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Elizabeth Cotton's well-known 'Freight Train' has 'When I die please bury
me deep, down at the end of Bleecker Street.' It was, I believe, written
while she was Pete Seeger's parents' house-keeper.There are versions of 'New York Gals' [Can't You Dance the Polka]
which mention streets in the Village as being the abode of the 'flash girl,'
though the character of the song make the Bowery-ish names seem more
plausible.Greg
The Roches have one called "Face Down at Folk City". I don't know
their songs well, but you might find something by the Washington
Squares that fits the topic.--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Mar...@cis.umassd.edu
Tom Paxton's Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues has a stanza, Well, I lit up, and, by and by,
The whole platoon was flying high,
With a beautiful smile on the captain's face.
He smelled like midnight on St. Mark's Place. Or something like that --- it has been 30 years. Didn't Peter, Paul, and Mary do a verse of Freight Train like
Down at the end of Bleecker Street
So I can hear old Number 9
As she rolls down the line. ? I realize there was no Number 9 train in the New York subway system,
but that's what I remember them singing. Gerry Myerson
> Elizabeth Cotton's well-known 'Freight Train' has 'When I die please bury
> me deep, down at the end of Bleecker Street.' It was, I believe, written
> while she was Pete Seeger's parents' house-keeper.
>
Not quite. Elizabeth Cotten wrote "Freight Train" when she was about twelve, in 1905. And
the original lryic does not refer to Bleeker Street in New York, but to a street in Chapel Hill,
N.C., where she lived. The song has undegone many varietions, and it's likely that you
heard somebody sing the song using the "Bleeker Street" line.The connection with the Seegers happened in the 1940's, by which time Libba had moved
to Washington, D.C., where she was working in a department store during the Christmas
rush. She helped return a lost little girl to her mother in the store, which led mother to offer
Elizabeth a job as a housekeeper. Mother was Ruth Crawford Seeger, and the little girl was
Peggy Seeger (Pete was son of Charles Seeger and his first wife--Ruth Crawford was
Charles' second wife) . The Seegers had no idea that Elizabeth was a musician herself until Peggy and her brother
Mike heard her playing Peggy's guitar in the kitchen. The song was "Freight Train."
And subways aren't freights. But if you turn the 9 over you get
6, which does stop at Bleecker. Not sure what happens if you
play the album backwards.Someone who really, really, should know tells me this was a PPM-ism
and not part of the original song as I had earlier attributed it.Greg
ie Come all you young fellers and listen to me
I'll sing of the place where you all oughter be
I'll tell you the truth and I'll try to be fair
Of the rackets we had down at Washington Square
Derry down, down etc.dick greenhaus
The original location is Chestnut Street (in Chapel Hill NC), which is
within hearing distance of the railroad that used to run through Chapel
Hill/Carrboro. You can hear the original version as sung my Mike Seeger
(who learned it, of course, from Elizabeth Cotten, as she was the family
nursemaid).
There is a song called "In This Bar on MacDougald Street" in the
Elly Stone album "The New Legend of the Ancient Mariner or The
Spirit of '76 & Other Tales", which was the first (and perhaps last
LP issued by EEBEE records, catalog EEBEE 001, circa 1976. The song
is by Eric Blau and Robert Kessler. Elly Stone was a member of
the original cast (and various subsequent casts) of "Jaques Brel
is Alive and Well and Living in Paris."Howard Kaplan, Toronto
howard...@canrem.com
Since somebody mentioned "Little Italy" as a reference to Greenwich
Village you can probably include Dylan's Song "Joey"."Bob Dylan's Dream" does not directly mention Greenwiich Village
but the scenes where everybody is singing their songs and telling
their stories took place in Greenwich Village."Positively Fourth Street". Some say this is the street in Minnesota,
some say the New York Street.One of the early Dylan talking songs, perhaps "Bob Dylan's Blue" or
"Talking New York Blues" mentions Greenwich Village, even using the
mispronunciation on "Green Witch" for comic effect."Tangled Up In Blue" mentions a MacDougal street with the lyric
"There was music in the cafes as night and revolution in the air".
Some think it is a reference to the Village.There is an excellant book on this time in the Village. I think it
is a history of Folk City. I wish I could be more specific, perhaps
somebody else on the next can be more complete.Another person you might check out is P.G. Wodehouse. He lived in
Greenwich Village in the early part of the century and wrote lyrics
for Jerome Kern (I think) songs. In the Wodehouse books he frequently
refers to the Village.
--
John H. Zureick "And I told you as you
zur...@ucunix.san.uc.edu clawed out my eyes,
Unversity of Cincinnati I never really meant to do you
Solvitur ambulando! any harm." B.Dylan
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.
Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms.[1] Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.
The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes".[2] The term further derives from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier.[3] Though it is understood that folk music is the music of the people, observers find a more precise definition to be elusive.[4][5] Some do not even agree that the term folk music should be used.[4] Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics[2] but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of "old songs, with no known composers,"[6] another is that of music that has been submitted to an evolutionary "process of oral transmission... the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character."[7]
Such definitions depend upon "(cultural) processes rather than abstract musical types...", upon "continuity and oral transmission...seen as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal, capitalist and some oriental societies but also in 'primitive' societies and in parts of 'popular cultures'".[8] One widely used definition is simply "Folk music is what the people sing."[9]
For Scholes,[2] as well as for Cecil Sharp and Bla Bartk,[10] there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town. Folk music was already, "...seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear (or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived),"[11] particularly in "a community uninfluenced by art music"[7] and by commercial and printed song. Lloyd rejected this in favor of a simple distinction of economic class[10] yet for him, true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class"[12] in culturally and socially stratified societies. In these terms, folk music may be seen as part of a "schema comprising four musical types: 'primitive' or 'tribal'; 'elite' or 'art'; 'folk'; and 'popular'."[13]
Music in this genre is also often called traditional music. Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre. For example, the Grammy Award previously used the terms "traditional music" and "traditional folk" for folk music that is not contemporary folk music.[14] Folk music may include most indigenous music.[4]
In folk music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times.[15] A collection of tunes with structural similarities is known as a tune-family. America's Musical Landscape says "the most common form for tunes in folk music is AABB, also known as binary form."[16][page needed]
Some believe that folk music originated as art music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission while reflecting the character of the society that produced it.[2] In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures.[23] Different cultures may have different notions concerning a division between "folk" music on the one hand and of "art" and "court" music on the other. In the proliferation of popular music genres, some traditional folk music became also referred to as "World music" or "Roots music".[24]
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