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"Available here for the first time is the remarkably diverse folk music of America's Upper Midwest, captured in field recordings by collectors for the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1946. This landmark multimedia work challenges and considerably broadens popular and scholarly understanding of folk music in American culture. Although Eastern, Southern, and Western musical traditions are familiar to fans of American roots music, the restored images and performances of Folksongs of Another America weave the songs and spirit of the Upper Midwest's peoples into the nation's folksong fabric. - 187 songs and tunes, digitally restored - Songs in more than 25 languages, with full original lyrics and English translations - More than 200 performers, with biographical notes and many photographs"--Publisher description.… (more)
waltzmn: Franz Rickaby's collection of lumberjack songs was the first real collection of folk songs from the Big Woods area of the Upper Midwest. Jame P. Leary's volume of songs which were field recorded in the area, produced almost a century later, documents many of the songs of the same region, and includes recordings. Anyone wanting to know about midwestern folk songs will want both books.… (more)
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In memory of my parents, Patricia Berigan Leary (1925-1992) and Warren Leary Jr. (1922-2009)
And for Janet, Bella, and Finn, who endured and sometimes even encouraged my mania to see this whole unruly thing through
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BUCKHORN BEGINNING A PREFACE It all began for me in the early 1950s in the Buckthorn, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
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Stratman-Thomas had no inkling of vikivaki and Þorrablót connections; nor did Sidney Robertson who, in May 1938, recorded a version from Icelandic immigrants in San Francisco.
"Available here for the first time is the remarkably diverse folk music of America's Upper Midwest, captured in field recordings by collectors for the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1946. This landmark multimedia work challenges and considerably broadens popular and scholarly understanding of folk music in American culture. Although Eastern, Southern, and Western musical traditions are familiar to fans of American roots music, the restored images and performances of Folksongs of Another America weave the songs and spirit of the Upper Midwest's peoples into the nation's folksong fabric. - 187 songs and tunes, digitally restored - Songs in more than 25 languages, with full original lyrics and English translations - More than 200 performers, with biographical notes and many photographs"--Publisher description.
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