American ballads and folk songs

by Kittredge, George Lyman Lomax, Alan Lomax, John A., (John Avery)

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Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, and more.

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Title Statements

Full title :American ballads and folk songs / [compiled by] John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax ; with a foreword by George Lyman Kittredge.

Summary

Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, and more.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dover
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

Notes

Unacc.

Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1934.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxix pages, 625 pages of music ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0486282767, 9780486282763
oclc:ocm30518254
LC Classification:M1629
Dewey Decimal:784.497

Adieu to Bon Country ; Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis ; Alabama-bound ; All the pretty little horses ; Allá en el rancho grande ; Amazing grace ; Arizona ; The Arkansas traveler ; Aurore Pradère ; Bad man ballad ; The ballad of Davy Crockett ; Ballad of the Erie Canal ; Ye ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar ; De ballit of de boll weevil ; The banks of the Pamanaw ; The bear in the hill ; Bear the news, Mary ; Beautiful ; Benny Havens, Oh ; Big Jim ; Bill Martin and Ella Speed ; Billy Boy ; Billy the Kid ; The black ball line ; Black Betty ; Black-eyed Susie ; De black gal ; Blin' man stood on de way an' cried ; Blow the man down ; The Boston come-all-ye ; Braddock's defeat ; Brigham Young ; The buccaneers ; Bucking bronco ; The buffalo skinners ; The bull-whacker ; Bung yer eye ; Burges ; Captain Robert Kidd ; Casey Jones ; Charley Snyder ; The cholly blues ; Coming around the Horn ; The company cook ; The Connecticut peddler ; Constitution and Guerrière ; Cornfield holler ; Cotton field song ; Cotton-eyed Joe ; Cowboy boasting chants ; Cowboy to pitching bronco ; The cowboy's dream ; Cowboys' getting'-up holler ; Criole Candjo ; Crossing the plains ; Crows in the garden ; The Cryder…

Subjects

African Americans African Americans -- Music Ballads Ballads, English Ballads, English -- United States Folk music Folk music -- United States Folk songs, English Folk songs, English -- United States Music Musique folklorique -- États-Unis Musique notée Noirs américains -- Musique Notated music United States