Sam Henry's Songs of the People
john_bentley
As I have to return it in 3 weeks, does anyone know if this book can be purchased in Australia?
David Brown
: I currently have on loan Sam Henry's "Songs of the People" from the Shropshire County Library in England.
: As I have to return it in 3 weeks, does anyone know if this book can be purchased in Australia?
Contact Lani Herrmann (la...@info.berkeley.edu) - she has copies for
sale of the recent edition that she helped edit.
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David Brown; Berkeley CA davb...@netcom.com
Matthew Richard Montgomery
you can reach him at 10 apollo walk, portrush, county
antrim,northern ireland BT56 8HQ. and ask for his other music
books, too, such as Thousands Are Sailing: a brief song
history of irish emigration. songs of the people is available
from the university of georgia press, athens, ga, usa.
kevin donleavy
charlottesville, va.
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Lani Herrmann
quoth kevin donleavy:
sam hemry's songs of the people is/was edited by john moulden.
you can reach him at 10 apollo walk, portrush, county
antrim,northern ireland BT56 8HQ. and ask for his other music
books, too, such as Thousands Are Sailing: a brief song
history of irish emigration. songs of the people is available
from the university of georgia press, athens, ga, usa.
Just to deconfuse this matter before it goes much further.
There are two books sort of named Sam Henry's Songs of the People.
The first was indeed edited by John Moulden at the address given in
Antrim, and it was published in 1979 by Blackstaff Press in Northern
Ireland. This edition contains 100 songs drawn from the original
collection and quite a lot of scholarly apparatus, footnotes and all.
Its proper title is _Songs of the People: Selections from the Sam
Henry Collection, Part 1_ (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1979). (For
completion fanatics: that's all there is, no more parts.)
The second is _Sam Henry's 'Songs of the People,'_ edited by Gale
Huntington and Lani Herrmann (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press,
1990). I am, of course, much more familiar with this one, being as the
second editor is a very close relative. 632 pages, nearly 700 items,
plus all the scholarly baggage one might hope for. (I've posted
bibliographic details from the book for a couple of songs on the Irish
and Ballad lists recently.) Not incidentally, John Moulden (who had
begun his work on Sam Henry, a Northern Irish civil servant as well as
collector, independently of Gale Huntington) was a big help to us in
preparing the 'complete' 'American' edition, and in particular helped
us with the index of Ulster place names.
John Moulden is currently doing research on Ulster songs and history,
and has published a bunch of booklets, including two with songs and
music in them. "Thousands Are Sailing" is the second of them, and is
rich in background and additional sources.
UNABASHED PLUG: The clothbound edition of (the UGa Press version of)
_Sam Henry's 'Songs of the People'_ is now available from me (write to
*the home address below*) for $35 postpaid (in the U.S.). This comes
with a freshly printed jacket (with photographs of some of Sam Henry's
informants, as with the paperback) plus, at no extra charge, the
Missing Maps and Colophon omitted from the edition.
I'll make up an e-file of further description of the book Real Soon
Now, to send to anyone who inquires. Or ask for a flier (giving your
terrestrial coordinates) and I'll mail you a copy and order form. [END
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Thanks for listening -- er, reading! -- Aloha, Lani
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