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Read an excerpt and listen to the songs featured in the book at (http://folksonghistory.com/) http://folksonghistory.com/ In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone." In Hear My Sad Story , Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists.Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg's accounts of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touc

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Author

Polenberg, Richard

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501701498

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Arts

Rating

3.64 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13