Songs of the Workaday World (Classic Reprint)

Songs of the Workaday World (Classic Reprint)
Author: Berton Braley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781332198276

Excerpt from Songs of the Workaday World My thanks and acknowledgments are due to the following magazines and publishers for permission to use these poems in book form: The Saturday Evening Post, Technical World Magazine, Power, Harper's Weekly, The Edison Monthly, The American Machinist, Coming Nation, Popular Magazine, The Cavalier, Collier's Weekly, Adventure, Puck, McClure's Magazine, Newspaper Enterprise Association, La Follette's Weekly, Woman's World, Ainslee's Magazine, The Designer, and the New York Telephone Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Songbooks

Songbooks
Author: Eric Weisbard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 147802139X

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.