Author: John Steven McGroarty
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Wander Songs
Author: John Steven McGroarty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The Songs of Zion
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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I Wonder as I Wander
Author: Ron Pen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813125987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) is considered to be one of our nation’s most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, “Go ’Way from My Window,” basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician’s character and career. Using Niles’s own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as “Pretty Polly” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Niles’s preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of “Dean of American Balladeers,” and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles’s dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813125987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) is considered to be one of our nation’s most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, “Go ’Way from My Window,” basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician’s character and career. Using Niles’s own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as “Pretty Polly” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Niles’s preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of “Dean of American Balladeers,” and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles’s dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.
Navaho Myths, Prayers & Songs
Author: Washington Matthews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625584733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Collected here are stories, prayers, and songs of the Navaho people including A Tale of Kininaékai, A Prayer of the Second Day of the Night Chant, A Prayer of the Fourth Day of the Night Chant, The Story of Bekotsidi, and Protection Song (to be sung on going into battle).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625584733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Collected here are stories, prayers, and songs of the Navaho people including A Tale of Kininaékai, A Prayer of the Second Day of the Night Chant, A Prayer of the Fourth Day of the Night Chant, The Story of Bekotsidi, and Protection Song (to be sung on going into battle).
Standard Songs and Choruses for High Schools
Author: Marie Florence McConnell
Publisher:
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Category : Choral music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
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Category : Choral music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Song Index
Author: Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher:
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Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Song Index
Author: Phyllis Crawford
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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American Indian Love Lyrics, and Other Verse, from the Songs of the North American Indians
Author: Nellie Barnes
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Wandering Singer and His Songs, and Other Poems
Author: F. Hodgman
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Songs and Ballads
Author:
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Category : Songs (Medium voice), Unaccompanied
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (Medium voice), Unaccompanied
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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