Adirondack Traditional Music
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1940s folk music collection
Adirondack folk music
Adirondack Mountains
American ballads
American folk music history
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Champlain Valley music
cultural heritage of Adirondacks
English-Scottish ballads
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folk music documentation
folk music preservation
folk song collection
forthcoming
French-Canadian folk songs
Grandma Delorme
Grange halls music
Haudenosaunee chants
iron mines songs
Lee Knight editor
lumber woods songs
Marjorie Lansing Porter
mountain folk songs
Ray Fadden
regional music traditions
traditional American folk music
traditional music of the Adirondacks
Product details
- ISBN 9781621909675
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2026
- Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Driving a black Studebaker with a distinctive red interior, former journalist Marjorie Lansing Porter crisscrossed the Adirondack Mountains and the Champlain Valley, visiting small hamlets, farmhouses, and Grange halls to record the songs and stories of those who lived and worked in the mountains.
In Adirondack Traditional Music, Lee Knight brings to light the extensive, previously unpublished collection of more than 250 examples of folk music that Porter gathered beginning in 1942. Porter’s work offers a rare glimpse into the diverse musical traditions of the region, documenting everything from the drum-accompanied Haudenosaunee chants of Ray Fadden to the ballads sung by Grandma Delorme in her rocking chair, along with English-Scottish ballads, French-Canadian folk songs, and songs from the lumber woods and iron mines.
Editor Lee Knight brings Porter’s significant yet overlooked contribution to American folk music into focus with an extensive introduction and annotations that help contextualize the collection for modern audiences, emphasizing its importance to the Adirondack region and to the wider field of American folk music.
In Adirondack Traditional Music, Lee Knight brings to light the extensive, previously unpublished collection of more than 250 examples of folk music that Porter gathered beginning in 1942. Porter’s work offers a rare glimpse into the diverse musical traditions of the region, documenting everything from the drum-accompanied Haudenosaunee chants of Ray Fadden to the ballads sung by Grandma Delorme in her rocking chair, along with English-Scottish ballads, French-Canadian folk songs, and songs from the lumber woods and iron mines.
Editor Lee Knight brings Porter’s significant yet overlooked contribution to American folk music into focus with an extensive introduction and annotations that help contextualize the collection for modern audiences, emphasizing its importance to the Adirondack region and to the wider field of American folk music.
Lee Knight is a musician and producer working in North Carolina. He is featured as a musician on two traditional music albums: Wu Man and Friends (Traditional Crossroads, 2005) and Kronos Quartet: Long Time Passing (Smithsonian Folkways, 2020). His articles have appeared in New York Folklore Quarterly, York State Tradition, and Adirondack Kaleidoscope.
