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America's Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk song traditions for more than two centuries. In the 1930s and 1940s, Sidney Robertson, Alan Lomax, and Helene Stratman-Thomas--with support from the Library of Congress and armed with bulky microphones, blank disks, spare needles, and cumbersome disk-cutting machines--recorded roughly 2,000 songs and tunes throughout Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Spanning dance tunes, ballads, lyric songs, hymns, laments, versified taunts, political anthems, street cries, and recitations, these field recordings--made by people born before or shortly after 1900--were captured at a transformative moment when America was in the throes of the Great Depression, World War II was erupting, and market-driven mass entertainment media were expanding rapidly. Yet, except for a handful of Anglo-American performances, these remarkable field recordings in more than twenty-five languages have remained largely unknown, along with the lives of their mostly immigrant, indigenous, rural, and working-class performers. Since the 1970s, folklorist James P. Leary has worked steadily to bring the folk music of the Upper Midwest to a larger public. Folksongs of Another America presents 187 representative performances by more than 200 singers and musicians, carefully restored in digital form from deteriorating original formats. The accompanying book provides an introduction, full texts of all lyrics in the original languages and in English translation, extensive notes about each song and tune, biographical sketches and photographs of many of the performers, and details about Robertson, Lomax, and Stratman-Thomas and their fieldwork efforts as song collectors. These restored performances reveal with clarity and power a nearly lost sonic portrait of another America. Winner, Best Historical Research in Folk or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Honorable mention, Wayland Hand Prize for Folklore and History, American Folklore Society Runner-up, History, Midwest Book Awards "A treasure. . . . Leary's deep knowledge of the subject matter is demonstrated by thought-provoking facts placing the dance tunes, ballads, lyrics songs, hymns, political anthems, and more in historical context."-- Book Verdict, Library Journal "An amazing 'bible' . . . A magnificent boxed set of Midwestern music."-- Surface Noise , WFMU Radio, New York, NY "The best set of folklore documents that I have heard in a long time. It is a truly amazing production. If it does not win an award for the best reissue set of 2015, then I really will eat my hat "-- Musical Traditions, UK "Most celebrated field recordings of American folk music are documents of the rural South, but this absorbing collection makes the case for a different milieu entirely. . . . A mind-boggling swath of material."-- New York Times , Holiday Gift Guide "Amazing. . . . The end-all book on folk music of the Midwest."-- Finnish American Reporter "This monumental effort will have an audience among students and fans of traditional music. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." --Choice "So comprehensively detailed and thoroughly vetted that it would be hard to see where one would have a complaint about this magnificent volume. . . . It should serve as a standard text for understanding folklore in this region and a proud example of how best to package the surviving output of field trips. It outstrips most of its predecessors by virtue of its offering text, sound, images and moving images; Folksongs of Another America is a model of its kind."-- ARSC Journal, Association for Recorded Sound Collections "Attains the highProduct Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299301508
ISBN-139780299301507
eBay Product ID (ePID)201612502
Product Key Features
Book TitleFolksongs of Another America : Field Recordings from the Upper MidWest, 1937-1946
Number of Pages456 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEthnomusicology, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), General
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, History
AuthorJames P. Leary
Book SeriesLanguages and Folklore of Upper MidWest Ser.
FormatMixed Lot
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7 in
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Reviews"[Given the] impressive 456 pages of essays, photographs, song-by-song notes, artist profiles and lyrics, it is extraordinary to think that this is just the supporting material to the rather wondrous 5CDs and DVD that serve up some of the most unusual, heart-wrenching, and amazing music you can hope to hear. . . . Jaw-dropping."-- Red Lick, Cardiff, Wales, "A priceless compendium, a fascinating work for anyone interested in the deeper streams of Americana, American ethnic culture and the history of the Upper Midwest."-- Milwaukee Shepherd Express, "A historically illuminating listening experience. The basic folk song forms are here--yodels, ballads, limericks, hymns, rags ,and polkas--but the voicings are not far from the assimilation point where the Old and New Worlds began to drift apart. Even when the lyrics are delivered in English, sharp and distinct ethnic colorations, inflections, timbres, and tone cast the ear back to Europe rather than forward to the future America."-- Creative Loafing, "Featuring 5 CDs and a DVD documentary film, [this is a] seminal work of impressively detailed scholarship throughout and must be considered an essential, core addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library American Music reference collections."-- Midwest Book Review, "The astonishing range of music collected here reveals the deeply hued cultures of the Midwest before and after World War II, when these field recordings were made. Folksongs of Another America deftly combines dynamic media—CDs, a DVD, and a richly annotated book to go with them—to tell a multifaceted story. Though brimming with scholarship, the book's crisp, clear prose reveals the music and the people who made it."—Henry Sapoznik, author of Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World, "Who knew that the songs of Wisconsin lumberjacks were as . . . singular as the stuff being made in Appalachia or the Mississippi delta? . . . This collection offers many such recordings and more. Compiled by [folklorist] James P. Leary, it features rural music from first-generation immigrants and communities--African American, German, Finnish, Icelandic, Scots Gaelic, Serbian and Swedish and more--exploring their new homes while refusing to abandon their musical roots."-- Los Angeles Times, "The cultural gifts of immigrants are amply demonstrated by the CD box set Folksongs of Another America . . . . . This is an exceptional achievement that demonstrates for the first time the full worth and cultural wealth of the Upper Midwest for music listeners."-- Deutschland RadioKultur, " Folksongs of Another America is a groundbreaking work, covering musical and cultural ground woefully overlooked by American music scholars."--Kip Lornell, author of Exploring American Folk Music, "The astonishing range of music collected here reveals the deeply hued cultures of the Midwest before and after World War II, when these field recordings were made. Folksongs of Another America deftly combines dynamic media--CDs, a DVD, and a richly annotated book to go with them--to tell a multifaceted story. Though brimming with scholarship, the book's crisp, clear prose reveals the music and the people who made it."--Henry Sapoznik, author of Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World
Dewey Edition23
Lccn2014-016783
Target AudienceTrade
Dewey Decimal782.42162/13077
Lc Classification NumberMl3551.L35 2015
Table of ContentTrack List Buckhorn Beginnings: A Preface Folksongs of Another America: An Introduction Pigtown Fling: The Sidney Robertson Recordings The River in the Pines: The Wisconsin Lumberjacks Recordings Harps and Accordions: The Alan Lomax Recordings Alan Lomax Goes North: "The Most Fertile Source" When the Dance Is Over: The Helene Stratman-Thomas Recordings, Part One My Father Was a Dutchman: The Helene Stratman-Thomas Recordings, Part Two Sources Index
