Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier (Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest) - Hardcover

Amy Shaw (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299328708 ISBN 13: 9780299328702

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

Synopsis

Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional - a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book.

Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.

About this title

About the Author

Amy M. Shaw is a musician, archivist, and the head of archives & special collections at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299328708
• ISBN 13: 9780299328702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264