Pinery Boys - Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era

Informationen zum Autor Franz Rickaby (1889-1925) was born in Arkansas, educated at Knox College and Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Dakota. Gretchen Dykstra was the founding president of the National 9/11 Memorial Foundation, commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and president of the Times Square Alliance. James P. Leary is professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include the Grammy-nominated multimedia production Folksongs of Another America . Klappentext As the heyday of the lumber camps faded! Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys! river drivers! and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Travelling mostly on foot! he collected not just the words of songs! but the tunes! making careful notes about his informants and their performances. Pinery Boys incorporates! commemorates! contextualizes! and complements Rickaby's early work.

Product details

• Authors: Franz Dykstra Rickaby
• Assisted by: J Baird Callicott (Editor), Gretchen Dykstra (Editor), Susan L Flader (Editor), James P. Leary (Editor), Franz Rickaby (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780299312640
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31264-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Languages and Folklore of Uppe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous