Download or read book Folk Like Me written by K.M. Lucchese and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of the saints are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. But this collection appeals to both groups with a combination of gentle humor and frankness – battle-tested at the author’s weekly chapel services at the school where she teaches. It’s organized into two full school years, with each saint’s story falling on or near his or her special day so that each story can be a springboard to a creative seasonal teaching unit or small festival. Saints represent a wide variety of ethnic and geographic backgrounds.
Download or read book Baby Let Me Follow You Down written by Eric Von Schmidt and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music. Compiled by two musicians who were active participants in the Cambridge folk scene, the volume documents a special time in United States culture when the honesty and vitality of traditional folk music were combined with the raw power of urban blues and the high energy of electric rock and roll to create a new American popular music.
Download or read book Folk Visions Voices written by Art Rosenbaum and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Folk lore and Fable written by Aesop and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling - The Swineherd - The Emperor's New Clothes - The Little Sea-Maid - The Elfin Mound - The Wild Swans - The Garden of Paradise - The Constant Tin Soldier - The Daisy - The Nightingale - The Storks - The Darning-Needle - The Shadow - The Red Shoes - Little Ida's Flowers - The Angel - The Flying Trunk - The Tinder-Box - The Buckwheat - The Bell.
Download or read book Finding Charity s Folk written by Jessica Millward and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
Download or read book Poor Folk written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor third cousins twice removed. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later in communicating with Devushkin after a rich widower Mr. Bykov proposes to her.
Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry. He reveals both the remarkable adaptability of these tales and how each variation reflects cultural and historical changes. Fairy tales, legends, folk songs, riddles, nursery rhymes, and proverbs are passed from generation to generation, changing both in form and meaning with each use. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Download or read book Always a Song written by Ellen Harper and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more. • Harper takes readers on an intimate journey through the folk music revival. • The book spans a transformational time in music, history, and American culture. • Covers historical events from the love-ins, women's rights protests, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the popularization of the sitar and the ukulele. • Includes full-color photo insert. "Growing up, an endless stream of musicians and artists came from across the country to my family's music store. Bess Lomax Hawes, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee—all the singers, organizers, guitar and banjo pickers and players, songwriters, painters, dancers, their husbands, wives, and children—we were all in it together. And we believed singing could change the world."—Ellen Harper Music lovers and history buffs will enjoy this rare invitation into a world of stories and song that inspired folk music today. • A must-read for lovers of music, history, and those nostalgic for the acoustic echo of the original folk music that influenced a generation • Harper's parents opened the legendary Folk Music Center in Claremont, California, as well as the revered folk music venue The Golden Ring. • A perfect book for people who are obsessed with folk music, all things 1960s, learning about musical movements, or California history • Great for those who loved Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns; and Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller.
Download or read book The Folk lore Record written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negro Folk Music U S A written by Harold Courlander and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough, well-researched exploration of the origins and development of a rich and varied African American musical tradition features authentic versions of over 40 folk songs. These include such time-honored selections as "Wake Up Jonah," "Rock Chariot," "Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone," "Traveling Shoes," "It's Getting Late in the Evening," "Dark Was the Night," "I'm Crossing Jordan River," "Russia, Let That Moon Alone," "Long John," "Rosie," "Motherless Children," three versions of "John Henry," and many others. One of the first and best surveys in its field, Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. has long been admired for its perceptive history and analysis of the origins and musical qualities of typical forms, ranging from simple cries and calls to anthems and spirituals, ballads, and the blues. Traditional dances and musical instruments are examined as well. The author — a well-known novelist, folklorist, journalist, and specialist in African and African American cultures — offers a discerning study of the influence of this genre on popular music, with particular focus on how jazz developed out of folk traditions.
Download or read book Folk songs of the North Countrie written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 140 Folk tunes written by Archibald Thompson Davison and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The folk lore record written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Library of Poetry and Song written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Lore and Legends North American Indian written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian" by anonymous contains a collection of tales from several different Native American Indian cultures. The book is appropriate for readers of all ages and contains the following stories: Moowis, The Girl who Married the Pine-tree, A Legend of Manabozho, Pauppukkeewis, The Discovery of the Upper World, The Boy who Snared the Sun, The Maid in the Box, The Spirits and the Lovers, The Wonderful Rod, The Funeral Fire, The Legend of O-na-wut-a-qut-o, Manabozho in the Fish's Stomach, The Sun and the Moon, The Snail and the Beaver, The Strange Guests, Manabozho and his Toe, The Girl who Became a Bird, The Undying Head, The Old Chippeway, Mukumik! Mukumik! Mukumik!, The Swing by the Lake, The Fire Plume, The Journey to the Island of Souls, Machinitou, the Evil Spirit, The Woman of Stone, The Maiden who Loved a Fish, The Lone Lightning, Aggo-dah-gauda, Piqua, The Evil Maker, Manabozho the Wolf, The Man-fish.
Download or read book English Etymology written by Friedrich Kluge and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives Complete written by United States Work Projects Administration and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My folks allus belongs to the Cavins and wore their name till after 'mancipation. Pa and ma was named Freeman and Amelia Cavin and Massa Dave fotches them to Texas from Alabama, along with ma's mother, what we called Maria. "The Cavins allus thunk lots of their niggers and Grandma Maria say, 'Why shouldn't they—it was their money.' She say there was plenty Indians here when they settled this country and they bought and traded with them without killin' them, if they could. The Indians was poor folks, jus' pilfer and loaf 'round all the time. The niggers was a heap sight better off than they was, 'cause we had plenty to eat and a place to stay. "Young Massa Tom was my special massa and he still lives here. Old Man Dave seemed to think more of his niggers than anybody and we thunk lots of our white folks. My pa was leader on the farm, and there wasn't no overseer or driver. When pa whip a nigger he needn't go to Massa Dave, but pa say, 'Go you way, you nigger. Freeman didn't whip you for nothin'.' Massa Dave allus believe pa, 'cause he tells the truth. "One time a peddler come to our house and after supper he goes to see 'bout his pony. Pa done feed that pony fifteen ears of corn. The peddler tell massa his pony ain't been fed nothin', and massa git mad and say, 'Be on you way iffen you gwine 'cuse my niggers of lyin'.' "We had good quarters and plenty to eat. I 'members when I's jus' walkin' round good pa come in from the field at night and taken me out of bed and dress me and feed me and then play with me for hours. Him bein' leader, he's gone from 'fore day till after night. The old heads got out early but us young scraps slep' till eight or nine o'clock, and don't you think Massa Dave ain't comin' round to see we is fed. I 'members him like it was yest'day, comin' to the quarters with his stick and askin' us, 'Had your breakfas'?' We'd say, 'Yes, suh.' Then he'd ask if we had 'nough or wanted any more. It look like he taken a pleasure in seein' us eat. At dinner, when the field hands come in, it am the same way. He was sho' that potlicker was fill as long as the niggers want to eat. "The hands worked from sun to sun. Massa give them li'l crops and let them work them on Saturday. Then he bought the stuff and the niggers go to Jefferson and buy clothes and sech like. Lots saved money and bought freedom 'fore the war was over. "We went to church and first the white preacher preached and then he larns our cullud preachers. I seed him ordain a cullud preacher and he told him to allus be honest. When the white preacher laid his hand on him, all the niggers git to hollerin' and shoutin' and prayin' and that nigger git scart mos' to death.
