Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era by Franz Rickaby (Engl

Description: Pinery Boys by Franz Rickaby, Gretchen Dykstra, James P. Leary A newly annotated edition of a landmark 1926 collection of lumberjack songs, augmented by a biography of pioneering song collector Franz Rickaby and additional songs that he collected. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, a young scholar named Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Traveling mostly on foot with a fiddle slung over his shoulder, Rickaby fell into easy conversation with the men, collecting not just the words of songs, but the tunes, making careful notes about his informants and their performances. Shortly before his groundbreaking and much-praised Ballads and Songs of the Shanty Boy was published in 1926, Rickaby died, leaving later folklorists, cultural historians, and folksong enthusiasts with little knowledge of his life and other unpublished research.Pinery Boys now incorporates, commemorates, contextualizes, and complements Rickabys early work. It includes an introduction and annotations throughout by eminent folklore scholar James P. Leary and an engaging, impressively researched biography by Rickabys granddaughter Gretchen Dykstra. Central to this edition are Rickabys own introduction and the original fifty-one songs that he published—including ""Jack Haggertys Flat River Girl,"" ""The Little Brown Bulls,"" ""Ole from Norway,"" ""The Red Iron Ore,"" and ""Morrissey and the Russian Sailor""—plus fourteen additional songs selected to represent the varied collecting Rickaby did beyond the lumber camps.Supplemented by historical photographs, Pinery Boys fully reveals Franz Rickaby as a visionary artist and scholar and provides glimpses into the past lives of woods poets and singers. Author Biography Franz Rickaby (1889–1925) was born in Arkansas, educated at Knox College and Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Dakota. Gretchen Dykstra was the founding president of the National 9/11 Memorial Foundation, commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and president of the Times Square Alliance. James P. Leary is professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His publications include the Grammy-nominated multimedia production Folksongs of Another America. Table of Contents Illustrations Part One Franz Rickaby, the Lumberjacks Songcatcher: An Introduction, by James P. Leary In Frenzys Footsteps: A Walk through History with the Grandfather I Never Knew, by Gretchen Dykstra Part Two--Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy, by Franz Rickaby Preface Introduction 1. Jack Haggertys Flat River Girl 2. Gerrys Rocks (The Foreman Monroe) 3. Jim Whalen (James Phalen) 4. The Lost Jimmie Whalen 5. The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine (Johnny Murphy) 6. The Shanty-mans Alphabet 7. Save Your Money When Youre Young 8. Michigan-I-O 9. The Shanty-mans Life 10. The Shanty-boy and the Farmers Son 11. The Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire 12. Ye Noble Big Pine Tree 13. The Little Brown Bulls (The Brown Bulls) 14. Jim Porters Shanty Song (Shanty-boy and the Pine; The Shanty-boys Song) 15. The Three McFarlands 16. Ye Maidens of Ontario 17. The Falling of the Pine 18. The Pinery Boy 19. The Maine-ite in Pennsylvania 20. Driving Saw-logs on the Plover 21. Fred Sargents Shanty Song 22. On the Lac San Pierre 23. The Festive Lumberjack 24. The Crow Wing Drive 25. The M. and I. Goo-goo Eyes 26. The Hanging Limb (Harry Dunn) 27. Harry Bail 28. Shanty Teamsters Marseillaise 29. The Fatal Oak 30. The River in the Pines 31. The Merry Shanty Boys 32. Silver Jack 33. Bung Yer Eye 34. Fragments of Shanty Songs 35. The Backwoodsman 36. Ole from Norway 37. Fair Charlotte 38. James Bird 39. The Cumberlands Crew 40. The Hunters of Kaintucky 41. Flying Cloud 42. The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught 43. Bold Daniel Review [Rickaby] was the first to put the singing lumberjack into an adequate record and was of pioneering stuff. ... His book renders the big woods, not with bizarre hokum and studied claptrap ... but with the fidelity of an unimpeachable witness. —Carl Sandburg Review Quote "[Rickaby] was the first to put the singing lumberjack into an adequate record and was of pioneering stuff. ... His book renders the big woods, not with bizarre hokum and studied claptrap ... but with the fidelity of an unimpeachable witness. --Carl Sandburg Promotional "Headline" A landmark collection of lumberjack songs, with new annotations and biography Details ISBN029931264X Pages 328 Publisher University of Wisconsin Press ISBN-10 029931264X ISBN-13 9780299312640 Format Paperback Imprint University of Wisconsin Press Subtitle Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era Place of Publication Wisconsin Country of Publication United States Edited by James P. Leary Illustrations 21 black & white photographs Series Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest DEWEY 782.42162130 Short Title Pinery Boys Language English AU Release Date 1992-12-15 NZ Release Date 1992-12-15 Author James P. Leary UK Release Date 2017-06-30 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-06-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2017-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161891081;

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