Singing Family Of The Cumberlands

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Family of the Cumberlands written by Jean Ritchie and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an American folk-singer, who grew up in the Cumberland mountains. With the words and music of many songs.

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813101866
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Family of the Cumberlands written by Jean Ritchie and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1988-08-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "singing family" of which Jean Ritchie writes is that of her parents, Balis and Abigail Ritchie, and their fourteen children, all born and reared in Viper, Kentucky, deep in the Cumberland Mountains. Jean, the youngest of the clan, grew up to be a world renowned folksinger. But she was hardly unique in the family. All the Ritchies sang -- when they worked, when they prayed, when they rejoiced, even when tragedy struck. Singing Family of the Cumberlands is both an appealing account of family life and a treasury of American folklore and folksong. In the deceptively simple but picturesque language of rural Kentucky, Jean Ritchie tells of a way of life now nearly vanished and of a gentle, upright people shielded from the outside world by forbidding mountain ranges, preserving the traditions of their forebears. Foremost among those traditions were the British folksongs brought from England by James Ritchie in 1768. Even in a region noted for its wealth of folksongs, the Ritchies' inheritance was exceptional. Forty-two of the family's beloved songs are woven through Jean Ritchie's narrative, complete with words and often musical scores. Each song evokes a memory for Jean -- hoeing corn, stirring off molasses, telling ghost stories, singing a dying baby to its eternal rest. Songs lightened the burden of poverty for the Ritchies and brought them joy and solace. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Singing Family of the Cumberlands will delight readers in all walks of life.

Author : Burt Feintuch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187990
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folkmusic written by Burt Feintuch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, a fundraising program for Berea College featured a group of students from the mountains of eastern Kentucky singing traditional songs from their homes. The audience was entranced. That small en-counter at the end of the last century lies near the beginning of an unparalleled national—and international—fascination with the indigenous music of a single state. Kentucky has long figured prominently in our national sense of traditional music. Over the years, a diverse group of people—reformers, enthusiasts, the musically literate and the musically illiterate, radicals, liberals, a British gentleman and his woman companion, amateurs, local residents, and academics—have been sufficiently captivated by that music to have devoted considerable energy to harvesting it from its fertile ground, studying its various manifestations, and considering its many performers. Kentucky Folkmusic: An Annotated Bibliography is a guide to the literature of this remarkable music. More than seven hundred entries, each with an evaluative annotation, comprise the largest bibliographic resource for the folkmusic of any state or region in North America. Divided into eight sections, the bibliography covers collections and anthologies; fieldworkers and scholars; singers, musicians, and other performers; text-centered studies; studies of history, context, and style; festivals; dance; and discographies, check-lists, and other reference tools. A subject index, an author index, and an index of periodicals provide access to the materials. From early hymnals and songsters to Kentucky performers of traditional music, the bibliography is a comprehensive guide to music which has for many years been one of the major emblems of American traditional music.

Author : James H Taylor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491872527
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University of the Cumberlands written by James H Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alumni record as of date of last alumni directory,2011, categorized in 125 career categories; individual biographical information on around350 alumni whose stories have been told in the past alumni magazine or other University /College publications

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753845
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing in Zion: Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family (p) written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cochran has included an appendix of over eighty songs that range from well-known folk material like "Sweet Lorraine" and "Barbara Allen" to lesser-known songs such as "The Frozen Girl" and "Seven Years with the Wrong Man." The sisters' comments reveal the personal connections they have established with the songs.

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786460199
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Children's Literature written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, including portions of 13 states stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accompanied by an annotation, most of which include composite reviews and critical analyses of the work. All classic genres of children's literature are represented.

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820325511
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers written by Bill C. Malone and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211026
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women written by James R. Briscoe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains vocal and instrumental music composed by women during the 20th Century.

Author : Kenneth Clarke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189039
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvest and the Reapers written by Kenneth Clarke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oral tradition of Kentucky is one of the most rich and interesting in the nation and has attracted a number of outstanding men and women—scholars and writers, teachers and singers—who have devoted their energies to Kentucky's folk and their ways. Some have collected examples of the state's unique speech patterns and word usages. Others have recorded local place names and the legends that surround them, or the yarns and tall tales transmitted from one generation to the next. Musicians have sought the authentic mountain folk songs, both old and new, and gifted writers have woven details of their Kentucky upbringing into poems, novels, and stories. The Harvest and the Reapers illuminates the work of those who labor tirelessly to preserve Kentucky's oral history and traditions.

Author : Ronald D. lankford
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 0857124978
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Voice Of Prostest Music written by Ronald D. lankford and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2005-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Voice of Protest Music is the definitive story of American folk music, focussing on how a minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a generation at the end of the Eisenhower years. From Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" in 1958 to Bob Dylan's electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, folk music wove itself from American culture and grew to define it, influencing the hippie '60s, Civil Rights demonstrations and brewing anti-war sentiment before eventually becoming absorbed into popular music. The author also explores how authentic folk is now experiencing a second revival, taking its place in our contemporary fascination with roots music and modern ideals of equality, justice nad social unrest.