The Music of American Folk Song by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larr... - 9781580461368

The Music of American Folk Songand Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music\nAuthor(s): Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky, Judith Tick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580461368, 978-1580461368\nSynopsis\nThis is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living partof the American musical tradition.\n\nThis is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too longand was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included \""Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. I.