Rose & the briar : death, love and liberty in the American ballad / edited by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus. [0393059545 (hardcover) ] New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3551 .R67 2005

 

1 "Barbara Allen" / Dave Marsh 7
2 "The water is wide" / Ann Powers 19
3 "Pretty Polly" / Rennie Sparks 35
4 Music, when soft voices die / Sharyn McCrumb 51
5 Naomi Wise, 1807 / Anna Domino 69
6 John Brown's body / Sarah Vowell 81
7 "When you go a courtin'" / R. Crumb 93
8 Little Maggie - a mystery / Joyce Carol Oates 99
9 We did them wrong : the ballad of Frankie and Albert / Cecil Brown 123
10 The sad song of Delia Green and Cooney Houston / Sean Wilentz 147
11 Destiny in my right hand : "The wreck of old 97" and "Dead man's curve" / David Thomas 159
12 I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / Luc Sante 175
13 "See Willy fly by" and "The cuckoo" / Jon Langford 187
14 Mariachi Reverie / Paul Berman 201
15 "The foggy, foggy dew" / John Rockwell 229
16 "Come Sunday" / Stanley Crouch 241
17 "El Paso" / James Miller 259
18 "Trial of Mary Maguire" / Ed Ward 273
19 "Love, lore, celebrity, and dead babies : Dolly Parton's "Down from Dover" / Eric Weisbard 287
20 "Sail away" and "Louisiana 1927" / Steve Erickson 305
21 Dancing with Dylan / Wendy Lesser 315
22 "Nebraska" / Howard Hampton 327
23 "Blackwatertown" / Paul Muldoon 345 

Siegel,P Siegel,P. Friends of Old Time Music. 

 

 

A group called Friends of Old Time Music put on a series of concerts in the early '60s at high-school and college auditoriums in Greenwich Village; a man named Peter Siegel recorded the shows with a fairly cheap microphone; and this, at last, is the result, a boxed set of awesome and concentrated power, demonstrating exactly the lure of the particular American musical traditions that got deep into a generation of musicians like the young Bob Dylan. (The first F.O.T.M. concert occurred a month after his arrival here, and many of the concert performers were among the mysterious characters assembled on one of his treasured possessions, Harry Smith's ''Anthology of American Folk Music.'') Here is the scarily intense Kentucky-mountain tenor Roscoe Holcomb, the blues-influenced white singer Dock Boggs, the elegant ensemble workings of the bluegrass bands led by Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers and the purring euphony of Mississippi John Hurt; also, some of the revivalists' own bands, including the New Lost Ramblers and the Greenbriar Boys. With strong, clear sound, it makes you understand what the fuss was all about. (Smithsonian Folkways. Three CDs.)

"Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northwest or Song Thief?" Modern China [0097-7004] 31.3 (2005). 381-.