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Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection

Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne Warner, Alan Lomax (Other)Publish date:2025-04-15Pages:530
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815601852ISBN-10:815601859UPC:9780815601852Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Folk & TraditionalSize:9.02 x 8.58 x 1.40 inchesWeight:3.5031Product ID:SCJYE9T0SF

Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection

Starting in the late 1930s, writer Anne and her husband and musician Frank Warner traveled along the Eastern Seaboard, from the Adirondacks to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, collecting folk songs they would perform, document, research, and lecture on. This decade-spanning work led to the Warners' development of a nearly one-thousand-song archive, one of the defining collections of American...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815601852ISBN-10:815601859UPC:9780815601852Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Folk & TraditionalSize:9.02 x 8.58 x 1.40 inchesWeight:3.5031Product ID:SCJYE9T0SF
Anne Warner has written numerous album liner notes and articles on American folk music. In 1981 an award given at Southeastern Massachusetts University cited Anne and husband Frank Warner as "relentless collectors with lives dedicated to the perpetuation of the oral tradition."
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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