Cowboy Songs (Classic Reprint): And Other Frontier Ballads - Couverture souple

Lomax, John A. Avery

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440050171 ISBN 13 : 9781440050176

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the heart of the American West through cowboy songs and frontier ballads.

This collection presents native American ballads from the Southwest and frontier songs that lived in mining camps, ranches, and cattle trails. It sheds light on how these verses reflect pioneer life, work, humor, and the enduring figure of the cowboy.

Arranged to be accessible for modern readers, the book invites you to hear a direct voice from the road—rugged, vivid, and rooted in real experience—without assuming polish or prestige. It pairs wide-ranging lyrics with context that helps explain how these songs shaped and echoed life on the range.

• Discover authentic frontier songs that capture daily work, travel, and camp life.
• Understand how oral tradition kept popular culture alive in isolated western camps.
• Explore the iconography and atmosphere of the cowboy era through vivid verses.
• See how collectors and scholars frame these songs within American literary history.

Ideal for readers of American folk music, Western history, and cultural storytelling.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is now four or five years since my attention was called to the collection of native American ballads from the Southwest, already begun by Professor Lomax. At that time, he seemed hardly to appreciate their full value and importance. To my colleague, Professor G. L. Kittredge, probably the most eminent authority on folk-song in A merica, this value and importance appeared as indubitable as it appeared to me. We heartily joined in encouraging the work, as a real contribution both to literature and to learning. The present volume is the first published result of these efforts. The value and importance of the work seems to mc double. One phase of it is perhaps too highly special ever to be popular. Whoever has begun the inexhaustibly fascinating study of popular song and literature of the nameless poetry which vigorously lives through the centuries must be perplexed by the necessarily conjectural opinions concerning its origin and development held by various and disputing scholars.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440050171
• ISBN 13: 9781440050176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 444
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible