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The American songbag. / Carl Sandburg.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1629.S213 A5
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk songs, English--United States--Texts.
- Folk songs, English.
- United States.
- Ballads, English--United States.
- Ballads, English.
- Folk songs, English--United States.
- Songs, English--United States.
- Songs, English.
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Notated music.
- Penn Provenance:
- Delaney, Wm. W. (William W.) (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 495 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, music. ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1927]
- Contents:
- Dramas and portraits
- The Ould Sod
- Minstrel Song
- Tarnished Love Tales or Colonial and Revolutionary Antiques
- Frankie and her man
- Pioneer memories
- Kentucky Blazing Star
- The Lincolns and Hankses
- Great Lakes and Erie Canal
- Hobo Songs
- The Big Brutal City
- Prison and Jail Songs
- Blues, Mellows, Ballets
- The Great Open Spaces
- Mexican Border Songs
- Southern Mountains
- Picnic and Hayrack Follies, Close Harmony, and Darn Fool Ditties
- Railroad and Work Gangs
- Lumberjacks, Loggers, Shantyboys
- Sailorman
- Bandit Biographies
- Five Wars
- Lovely People
- Road to Heaven.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1927, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc."
- "'The American Songbag' is a ragbag of strips, stripes, and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth. The melodies and verses presented here are from diverse regions, from varied human characters and communities, and each is sung differently in different places."--Introduction.
- Includes index.
- Black cloth boards lettered and decorated in orange. Top edge stained orange.
- "An American bookshelf of song": pages xii-xiii.
- Contains music.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "William W. Delaney - with respect and good wishes - Carl Sandburg".
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Wm. W. Delaney, Thurs., Nov. 17, 1927.
- Culture Class Collection copy has Book Column from New York Sun dated Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1928 laid in.
- OCLC:
- 5354945
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