Folk Visions and Voices

Folk Visions and Voices
Title Folk Visions and Voices PDF eBook
Author Art Rosenbaum
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 261
Release 2013-10-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0820346136

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Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Folk Visions & Voices

Folk Visions & Voices
Title Folk Visions & Voices PDF eBook
Author Art Rosenbaum
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 256
Release 2013-10-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0820346497

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Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands

Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
Title Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands PDF eBook
Author
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 325
Release 1992-03-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0820323896

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A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social customs, and material culture. Collected over a period of nearly twenty-five years by Lydia Parrish, the sixty folk songs and attendant lore included in this book are evidence of antebellum traditions kept alive in the relatively isolated coastal regions of Georgia. Over the years, Parrish won the confidence of many of the African-American singers, not only collecting their songs but also discovering other elements of traditional culture that formed the context of those songs. When it was first published in 1942, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands contained much material that had not previously appeared in print. The songs are grouped in categories, including African survival songs; shout songs; ring-play, dance, and fiddle songs; and religious and work songs. In additions to the lyrics and melodies, Slave Songs includes Lydia Parrish's explanatory notes, character sketches of her informants, anecdotes, and a striking portfolio of photographs. Reproduced in its original oversized format, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands will inform and delight students and scholars of African-American culture and folklore as well as folk music enthusiasts.

Nanci Griffith's Other Voices

Nanci Griffith's Other Voices
Title Nanci Griffith's Other Voices PDF eBook
Author Nanci Griffith
Publisher Three Rivers Press (CA)
Pages 280
Release 1998
Genre Folk music
ISBN

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In a lively celebration of the contemporary folk music scene, Nanci Griffith tells the story of her music evolution and introduces the songwriters and performers who contributed to her Grammy Award-winning album, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and her new album, "Other Voices, Too: A Trip Back to Bountiful". 100 photos.

American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings

American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings
Title American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 210
Release
Genre Folk music
ISBN

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Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man
Title Wake Up Dead Man PDF eBook
Author Bruce Jackson
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 388
Release 1999
Genre Music
ISBN 9780820321585

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Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.

The Social Harp

The Social Harp
Title The Social Harp PDF eBook
Author John G. McCurry
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 2009
Genre Music
ISBN 9780820331515

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One of the rarest country songbooks, it contains 222 pieces, mostly folktune settings, dating from the time between the Revolution and the Civil War. This facsimile reprinting has appendices useful for the study of its sources and an introduction that throws light on the men who wrote for nineteenth-century American songsters.