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Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Wells, Robert V.

 
9780252076503: Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History (Music in American Life)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252076508 ISBN 13: 9780252076503
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Robert V. Wells discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another. Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, Wells investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow. He also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Featuring a selective discography of key recordings, this book offers an accessible model for using folk songs as a richly evocative reflection of the American past.

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About the Author

Robert V. Wells is the Chauncey H. Winters Professor of History and Social Sciences at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and the author of Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990 and other works.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252076508
ISBN 13 
9780252076503
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272