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Author : Edna Worthley Underwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Songs from the Plains written by Edna Worthley Underwood and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496240820
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Love Song to the Plains written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues—courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish—their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.
Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803283299
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plains Song written by Wright Morris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This narrative, which on its surface is an account of three generations of women (and a few of their men) living on the plains of Nebraska ... only gets more strange and beautiful the more you look at it, like a photograph that slowly reveals its truth under very close inspection."--Introduction, p. [v].
Author : Edna Worthley Underwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330686362
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Songs from the Plains (Classic Reprint) written by Edna Worthley Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Songs From the Plains This volume of verses is called "Songs from the Plains" - not because of any especial applicability as regards content, but because the verses it contains were written upon the plains when the writer was about twenty years old. The verses belonging to a later period are the sketches made in New Orleans and Kansas City, the sonnet written in the British Museum, the improvisation to Kubelik, "The Book of the White Peacocks," and West Indian verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William K. Powers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816513659
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book War Dance written by William K. Powers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from a thirty year study, this volume provides a look at the history and culture of the Plains Indians
Author : Twyla M. Hansen
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ISBN 13 : 9781935218241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dirt Songs written by Twyla M. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.
Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209400X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Beautiful Music All Around Us written by Stephen Wade and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by. Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on "the Library's recording machine" in a rendering of "Rock Island Line"; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme "Pullin' the Skiff"; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into "Glory in the Meetinghouse." Alongside loving and expert profiles of these performers and their locales and communities, Wade also untangles the histories of these iconic songs and tunes, tracing them through slave songs and spirituals, British and homegrown ballads, fiddle contests, gospel quartets, and labor laments. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy. Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in The Beautiful Music All Around Us bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The hardcover edition also includes an accompanying CD that presents these thirteen performances, songs and sounds of America in the 1930s and '40s.
Author : Cuthbert Wilkinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Songs of the Plains and Other Poems written by Cuthbert Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Robert Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Songs of the Hills and Plains written by Harry Robert Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726934
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plainsong written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
