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- Summary
- This book is an attempt to show how the story of the American people is revealed in their song; to provide an introduction to this national song heritage, and to indicate its extent, variety and beauty
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 404 pages ;
- Contents
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- I THE COLONIAL PERIOD: The British Heritage: Bawbee Allen
- I will give my love an apple
- The keys of Canterbury
- The sycamore tree
- The trees they grow so high (west of England)
- The bonny boy (Eire)
- The bonny lass o' Fyvie
- Lord Ronald
- Sir Patrick Spens
- Psalm 100 (a psalm of praise); Colonial Songs and Ballads: Soldier, soldier won't you marry me?
- Siubhail a Gradh
- Come, my love (Eire)
- Johnny has gone for a soldier (Hudson Valley)
- The death of General Wolfe
- Sweet William
- The old man who lived in the woods
- Springfield mountain
- The young man who couldn't hoe corn (The lazy man)
- Jenny Jenkins
- Katie cruel; II THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Young ladies in town
- The rich lady over the sea
- The folks on t'other side the wave
- Sir Peter Parker
- Nathan Hale
- The dying redcoat
- The battle of Trenton
- The fate of John Burgoyne
- The battle of the kegs
- Paul Jones's victory (Poor Richard and the serapis and alliance)
- The ballad of Major Andre
- Lord Cornwallis's surrender; III THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD: Caitilin ni uallachain (Cathaleen ni Houlihan)
- Green grow the rushes
- Jefferson and liberty
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- The bonny bunch of roses o
- The constitution and Guerriere
- The Chesapeake and the Shannon
- The hunters of Kentucky
- Johnny Bull, my Jo, John
- Mrs. McGrath; Sea and Immigration: Haul on the bowline
- Blood-red roses
- Leave her, Johnny, leave her
- The Golden Vanity
- Off to sea once more
- The Greenland whale fishery
- The banks of Newfoundland
- The praties they grow small
- Across the western ocean
- The farmer's curst wife (the devil and the farmer)
- The castle of Dromore (Caislean Droim an Oir)
- The pesky sarpent; IV THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT: The Wisconsin emigrant
- Hush, little baby
- Let's go a-huntin'
- Skip to my lou
- When I was single
- The single girl
- The lumberman's alphabet
- The jam on Gerry's rock
- Sioux Indians
- The fools of forty-nine
- Santy Anno
- The dying Californian; Slavery Days: Roll, Jordan, roll
- Sail, o believer
- Poor Rosy
- Bound to go
- Hushabye (All the pretty little horses)
- Sold off to Georgy
- Hangman, slack the line
- Lay this body down
- Jimmy Rose
- T'aint gonna rain no mo'
- The rose of Alabama; V THE CIVIL WAR: The northern bonny blue flag
- The bonny blue flag (Southern)
- Song of the southern volunteers
- Flag of the free
- The Yankee man o' war
- The homespun dress
- On to Richmond!
- General Lee's wooing
- What gives the wheat fields baldes of steel? ; Freedom Songs: Many thousand gone
- Oh, freedom!
- Song of the freedmen
- A plaint
- Roll, Alabama, roll
- Sherman's march to the sea
- The southern girl's reply; VI BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Farmers and Workers: Ride an old paint
- The Colorado trail
- Goodbye, Old Paint
- Brennan on the Moor
- The farmer is the man
- Peter Emberley
- Hard times in the mill
- The shoofly
- The Ludlow Massacre
- Solidarity forever; Immigrants: Ot azoy neyt a shnayder (weary days are a tailor's)
- Schlof mayn kind (sleep, my child)
- Mayn yingele (my little son)
- Papir iz doch vays (silver is the daylight)
- Son petit jupon (the little dress of gray)
- Isabeau s'y promene (Isabel); The Negro People: Pick a bale o' cotton
- No more cane on this brazos
- Another man done gone
- Godamighty drag
- No more, my lord
- Settin' side that road
- The ballad of the boll weevil
- Ragged and dirty blues
- yonder come day; VII BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS: When Johnny comes marching home
- Johnny, I hardly knew you
- Mademdoiselle from Armentieres
- Pack up your troubles
- Wandering
- Raggedy
- The mouse's courting song
- Which side are you on?
- We shall not be moved
- Goin' down the road
- Roll on, Columbia
- Discrimination blues
- We shall overcome
- Die moorsoldaten (peat-bog soldiers)
- Ot kraya i do kraya (from frontier to frontier)
- D-Day dodgers
- Partizaner Lid (the partisan); VIII SINCE THE WAR: Plane wreck at Los gatos
- In contempt
- Bull Connor's jail
- Keep on a-walkin'
- One man's hands
- Little boxes
- Label
- The ballad of America : the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs
- Title
- The ballad of America
- Title remainder
- the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Music. -- History and criticism
- American ballads and songs
- Ballads, English -- United States
- Folk music
- Folk music -- United States
- Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Folk songs, English -- United States
- Labor -- Songs and music
- Labor movement -- Songs and music
- Military music
- Music -- Social aspects
- Protest songs
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Songs and music | Songs and music
- Songs, English -- United States
- Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music
- United States -- History -- Poetry
- War songs -- United States
- West (U.S.) -- Songs and music
- Working class -- Songs and music
- Radicalism -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book is an attempt to show how the story of the American people is revealed in their song; to provide an introduction to this national song heritage, and to indicate its extent, variety and beauty
- Cataloging source
- ONT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1916-2010
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Scott, John Anthony
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Folk music
- Music
- Songs, English
- Ballads, English
- Folk songs, English
- Spirituals (Songs)
- African Americans
- West (U.S.)
- United States
- War songs
- United States
- African Americans
- Protest songs
- Folk music
- Radicalism
- Working class
- American ballads and songs
- Labor movement
- Labor
- Label
- The ballad of America : the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs
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- volume
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Content type code
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- Contents
- I THE COLONIAL PERIOD: The British Heritage: Bawbee Allen -- I will give my love an apple -- The keys of Canterbury -- The sycamore tree -- The trees they grow so high (west of England) -- The bonny boy (Eire) -- The bonny lass o' Fyvie -- Lord Ronald -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Psalm 100 (a psalm of praise); Colonial Songs and Ballads: Soldier, soldier won't you marry me? -- Siubhail a Gradh -- Come, my love (Eire) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (Hudson Valley) -- The death of General Wolfe -- Sweet William -- The old man who lived in the woods -- Springfield mountain -- The young man who couldn't hoe corn (The lazy man) -- Jenny Jenkins -- Katie cruel; II THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Young ladies in town -- The rich lady over the sea -- The folks on t'other side the wave -- Sir Peter Parker -- Nathan Hale -- The dying redcoat -- The battle of Trenton -- The fate of John Burgoyne -- The battle of the kegs -- Paul Jones's victory (Poor Richard and the serapis and alliance) -- The ballad of Major Andre -- Lord Cornwallis's surrender; III THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD: Caitilin ni uallachain (Cathaleen ni Houlihan) -- Green grow the rushes -- Jefferson and liberty -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- The bonny bunch of roses o -- The constitution and Guerriere -- The Chesapeake and the Shannon -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Johnny Bull, my Jo, John -- Mrs. McGrath; Sea and Immigration: Haul on the bowline -- Blood-red roses -- Leave her, Johnny, leave her -- The Golden Vanity -- Off to sea once more -- The Greenland whale fishery -- The banks of Newfoundland -- The praties they grow small -- Across the western ocean -- The farmer's curst wife (the devil and the farmer) -- The castle of Dromore (Caislean Droim an Oir) -- The pesky sarpent; IV THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT: The Wisconsin emigrant -- Hush, little baby -- Let's go a-huntin' -- Skip to my lou -- When I was single -- The single girl -- The lumberman's alphabet -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Sioux Indians -- The fools of forty-nine -- Santy Anno -- The dying Californian; Slavery Days: Roll, Jordan, roll -- Sail, o believer -- Poor Rosy -- Bound to go -- Hushabye (All the pretty little horses) -- Sold off to Georgy -- Hangman, slack the line -- Lay this body down -- Jimmy Rose -- T'aint gonna rain no mo' -- The rose of Alabama; V THE CIVIL WAR: The northern bonny blue flag -- The bonny blue flag (Southern) -- Song of the southern volunteers -- Flag of the free -- The Yankee man o' war -- The homespun dress -- On to Richmond! -- General Lee's wooing -- What gives the wheat fields baldes of steel? ; Freedom Songs: Many thousand gone -- Oh, freedom! -- Song of the freedmen -- A plaint -- Roll, Alabama, roll -- Sherman's march to the sea -- The southern girl's reply; VI BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Farmers and Workers: Ride an old paint -- The Colorado trail -- Goodbye, Old Paint -- Brennan on the Moor -- The farmer is the man -- Peter Emberley -- Hard times in the mill -- The shoofly -- The Ludlow Massacre -- Solidarity forever; Immigrants: Ot azoy neyt a shnayder (weary days are a tailor's) -- Schlof mayn kind (sleep, my child) -- Mayn yingele (my little son) -- Papir iz doch vays (silver is the daylight) -- Son petit jupon (the little dress of gray) -- Isabeau s'y promene (Isabel); The Negro People: Pick a bale o' cotton -- No more cane on this brazos -- Another man done gone -- Godamighty drag -- No more, my lord -- Settin' side that road -- The ballad of the boll weevil -- Ragged and dirty blues -- yonder come day; VII BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS: When Johnny comes marching home -- Johnny, I hardly knew you -- Mademdoiselle from Armentieres -- Pack up your troubles -- Wandering -- Raggedy -- The mouse's courting song -- Which side are you on? -- We shall not be moved -- Goin' down the road -- Roll on, Columbia -- Discrimination blues -- We shall overcome -- Die moorsoldaten (peat-bog soldiers) -- Ot kraya i do kraya (from frontier to frontier) -- D-Day dodgers -- Partizaner Lid (the partisan); VIII SINCE THE WAR: Plane wreck at Los gatos -- In contempt -- Bull Connor's jail -- Keep on a-walkin' -- One man's hands -- Little boxes
- Control code
- 516545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 404 pages ;
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (Sirsi) 516545
- Label
- The ballad of America : the history of the United States in the stories, the words and the music of more than 125 songs
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I THE COLONIAL PERIOD: The British Heritage: Bawbee Allen -- I will give my love an apple -- The keys of Canterbury -- The sycamore tree -- The trees they grow so high (west of England) -- The bonny boy (Eire) -- The bonny lass o' Fyvie -- Lord Ronald -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Psalm 100 (a psalm of praise); Colonial Songs and Ballads: Soldier, soldier won't you marry me? -- Siubhail a Gradh -- Come, my love (Eire) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (Hudson Valley) -- The death of General Wolfe -- Sweet William -- The old man who lived in the woods -- Springfield mountain -- The young man who couldn't hoe corn (The lazy man) -- Jenny Jenkins -- Katie cruel; II THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Young ladies in town -- The rich lady over the sea -- The folks on t'other side the wave -- Sir Peter Parker -- Nathan Hale -- The dying redcoat -- The battle of Trenton -- The fate of John Burgoyne -- The battle of the kegs -- Paul Jones's victory (Poor Richard and the serapis and alliance) -- The ballad of Major Andre -- Lord Cornwallis's surrender; III THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD: Caitilin ni uallachain (Cathaleen ni Houlihan) -- Green grow the rushes -- Jefferson and liberty -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- The bonny bunch of roses o -- The constitution and Guerriere -- The Chesapeake and the Shannon -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Johnny Bull, my Jo, John -- Mrs. McGrath; Sea and Immigration: Haul on the bowline -- Blood-red roses -- Leave her, Johnny, leave her -- The Golden Vanity -- Off to sea once more -- The Greenland whale fishery -- The banks of Newfoundland -- The praties they grow small -- Across the western ocean -- The farmer's curst wife (the devil and the farmer) -- The castle of Dromore (Caislean Droim an Oir) -- The pesky sarpent; IV THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT: The Wisconsin emigrant -- Hush, little baby -- Let's go a-huntin' -- Skip to my lou -- When I was single -- The single girl -- The lumberman's alphabet -- The jam on Gerry's rock -- Sioux Indians -- The fools of forty-nine -- Santy Anno -- The dying Californian; Slavery Days: Roll, Jordan, roll -- Sail, o believer -- Poor Rosy -- Bound to go -- Hushabye (All the pretty little horses) -- Sold off to Georgy -- Hangman, slack the line -- Lay this body down -- Jimmy Rose -- T'aint gonna rain no mo' -- The rose of Alabama; V THE CIVIL WAR: The northern bonny blue flag -- The bonny blue flag (Southern) -- Song of the southern volunteers -- Flag of the free -- The Yankee man o' war -- The homespun dress -- On to Richmond! -- General Lee's wooing -- What gives the wheat fields baldes of steel? ; Freedom Songs: Many thousand gone -- Oh, freedom! -- Song of the freedmen -- A plaint -- Roll, Alabama, roll -- Sherman's march to the sea -- The southern girl's reply; VI BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Farmers and Workers: Ride an old paint -- The Colorado trail -- Goodbye, Old Paint -- Brennan on the Moor -- The farmer is the man -- Peter Emberley -- Hard times in the mill -- The shoofly -- The Ludlow Massacre -- Solidarity forever; Immigrants: Ot azoy neyt a shnayder (weary days are a tailor's) -- Schlof mayn kind (sleep, my child) -- Mayn yingele (my little son) -- Papir iz doch vays (silver is the daylight) -- Son petit jupon (the little dress of gray) -- Isabeau s'y promene (Isabel); The Negro People: Pick a bale o' cotton -- No more cane on this brazos -- Another man done gone -- Godamighty drag -- No more, my lord -- Settin' side that road -- The ballad of the boll weevil -- Ragged and dirty blues -- yonder come day; VII BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS: When Johnny comes marching home -- Johnny, I hardly knew you -- Mademdoiselle from Armentieres -- Pack up your troubles -- Wandering -- Raggedy -- The mouse's courting song -- Which side are you on? -- We shall not be moved -- Goin' down the road -- Roll on, Columbia -- Discrimination blues -- We shall overcome -- Die moorsoldaten (peat-bog soldiers) -- Ot kraya i do kraya (from frontier to frontier) -- D-Day dodgers -- Partizaner Lid (the partisan); VIII SINCE THE WAR: Plane wreck at Los gatos -- In contempt -- Bull Connor's jail -- Keep on a-walkin' -- One man's hands -- Little boxes
- Control code
- 516545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 404 pages ;
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (Sirsi) 516545
Subject
- African Americans -- Music. -- History and criticism
- American ballads and songs
- Ballads, English -- United States
- Folk music
- Folk music -- United States
- Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Folk songs, English -- United States
- Labor -- Songs and music
- Labor movement -- Songs and music
- Military music
- Music -- Social aspects
- Protest songs
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Songs and music | Songs and music
- Songs, English -- United States
- Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music
- United States -- History -- Poetry
- War songs -- United States
- West (U.S.) -- Songs and music
- Working class -- Songs and music
- Radicalism -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
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