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Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society (West Virginia Classics ) by John Harrington Cox, Alan Jabbour is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__Folk-Songs of the South:__ __Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society__ is a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources. Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection archives a range of styles and genres, from English and Scottish ballads to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the American West, boat and railroad transportation, children’s play-party and dance music, and songs from African American singers, including post-Civil war popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. With a new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.

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Author

John Harrington Cox, Alan Jabbour

Publisher

West Virginia Classics

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938228704

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Literary Fiction, Arts