{"product_id":"life-flows-on-in-endless-song-9780252076503","title":"Life Flows On in Endless Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The best, most up-to-date survey of this topic in print, this is a book for those interested in the intersection of music\/song and historical events and figures. Recommended.”--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Those who consider folk song at its best to be the purest form of social history will thoroughly enjoy this book.\"--\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A muscular, detailed, well researched, stylish and celebratory history of folk music from early America to the 20th Century, with side trips into Britain when necessary to illustrate a point or track a song's lineage.\"--\u003ci\u003eSing Out!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLife Flows on in Endless Song\u003c\/i\u003e is full of examples that enrich our understanding of the aggregate forces that have transformed America since the colonial era.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lovely read with fascinating origin tales of many songs readers will delight in remembering.\"\u003ci\u003e--Journal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wells beautifully explains why some songs have continually touched the American psyche for far longer than these states have been a nation.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A historian with a deep interest in and knowledge of folk music, Wells provides interesting insights about folk songs' potential to make American social history more accessible to students and general readers.\"--Norm Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eLong Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fabulous book with wide appeal. Wells opens up contemporary folk songs to provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and everyday responses to historical events.\"--Scott Reynolds Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eSteel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   ix\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e Who Was Tom Dooley? History and Folk Songs   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003e Careless Love: Courtship, Marriage, and Children   9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003e \"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory\": Of God and Country   35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003e The Man Who Never Returned: Ships, Trains, and Other Transportation   96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003e Just Lookin' for a Home: Traveling On   121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003e Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Hard Times and Hard Men   147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003e How Can I Keep from Singing?\u003cbr\u003e Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie   175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Thinking about Folk Songs   195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   205\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography and Discography   225\u003cbr\u003e Index   233","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036842688855,"sku":"9780252076503","price":27.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252076503.jpg?v=1750932726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-flows-on-in-endless-song-9780252076503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}