Publisher:
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). Fourth Edition.:
Royal octavo, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), xvi + 407 pp. Very Good+, with slight sunning to edges. From Preface: This is a sampling of America's folk songs -- homemade hand-me-downs in words and music, songs accepted by whole communities, songs voted good by generations of singers and passed on by word of mouth to succeeding generations, a tradition quite distinct from popular song (made to sell and sell quickly) and cultivated art (made, so much of it, to conform to prestige patterns). If these songs had composers at first, they have been largely forgotten, and rightly so, since f...
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