Download or read book Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee ... is superior to most collections because Boswell cast a wide net in his collecting, recording many items from people not usually thought of as folksingers, and because, unlike most collectors of his day, he was equally skilled at music and lyric transcription". -- W. K. McNeil, The Ozark Folk Center This volume brings together, for the first time, more than one hundred traditional songs from Middle Tennessee -- a region that is synonymous in the popular mind with music but one that has been curiously neglected in folksong scholarship. The songs presented here were originally collected in the late 1940s and early 1950s by George Boswell, a distinguished scholar and field researcher who died in 1995. While living in Nashville, Boswell scoured the city and surrounding counties for old ballads and folk songs. Sometimes using a wire or tape recorder, at other times employing a stenographer, he visited numerous singers and transcribed the words and tunes to hundreds of songs. Even after moving from Tennessee to assume a teaching position at the University of Mississippi, Boswell continued to work on his collection, annotating and comparing texts, and publishing occasional samples. In 1950, he noted that Tennessee, virtually alone among southern states, had no published collection of its folk songs. That has remained the case until now. The songs chosen for this book are presented with musical notation and extensive backgound notes, including biographical data on the original informants (many of whom were business and professional people) and fascinating histories of each song. A number of the songs are rare and previously uncollected; others arelocal variants of long-popular ballads. The publication of this volume -- the first major collection of southern folk songs in many years -- is not only a testament to Boswell's scholarship but a marvelous contribution to our understanding of southern folk culture and

Download or read book Memory Melodies written by Lucien L. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory Melodies written by Lucien L. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tennessee Folk Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tennessee Folk Songs written by George W. Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tennessee Strings written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces the vital role played by Tennessee and its musicians in the development of this unique American art form.

Download or read book Songs of the Old Camp Ground written by Lucien L. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Songs of the Old Camp Ground written by Lucien L. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore Society written by Tennessee Folklore Society and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music (unaccompanied melodies)

Download or read book A Collection of Folklore from Soddy Tennessee written by Alma Bond Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians written by Cecil J. Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It remains one of the foundational collections of American folk music.

Download or read book Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bulletin of the Tennessee Folklore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Folk songs and Folk tales of Cannon County Tennessee written by Robert L. Mason and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nashville Music Before Country written by Tim Sharp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville is a name synonymous with music. Years before the first radio broadcast of country music from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, music and publishing were central to Nashville's self-identity. Thousands of songs flooded into the Cumberland and Tennessee River valleys from Southern Appalachia, sung by folk performers. These songs became the foundation for the folk-hymn traditions that grew throughout Tennessee. Into this stream flowed a body of African American spirituals, gospel, and minstrel songs. The arrival of trained German musicians brought classical styles to this gathering stream of musical confluences. These musicians found a home in the academies and businesses of Nashville. Nashville Music before Country is the story of how music merged with education, publication, entertainment, and distribution to set the stage for a unique musical metropolis. The images for Nashville Music before Country come from private collections as well as public libraries and archives.

Download or read book Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin written by Tennessee Folklore Society and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Singing Army written by Kim Ruehl and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as “We Shall Overcome” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Her contributions to the Highlander Folk School, a pivotal center of the labor and civil rights movements in the mid-twentieth century, and her work creating the songbook of the labor movement influenced countless figures, from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Despite her outsized impact, Horton’s story is little known. A Singing Army introduces this overlooked figure to the world. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, as well as numerous interviews with Horton's family and friends, Kim Ruehl chronicles her life from her childhood in Arkansas coal country, through her formative travels and friendship with radical Presbyterian minister Claude C. Williams, and into her instrumental work in desegregation and fostering the music of the civil rights era. Revealing these experiences—as well as her unconventional marriage and controversial death by poisoning—A Singing Army tells the story of an all-but-forgotten woman who inspired thousands of working-class people to stand up and sing for freedom and equality.