Title
Texas Folk Songs (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Paperback)),Used
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This volume is, in Owenss words, a sampling of a rich experience in a richer land. The 135 songs included, a number of them in versions by more than one singer, are divided into nine chapters containing British popular ballads, AngloAmerican ballads, AngloAmerican love songs, AngloAmerican comic songs, songs and games for children, playparty songs and games, AngloAmerican spirituals, AfricanAmerican spirituals, and AfricanAmerican secular songs. The British ballads were brought to America in the seventeenth century and later were carried westward to Texas by the adventurous pioneers who settled the state.The American ballad section is full of the stories of battles, crimes, and catastrophes that appealed as subjects to our countrys folk singers when they adapted the British ballad traditions to their own use. There is heroism aplenty in these ballads; but when it came to love, the American singers deserted the heroically tragic tales of British balladry for mournful, plaintive songs in which the sad lover has nothing much to do but waste away in sorrow. Songs like these helped Texas pioneer womenand men alsoto find release from the sternness of frontier life by having a good cry. On the other hand, humor, too, helpedraw, rugged, raucous humor, as the section of comic songs demonstrates.New musical transcriptions of the melodies have been provided by musicologist Jessie Ann Owens from the original recordings, with guitar chords indicated where the singer provided accompaniment. Bibliographical source notes are included for the benefit of the scholar; but this is not a book just for scholars. These songs have been collected, as Owens has written, for those who love to sing them as well as for those who have an interest in the past.
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