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020 a| 0870499572q| (cloth : alk. paper);

020 a| 9780870499579q| (cloth : alk. paper);

020 a| 0870499580q| (pbk.);

020 a| 9780870499586q| (pbk.);

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049 a| EREM;

050 00 a| PS558.T2b| F65 1997;

245 00 a| Folk songs of middle Tennessee :b| the George Boswell collection /c| edited by Charles K. Wolfe.;

250 a| First edition.;

300 a| xxi, 186 pages :b| music, portrait ;c| 25 cm;

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337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| The original manuscripts of the complete George Boswell folk-song collection are housed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.;

504 a| "George W. Boswell publications and unpublished writings": pages 177-179.;

505 0 a| British ballads and songs. 1. The king's daughter -- 2. Lord Thomas and fair Ellender -- 3. The house carpenter -- 4. Lady Gay (the wife of Usher's well) -- 5. Barbara Allen -- 6. Lord Randall -- 7. Little matty grove -- 8. Old bangum -- 9. Robin Hood and Little John -- 10. Tibby Fowler -- 11. Robin Hood and the butcher -- 12. Lord Lovel -- 13. Mine ain love -- 14. One morning in May -- 15. The gypsies (the gypsy laddie) -- 16. I gave my love a cherry (Captain Wedderburn's courtship) -- 17. Devilish Mary -- 18. Lord Ullin's daughter -- 19. Mister frog went a-courtin' -- 20. There was a ship sailing -- 21. The butcher boy -- 22. The old farmer -- 23. The hound and the fox -- 24. Molly Bond -- 25. Wilkins and his Dinah -- 26. Billy Grimes -- 27. The Chatham merchant -- 28. Mary's dream -- Native American ballads. 29. Stuttering Johnny (Springfield mountain) -- 30. The constitution and the guerriere -- 31. The Knoxville girl -- 32. The first thing I owned was a pistol -- 33. The Chatsworth wreck -- 34. When I was a small boy -- 35. The Titanic (as the moon rose in glory) -- 36. Sinful to flirt -- 37. Fair and tender ladies -- 38. Early, early in the spring -- 39. Jilly Jenkins -- 40. The two lovers (the silver dagger) -- 41. The Derby ram -- 42. An Arkansas traveller (Bill Stafford) -- 43. Come all ye lonely cowboys -- 44. Long John Green -- 45. The Spanish lady -- 46. Brady, why didn't you run? (Duncan and Brady) -- 47. William Owen -- 48. Christine LeRoy -- Local, topical, and civil war songs. 49. The coon song -- 50. When this old hat was new -- 51. Skewball -- 52. Jim Greene of tennessee -- 53. Play on the hill -- 54. Rambling soldier -- 55. The Hickman boys (the downfall of Fort Donelson) -- 56. Rally, boys, rally -- 57. I'm a good old rebel -- 58. The drummer boy -- 59. Jim Bobo's fatal ride -- 60. Moses Andrew Jackson -- 61. The steam arm (a curious story) -- 62. Old Eph Grizzard -- 63. Captain Tom Ryman (rockabout my Saro Jane) -- 64. Leslie the gambler (Parse Nelson) -- 65. Tullahoma laundry blues -- Sentimental and old popular songs. 66. The blind child -- 67. Girl in sunny Tennessee -- 68. Little Joe -- 69. The orphan girl -- 70. The girl who wore the waterfall -- 71. The drunkard's dream -- 72. Pretty fair maid -- 73. Adieu, false heart -- 74. Somebody tall and handsome -- 75. The white rose -- 76. My pretty Flora -- 77. While the band is playing Dixie -- Comedy and novelty songs. 78. Johnny Fool -- 79. Old woman -- 80. Aunt Jemima's plaster -- 81. Walk, Tom Wilson -- 82. Cotton-eyed Joe -- 83. Handsome Sam -- 84. Skin and bones -- 85. Roxy Ann -- 86. Run, mountain, run -- 87. Chewing gum -- 88. Cock robin -- 89. Bye, baby bunting -- 90. Bonaparte -- 91. Go away from my window -- 92. Greenback -- 93. Take me home -- 94. Jocko to the fair -- 95. Sweet Willie -- 96. The longest day I ever saw -- 97. I wish I was a single girl again -- 98. Go away from me, Willie -- 99. Billy po' boy -- 100. Seven long years I've been married -- Religious and gospel songs. 101. Jonah and the whale -- 102. Bold pilgrim -- 103. I've a letter from my father -- 104. The white pilgrim -- 105. The lone graveyard -- 106. Parting (the dying girl's farewell) -- Major informants for this collection.;

520 a| This volume brings together, for the first time, more than one hundred traditional songs from Middle Tennessee--a region that is synonymous in the popular mind with music but one that has been curiously neglected in folksong scholarship. The songs presented here were originally collected in the late 1940s and early 1950s by George Boswell, a distinguished scholar and field researcher who died in 1995. While living in Nashville, Boswell scoured the city and surrounding counties for old ballads and folk songs. Sometimes using a wire or tape recorder, at other times employing a stenographer, he visited numerous singers and transcribed the words and tunes to hundreds of songs. Even after moving from Tennessee to assume a teaching position at the University of Mississippi, Boswell continued to work on his collection, annotating and comparing texts, and publishing occasional samples. In 1950, he noted that Tennessee, virtually alone among southern states, had no published collection of its folk songs. That has remained the case until now. The songs chosen for this book are presented with musical notation and extensive backgound notes, including biographical data on the original informants (many of whom were business and professional people) and fascinating histories of each song. A number of the songs are rare and previously uncollected; others arelocal variants of long-popular ballads. The publication of this volume--the first major collection of southern folk songs in many years--is not only a testament to Boswell's scholarship but a marvelous contribution to our understanding of southern folk culture.;

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Folk songs of middle Tennessee : the George Boswell collection / edited by Charles K. Wolfe.

Other author	Boswell, George W.
Other author	Wolfe, Charles K., editor.
Other author	Vanderbilt University. Library.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1997.
Description	xxi, 186 pages : music, portrait ; 25 cm
Subjects	Folk songs, English--Tennessee. --Texts. Ballads, English--Tennessee. --Texts. Popular culture--Tennessee.

Contents	British ballads and songs. 1. The king's daughter -- 2. Lord Thomas and fair Ellender -- 3. The house carpenter -- 4. Lady Gay (the wife of Usher's well) -- 5. Barbara Allen -- 6. Lord Randall -- 7. Little matty grove -- 8. Old bangum -- 9. Robin Hood and Little John -- 10. Tibby Fowler -- 11. Robin Hood and the butcher -- 12. Lord Lovel -- 13. Mine ain love -- 14. One morning in May -- 15. The gypsies (the gypsy laddie) -- 16. I gave my love a cherry (Captain Wedderburn's courtship) -- 17. Devilish Mary -- 18. Lord Ullin's daughter -- 19. Mister frog went a-courtin' -- 20. There was a ship sailing -- 21. The butcher boy -- 22. The old farmer -- 23. The hound and the fox -- 24. Molly Bond -- 25. Wilkins and his Dinah -- 26. Billy Grimes -- 27. The Chatham merchant -- 28. Mary's dream -- Native American ballads. 29. Stuttering Johnny (Springfield mountain) -- 30. The constitution and the guerriere -- 31. The Knoxville girl -- 32. The first thing I owned was a pistol -- 33. The Chatsworth wreck -- 34. When I was a small boy -- 35. The Titanic (as the moon rose in glory) -- 36. Sinful to flirt -- 37. Fair and tender ladies -- 38. Early, early in the spring -- 39. Jilly Jenkins -- 40. The two lovers (the silver dagger) -- 41. The Derby ram -- 42. An Arkansas traveller (Bill Stafford) -- 43. Come all ye lonely cowboys -- 44. Long John Green -- 45. The Spanish lady -- 46. Brady, why didn't you run? (Duncan and Brady) -- 47. William Owen -- 48. Christine LeRoy -- Local, topical, and civil war songs. 49. The coon song -- 50. When this old hat was new -- 51. Skewball -- 52. Jim Greene of tennessee -- 53. Play on the hill -- 54. Rambling soldier -- 55. The Hickman boys (the downfall of Fort Donelson) -- 56. Rally, boys, rally -- 57. I'm a good old rebel -- 58. The drummer boy -- 59. Jim Bobo's fatal ride -- 60. Moses Andrew Jackson -- 61. The steam arm (a curious story) -- 62. Old Eph Grizzard -- 63. Captain Tom Ryman (rockabout my Saro Jane) -- 64. Leslie the gambler (Parse Nelson) -- 65. Tullahoma laundry blues -- Sentimental and old popular songs. 66. The blind child -- 67. Girl in sunny Tennessee -- 68. Little Joe -- 69. The orphan girl -- 70. The girl who wore the waterfall -- 71. The drunkard's dream -- 72. Pretty fair maid -- 73. Adieu, false heart -- 74. Somebody tall and handsome -- 75. The white rose -- 76. My pretty Flora -- 77. While the band is playing Dixie -- Comedy and novelty songs. 78. Johnny Fool -- 79. Old woman -- 80. Aunt Jemima's plaster -- 81. Walk, Tom Wilson -- 82. Cotton-eyed Joe -- 83. Handsome Sam -- 84. Skin and bones -- 85. Roxy Ann -- 86. Run, mountain, run -- 87. Chewing gum -- 88. Cock robin -- 89. Bye, baby bunting -- 90. Bonaparte -- 91. Go away from my window -- 92. Greenback -- 93. Take me home -- 94. Jocko to the fair -- 95. Sweet Willie -- 96. The longest day I ever saw -- 97. I wish I was a single girl again -- 98. Go away from me, Willie -- 99. Billy po' boy -- 100. Seven long years I've been married -- Religious and gospel songs. 101. Jonah and the whale -- 102. Bold pilgrim -- 103. I've a letter from my father -- 104. The white pilgrim -- 105. The lone graveyard -- 106. Parting (the dying girl's farewell) -- Major informants for this collection.
Abstract	This volume brings together, for the first time, more than one hundred traditional songs from Middle Tennessee--a region that is synonymous in the popular mind with music but one that has been curiously neglected in folksong scholarship. The songs presented here were originally collected in the late 1940s and early 1950s by George Boswell, a distinguished scholar and field researcher who died in 1995. While living in Nashville, Boswell scoured the city and surrounding counties for old ballads and folk songs. Sometimes using a wire or tape recorder, at other times employing a stenographer, he visited numerous singers and transcribed the words and tunes to hundreds of songs. Even after moving from Tennessee to assume a teaching position at the University of Mississippi, Boswell continued to work on his collection, annotating and comparing texts, and publishing occasional samples. In 1950, he noted that Tennessee, virtually alone among southern states, had no published collection of its folk songs. That has remained the case until now. The songs chosen for this book are presented with musical notation and extensive backgound notes, including biographical data on the original informants (many of whom were business and professional people) and fascinating histories of each song. A number of the songs are rare and previously uncollected; others arelocal variants of long-popular ballads. The publication of this volume--the first major collection of southern folk songs in many years--is not only a testament to Boswell's scholarship but a marvelous contribution to our understanding of southern folk culture.
General note	The original manuscripts of the complete George Boswell folk-song collection are housed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.
Bibliography note	"George W. Boswell publications and unpublished writings": pages 177-179.
LCCN	96010011
ISBN	0870499572 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780870499579 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0870499580 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780870499586 (pbk.)

Folk songs of middle Tennessee : the George Boswell collection / edited by Charles K. Wolfe.

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