|

|
Life Flows On In Endless Song
By: Wells, Robert (Author).
University of Illinois Press. Published: 25/10/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade). Paperback. Sourced from U.S.A.
"A historian with a deep interest in and knowledge of folk music, Wells provides interesting insights about folk songs' potential to make American social history more accessible to students and general readers." Norm Cohen, author of Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0252076508/9780252076503
TITLE: Life Flows on in Endless Song CONTRIBUTORS: Wells, Robert (Author) IMPRINT: University of Illinois Press PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press FORMAT: Paperback PUBLICATION DATE: 25/10/2009
SUBJECT: Music, Folk PAGES: 240 AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade) ILLUSTRATIONS: 1 table CONTENTS: Preface: Chapter 1: Who Was Tom Dooley?: History and Folk Songs 1; Chapter 2: Careless Love: Courtship, Marriage, and Children 14; Chapter 3: "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory": Of God and Country 57; Chapter 4: "Take This Hammer": Work and the Labor Movement 105; Chapter 5: The Man Who Never Returned: Ships, Trains and Other Transportation 150; Chapter 6: Just Lookin' for a Home: Traveling On 190; Chapter 7: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Hard Times and Hard Men 231; Chapter 8: How Can I Keep from Singing?: Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie 277; Coda: Thinking about Folk Songs 307; Bibliography and Discography 321
|
|
Featured Product

Apocalytic Love (Deluxe Edition)
Slash. NZ$29.95.
|