Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History

Wells, Robert V.

ISBN 10: 0252034554 / ISBN 13: 9780252034558

Edité par University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 2009

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2009 1st Printing. Near Fine to Fine Hardback Book with No Dust Jacket. Like new except for tiny bump to bottom of spine. 245pp. Sm4to. (BB). N° de réf. du vendeur 016157

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Titre : Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs ...

Éditeur : University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL

Date d'édition : 2009

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket

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"Life Flows on in Endless Song" explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Robert V. Wells discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another. Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, Wells investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow. He also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Featuring a selective discography of key recordings, this book offers an accessible model for using folk songs as a richly evocative reflection of the American past.