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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 29 July 2009
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252076503
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 table 0
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Long description:
Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Robert V. Wells discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another. Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, Wells investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow. He also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Featuring a selective discography of key recordings, this book offers an accessible model for using folk songs as a richly evocative reflection of the American past.
MoreTable of Contents:
"Preface ix
CHAPTER 1
Who Was Tom Dooley? History and Folk Songs 1
CHAPTER 2
Careless Love: Courtship, Marriage, and Children 9
CHAPTER 4
""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": Of God and Country 35
CHAPTER 5
The Man Who Never Returned: Ships, Trains, and Other Transportation 96
CHAPTER 6
Just Lookin' for a Home: Traveling On 121
CHAPTER 7
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Hard Times and Hard Men 147
CHAPTER 8
How Can I Keep from Singing?
Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie 175
Coda: Thinking about Folk Songs 195
Notes 205
Select Bibliography and Discography 225
Index 233"
