Taylor concentrates on the influence Germans divided history and expansion into Slavic areas had on their actions toward other nations. Not everyone will like his thesis, but it deserves a hearing. The book, which was long out of print, is well written, making it a pleasure to read.

If you can hum "Home On the Range", you have been influenced by this book. Without it, folk music as you know it would be different. Seeing in 1908 that the cowboy's way of life was dying, John Lomax went out into the field and onto the range recording and transcribing This collection became the backbone of American folk music and its traditions. Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote the preface, was so impressed with the result that he created the Folk Song Dept. of the Library of Congress and made John Lomax its first curator. Many songs first saw print here including "The Chisolm Trail" and "The Zebra Dun". Were it not for this book, "Home On the Range" and "Down In the Valley" would have passed into the ether and out of the collective conciousness. The only flaw is that of the 200+ ballads collected here, there are tunes provided for only 50. This was somewhat remedied by the second edition, same title, by John and Alan Lomax (his son, who succeded his father at the Library) published in 1938. And while many of the ballads are now familiar, many are not. Add the fact that each song is likely to have many more verses than are found in modern songbooks and you have a valuable reference work as well. Balladiers are still mining the treasures. The knowlege that these verses were published in the waning days of the Wild West,before the first cameras rolled in Hollywood, makes for insightful reading about a life which is no more. Collectors and folk enthusiasts no longer have to pay exorbitant prices to obtain a copy of this important volume. I won't say what my copy of the 1910 printing (the only other available!) cost me, but I can assure you that $75 is a bargain by comparison.

Not enough has been written about John Barth. This book pulls what has been said already together in an enlightening way. It helps if you know a little about literary theory. If not, you can just skip the first two chapters. The part about Lost in the Funhouse is especially enlightening.

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"Folk Song USA" (also published under the title "Best Loved American Folk Songs")contains 111 American ballads as collected by John A and Allan Lomax. Many of these songs were first printed in other John Lomax books including "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" as words only or words with melody only. Unlike previous books from the Lomaxes that presented these ballads as poetry (how can one have a song without the melody?), this book was meant to be sung! Each song has simple piano arrangements by Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger with guitar chords supplied by Pete Seeger. The short description, giving its known history and how John Lomax first encountered it, often offers valuable insights on rural American life before WWII. Like most Lomax books, these ballads have more verses than are typically found in other collections. This book is found in both hard cover (under both titles)and paperback as "Folk Song USA". If I was to recommend one folk song book only for the average library, this would be it. Highly recommended!

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