Ralph Lee Smith: 2 books
by Ralph Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions...
by Ralph Lee Smith, Madelin MacNeil
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs, field-collected by two remarkable real-life "song catchers," Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman, in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine and Loraine, the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway, a composer...