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"The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music
- Title
- "The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music / Ruth Crawford Seeger ; edited by Larry Polansky with Judith Tick ; with a historical introduction by Judith Tick, and forewords by Pete, Mike, and Peggy Seeger.
- Author
- Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- liv, 156 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; [17]
- Uniform Title
- Eastman studies in music ; v. 17.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Pete Seeger -- Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger's The Music of American Folk Song / Mike Seeger -- Foreword / Peggy Seeger -- Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down / Judith Tick -- Editor's Introduction / Larry Polansky -- The Music of American Folk Song / Ruth Crawford Seeger. I. A Note on Transcription. II. Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing. App. 1. Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song -- App. 2. List of Unpublished Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Archives -- App. 3. Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcriptions, from George Pullen Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals -- Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Editor's Introduction / Larry Polansky. Pre-School Children and American Folk Music (late 1940s?). Keep the Song Going! (1951). Review of John N. Work, American Negro Songs of Mixed Voice (1948).
- ISBN
- 158046095X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001035576
- OCLC
- ocm46909473
- SCSB-4232579
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries