Wayfaring Strangers

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469666278
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayfaring Strangers written by Fiona Ritchie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476710813
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayfaring Stranger written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life. In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein—a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business. In just a few years’ time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless act yet—one inspired by that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth. A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger “is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dream” (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).

Author : Richie Unterberger
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781617744815
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers written by Richie Unterberger and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Mazor
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613733887
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Enhanced Edition) written by Barry Mazor and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and fifty-year career, from the age of cylinder recordings to the stereo era, of the man who pioneered the recording, marketing, and publishing of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music. The book tracks Peer’s role in such breakthrough events as the recording of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (the record that sparked the blues craze), the first country recording sessions with Fiddlin’ John Carson, his discovery of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family at the famed Bristol sessions, the popularizing of Latin American music during World War II, and the postwar transformation of music on the airwaves that set the stage for the dominance of R&B, country, and rock ‘n’ roll. But this is also the story of a man from humble midwestern beginnings who went on to build the world’s largest independent music publishing firm, fostering the global reach of music that had previously been specialized, localized, and marginalized. Ralph Peer redefined the ways promising songs and performers were identified, encouraged, and promoted, rethought how far regional music might travel, and changed our very notions of what pop music can be. This enhanced e-book includes 49 of the greatest songs Ralph Peer was involved with, from groundbreaking numbers that changed the history of recorded music to revelatory obscurities, all linked to the text so that the reader can hear the music while reading about it.

Author : Burl Ives
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204898
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayfaring Stranger written by Burl Ives and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls “the greatest folk ballad singer of them all,” is as fresh and wholesome as a summer’s breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. His ballads have long been an authentic expression of his land and its people—songs his grandmother taught him in the Midwestern farm country, songs remembered by old-timers in small towns all over the land, songs he heard hobos singing—songs we have come to know and love. In Wayfaring Stranger, writing in the stirring imaginative language of the ballad, Burt Ives tells of a night spent in a haystack with a pig, and of a brief fight with a railroad cop on top of a boxcar. He hitched a ride with Al Capone’s master bootlegger; he barely escaped the clutches of an old maid in Maine; he fell in love on a Great Lakes steamer; he played for evangelists and politicians; in speakeasies and public parks. Always he listened to the people, and he learned their songs. Anywhere he could get an audience, he sang his ballads: Barbara Allen, The Riddle Song, Fair Eleanor, Old Smokey, Silver Dagger, Foggy Foggy Dew. Now in Wayfaring Stranger, he has written his own story—as warm and appealing as the songs he sings. “It’s a fine book, warm, and full-bided, like Burl himself. Burl gives the reader the combination which is in everything he sings: a sense of dignity without pretentiousness, of simplicity without sentimentality. He makes the folk feeling richly alive. Some of his little character sketches remind me of the unforgettable etchings in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg. In short, Burl tells stories just the way he plays and sings—naturally, unaffectedly, poignantly.”—Louis Untermeyer

Author : Shrshtee Choudhary
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wayfaring Strangers written by Shrshtee Choudhary and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debuting book of the author captures the essense of lively hood in a spectacular manner, What's in a mind of a young girl about loss, death, heartbreak, love, grief, rage, with such vivid imagary and refferances of the sun and the moon along with the stars and witches, blood, and violence in an melodic epifany that is likely to resonate with its readers A poundaring of beauty, death, life and morality and truely A journey from start to end.

Author : Emma John
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474606851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayfaring Stranger written by Emma John and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known? Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming? Answering that question takes Emma deep into the Appalachian mountains, where she uncovers a hidden culture that confounds every expectation - and learns some emotional truths of her own.

Author : Bill Cullen
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856354008
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's a Long Way from Penny Apples written by Bill Cullen and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of the number one best-seller that made Bill Cullen a household name. The Bill Cullen story is an account of incredible poverty and deprivation in the Dublin slums. It highlights the frustration of a mother and father feeling their relationship crumble as they fight to give their children a better life. It's a story of courage, joy and happiness. Of how a mother gave inspiration and values to her children saying, 'The best thing I can give you is the independence to stand on your own feet'.

Author : Greg Kotis
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822223603
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Santa written by Greg Kotis and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Santa Claus is tired of the lies. Like the gods of old, he, too, has his mortal mistresses. This Christmas Eve he will bring Mary, his favorite earthly consort, and Luke and Freya, their illegitimate, semi-divine children, back to his No

Author : Brian Temple
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786494077
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement written by Brian Temple and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, sparked by their religious beliefs, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves. Once they rejected slavery, the Quakers then began to petition the state and Federal governments to do the same. When those in power turned a blind eye to the suffering of those enslaved, the Quakers used both legal and, in the eyes of the government, illegal means to fight slavery. This determination to stand against slavery led some Quakers to join with others to be a part of the Underground Railroad. The transition from friend to foe of slavery was not a quick one but one that nevertheless was ahead of the rest of America.