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- Book Title
- Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills
- ISBN
- 9781946684035
- Subject Area
- Music, History
- Publication Name
- Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills
- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Series
- Sounding Appalachia Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
ISBN-10
1946684031
ISBN-13
9781946684035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240502213
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Publication Name
Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills
Language
English
Subject
Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, History
Series
Sounding Appalachia Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"Patrick Gainer used his platform as a professor at West Virginia University to advocate vigorously for the preservation and dissemination of Appalachian culture, supporting the work of leading traditional musicians by documenting and presenting their work to others. Decades after his death, his work remains vitally important." Travis Stimeling, West Virginia University, "The songs in this volume have been collected in West Virginia over a period of fifty years, beginning in 1924. I wrote many of them down before the tape recorder came into use, from the singing of people who had preserved them in their family traditions for many generations. After 1950 most of the songs were recorded on tape recorders. But many of them had been recorded in my own mind when I was a small boy, from the singing of my grandfather." --From the introduction
Synopsis
First published in 1975 and long out of print , Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills is a major work of folklore poised to reach a new generation of readers. Drawing upon Patrick Ward Gainer's extensive ethnographic fieldwork around West Virginia, it contains dozens of significant folk songs, including not only the internationally famous "Child Ballads," but such distinctively West Virginian songs as "The West Virginia Farmer" and "John Hardy," among others. Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills stands out as a book with multiple audiences. As a musical text, it offers comparatively easy access to a rich variety of folk songs that could provide a new repertoire for Appalachian singers. As an ethnographic text, it has the potential to reintroduce significant data about the musical lives of many West Virginians into conversations around Appalachian music--discourses that are being radically reshaped by scholars working in folklore, ethnomusicology, and Appalachian studies. As a historical document, it gives readers a glimpse into the research methods commonly practiced by mid-twentieth-century folklorists. And when read in conjunction with John Harrington Cox's Folk Songs of the South (also available from WVU Press), it sheds important light on the significant role that West Virginia University has played in documenting the state's vernacular traditions., First published in 1975 and long out of print, Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills is a major work of folklore poised to reach a new generation of readers. Drawing on Patrick Ward Gainer's extensive ethnographic fieldwork around West Virginia, it contains dozens of significant folk songs, including the internationally famous and the distinctively West Virginian.
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