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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 13, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 13, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
Argyle Boom, Vol. XVII of Northeast Folklore, is now being sent to Northeast Folklore Society members and libraries, and is ready for sale from our office. It is a readable book on what at first appears to be an unreadable subject. Written and edited mostly by Sandy Ives, with a back up crew of some twelve fieldwork students and eighteen informants, the book covers (in the usual exhaustive Ives Style) the description, operation, and peripheral data of the Argyle Boom and neighboring booms as they existed in the first two decades of the 20th century. An enormous operation in its …
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 12, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 12, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
I could have listened to Sparky Rucker for the entire 4 1/2 hours. That's how long the Friday night installment of Folksongs in February was. Sparky Rucker was the last performer of the evening, going on at 11:40 [p.m.]. Believe me, at that hour, his performance was like a shot of adrenalin. Six hundred pairs of eyes and ears suddenly snapped to attention. Black southern traditional music presented with such explosive, energetic, boot-stomping depth—what a finish!!
Lumbercamp Singing And The Two Traditions, Edward D, Ives
Lumbercamp Singing And The Two Traditions, Edward D, Ives
Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers
What I will do in this short paper is to describe singing as it occurred in the lumbercamps of Maine during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What was its function, when, where, and (in broad terms only) how was it done; who were the singers, and what was the basic repertoire? I will then take my own early assumption that there were two traditions in the Northeast: something called "lumbercamp" or "woods" tradition and something called "local" tradition. I will wind up by redefining these two traditions and something called "local" tradition. I will wind up by redefining …