Early Songs of Uncle Sam

Early Songs of Uncle Sam
Author: George S. Jackson
Publisher: Branden Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1993-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780828314633

A collection of songs popular in the US one hundred years ago, and as such the collection furnishes a most illuminating picture of the life of those times.

Early Songs of Uncle Sam

Early Songs of Uncle Sam
Author: George Stuyvesant Jackson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014205896

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Author: Ellen Luchinsky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1384
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135659265

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

Taboo Tunes

Taboo Tunes
Author: Peter Blecha
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879307929

In this extensively researched ode to scandal, historian and musician Blecha recounts the travails of the musicians and songs that have dared to push the hot-button topics that polite society has deemed unacceptable.

An American Icon

An American Icon
Author: Winifred Morgan
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780874133073

The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author: Alan Lomax
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 674
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780486282763

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Sounds American

Sounds American
Author: Ann Ostendorf
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820341363

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras. During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture emerged as a way to bind together the varied, changing, and uncertain components of the new nation. This played out with particular intensity in the lower Mississippi River valley, and New Orleans especially. Ann Ostendorf argues that this region, often considered an exception to the nation—with its distance from the center of power, its non-British colonial past, and its varied population—actually shared characteristics of many other places eventually incorporated into the country, thus making it a useful case study for the creation of American culture. Ostendorf conjures the territory’s phenomenally diverse “music ways” including grand operas and balls, performances by church choirs and militia bands, and itinerant violin instructors. Music was often associated with “foreigners,” in particular Germans, French, Irish, and Africans. For these outsiders, music helped preserve collective identity. But for critics concerned with developing a national culture, this multitude of influences presented a dilemma that led to an obsessive categorization of music with racial, ethnic, or national markers. Ultimately, the shared experience of categorizing difference and consuming this music became a unifying national phenomenon. Experiencing the unknown became a shared part of the American experience.

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills
Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780873955829

Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.