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  • Folk Song Style and Culture

    by Alan Lomax ...
    Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • American Ballads and Folk Songs

    by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    "A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times.With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Our Singing Country

    Folk Songs and Ballads

    Edited by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    In the 1930s and 40s, a father-and-son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke joints, prison yards, and other out-of-the-way places to listen to native singers and to record ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection

    by Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection Anne Warner Anne Warner, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven ...
    Starting in the late 1930s, writer Anne and her husband and musician Frank Warner traveled along the Eastern Seaboard, from the Adirondacks to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, collecting folk songs they would perform, document, research, and lecture on. This decade-spanning work led to the Warners’ development of a nearly one-thousand-song archive, one of the defining collections of American ... Read more

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  • Mules and Men

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    Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of *Mules and Men*features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the ... Read more

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    by Paul Laurence Dunbar ...
    Series Book 70 - Delphi Poets Series
    The first black writer in America to attain national prominence and establish an international reputation, Paul Laurence Dunbar is noted for his works written in black dialect. However, Dunbar also wrote in conventional English, producing sensitive and compelling poetry and fashioning innovative fiction. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Dunbar’s complete works, with ... Read more

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