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Folk Visions and Voices
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Art Rosenbaum
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors:
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants
Shout Because You're Free
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors:
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious wors
Wake Up Dead Man
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Bruce Jackson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the
Nanci Griffith's Other Voices
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Nanci Griffith
Categories: Folk music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)

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In a lively celebration of the contemporary folk music scene, Nanci Griffith tells the story of her music evolution and introduces the songwriters and performer