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- Binding
- TC
- EAN
- 9781501700026
- ISBN
- 1501700022
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Edition
- First Edition
- Book Title
- Hear My Sad Story : The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Music, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folklore & Mythology
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone." In Hear My Sad Story , Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg's account of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touch with the dark but terribly familiar side of American history. On Christmas 1895 in St. Louis, an African American man named Lee Shelton, whose nickname was "Stack Lee," shot and killed William Lyons in a dispute over seventy-five cents and a hat. Shelton was sent to prison until 1911, committed another murder upon his release, and died in a prison hospital in 1912. Even during his lifetime, songs were being written about Shelton, and eventually 450 versions of his story would be recorded. As the song--you may know Shelton as Stagolee or Stagger Lee--was shared and adapted, the emotions of the time were preserved, but the fact that the songs described real people, real lives, often fell by the wayside. Polenberg returns us to the men and women who, in song, became legends. The lyrics serve as valuable historical sources, providing important information about what had happened, why, and what it all meant. More important, they reflect the character of American life and the pathos elicited by the musical memory of these common and troubled lives.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501700022
ISBN-13
9781501700026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211798062
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hear My Sad Story : The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folklore & Mythology
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Music, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3551.P65 2015
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Well researched and packed with fascinating detail, Hear My Sad Story tells more than just the origins of popular folk songs. It tells an unflinching and honest story of America. At times viciously misguided and undoubtedly ugly, the country's history has nevertheless been documented through the lenses of those who witnessed these events and passed them down to subsequent generations. Celebrated in song, the tales outlined through the book's nearly 300 pages seem poised to continue their grip on the fabric of society as we move further away from the actual events. As history continues to unfold, there are surely those amongst us today whose interpretations of modern events will be relied upon by future songwriters to help make sense of life in our time. It's the American tradition. "--Jeff Strowe, PopMatters (January 7, 2016), Polenberg writes engagingly about the Crescent City at the turn of the last century, as he does about everything he addresses in this entertaining and enlightening book., This fascinating book by one of the very best twentieth-century American historians draws on Richard Polenberg's enduring and continuing interest in folk music. Hear My Sad Story provides useful and illuminating background stories for a host of important American songs. Polenberg's good, crisp, readable prose ensures that anyone who likes folk music will enjoy this musical window onto the patterns of the past., "Polenberg writes engagingly about the Crescent City at the turn of the last century, as he does about everything he addresses in this entertaining and enlightening book."--Jerome Clark, fRoots (Jan/Feb 2016), " Hear My Sad Story is an excellent book about folk songs and ballads that cover much of U.S. history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Richard Polenberg draws on a wide range of fascinating primary and secondary sources to tell these stories in rich detail, particularly dealing with legal and political issues."--Ronald D. Cohen, Indiana University Northwest, author of Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970, "I never knew that 'Railroad Bill,' which I used to sing at summer camp, is about an African American outlaw (real name Morris) who terrorized Alabama in the 1890s. People had good reason to fear Bill, but that fear was also used as an excuse for the blatantly racist treatment of people whose only connection to him seems to have been the color of their skin. ('A number of Negroes have been arrested,' Polenberg quotes an 1895 news report. 'None of them will be permitted to go about for fear that they might sneak some information to Railroad.') Many of Polenberg's stories shed similar light on the uglier aspects of American history, and he tells them well."--Peter Keepnews, New York Times Book Review, "By giving equal weight to historical events and their reinvention as musical myths, Richard Polenberg creates a rich and colorful tapestry of fact and fable. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable and frequently illuminating volume."--Elijah Wald, musician, cultural historian, and coauthor of The Mayor of MacDougal Street, Hear My Sad Story is an excellent book about folk songs and ballads that cover much of U.S. history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Richard Polenberg draws on a wide range of fascinating primary and secondary sources to tell these stories in rich detail, particularly dealing with legal and political issues., I never knew that 'Railroad Bill,' which I used to sing at summer camp, is about an African American outlaw (real name Morris) who terrorized Alabama in the 1890s. People had good reason to fear Bill, but that fear was also used as an excuse for the blatantly racist treatment of people whose only connection to him seems to have been the color of their skin. ('A number of Negroes have been arrested,' Polenberg quotes an 1895 news report. 'None of them will be permitted to go about for fear that they might sneak some information to Railroad.') Many of Polenberg's stories shed similar light on the uglier aspects of American history, and he tells them well., This thought-provoking study will help us to delve further into the reasons why so many of America's most popular songs have concerned white and male violence while obscuring black agency and side-stepping the terrorism of racism and male supremacy. Perhaps then we can better ask the questions we might have gleaned from these songs all along. Thanks to Richard Polenberg for pulling the covers off and allowing us to think more deeply about our history when we sing the folk songs that tell my sad story., "This thought-provoking study will help us to delve further into the reasons why so many of America's most popular songs have concerned white and male violence while obscuring black agency and side-stepping the terrorism of racism and male supremacy. Perhaps then we can better ask the questions we might have gleaned from these songs all along. Thanks to Richard Polenberg for pulling the covers off and allowing us to think more deeply about our history when we sing the folk songs that tell "my sad story."--Michael K. Honey,Missouri Historical Review(April 2016), "This fascinating book by one of the very best twentieth-century American historians draws on Richard Polenberg's enduring and continuing interest in folk music. Hear My Sad Story provides useful and illuminating background stories for a host of important American songs. Polenberg's good, crisp, readable prose ensures that anyone who likes folk music will enjoy this musical window onto the patterns of the past."--Allan M. Winkler, Miami University of Ohio, author of "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Well researched and packed with fascinating detail, Hear My Sad Story tells more than just the origins of popular folk songs. It tells an unflinching and honest story of America. At times viciously misguided and undoubtedly ugly, the country's history has nevertheless been documented through the lenses of those who witnessed these events and passed them down to subsequent generations. Celebrated in song, the tales outlined through the book's nearly 300 pages seem poised to continue their grip on the fabric of society as we move further away from the actual events. As history continues to unfold, there are surely those amongst us today whose interpretations of modern events will be relied upon by future songwriters to help make sense of life in our time. It's the American tradition.., "Hear My Sad Story is an excellent book about folk songs and ballads that cover much of U.S. history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Richard Polenberg draws on a wide range of fascinating primary and secondary sources to tell these stories in rich detail, particularly dealing with legal and political issues."--Ronald D. Cohen, Indiana University Northwest, author of Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970, By giving equal weight to historical events and their reinvention as musical myths, Richard Polenberg creates a rich and colorful tapestry of fact and fable. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable and frequently illuminating volume.
Table of Content
Prologue: The Streets of Laredo St. Louis1. St. Louis Blues (1914) 2. Duncan and Brady (1890) 3. Stagolee (1895) 4. Frankie and Johnny (1899) Lying Cold on the Ground5. Omie Wise (1807) 6. The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1831) 7. Tom Dooley (1866) 8. Poor Ellen Smith (1892) 9. Pearl Bryan (1896) 10. Delia's Gone (1900) Bold Highwaymen and Outlaws11. Cole Younger (1876) 12. Jesse James (1882) 13. John Hardy (1894) 14. Railroad Bill (1896) 15. Betty and Dupree (1921) Railroads16. John Henry (1870s) 17. Engine 143 (1890) 18. Casey Jones (1900) 19. Wreck of the Old 97 (1903) Workers20. Cotton Mill Blues (1930s) 21. Chain Gang Blues (1930s) 22. Only a Miner (1930s) 23. House of the Rising Sun (1930s) Disasters24. The Titanic (1912) 25. The Boll Weevil (1920s) Martyrs26. Joe Hill (1915) 27. Sacco and Vanzetti (1927) Epilogue: Hear My Sad Story
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-016652
Dewey Decimal
782.42162/13009
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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