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Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie

Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax (Foreword by), Ron Pen (Foreword by)Publish date:1997-03-06Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813109275ISBN-10:813109272UPC:9780813109275Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Folklore & Mythology, Printed MusicBook Topic:Folk & Traditional, Artist SpecificSize:10.06 x 6.95 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCNVD9S0S2
With Forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. The youngest daughter of one of the most famous American ballad-singing families, the Ritchie family of Perry County, Kentucky, Jean carries on her family's legacy as a singer of folk songs and traditional ballads. The music found here tells the story of the ""Singing Ritchie Family."" Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited from old-world Scotland,
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813109275ISBN-10:813109272UPC:9780813109275Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Folklore & Mythology, Printed MusicBook Topic:Folk & Traditional, Artist SpecificSize:10.06 x 6.95 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCNVD9S0S2
Pen, Ron: - Ron Pen, associate professor of music and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky, is the editor of The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles and of Jean Ritchie's Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians.Ritchie, Jean: - Jean Ritchie continues to perform at folk festivals, to record, and to publish music.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Edition

2nd Edition

Contributor(s)

Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax (Foreword by), Ron Pen (Foreword by)

Author

Jean Ritchie

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