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Work Songs
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Ted Gioia
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the s
Bob Dylan's Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Timothy Hampton
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-04 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated
Songs of Work and Worship
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: James Carter
Categories: Hymns, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 1899 - Publisher:

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Healing Songs
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Ted Gioia
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditi
Slave Songs of the United States
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: William Francis Allen
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Applewood Books

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Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all wer