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American folk songs
American folksong
Author_Katharine D. Newman
balladeers
ballads
British folk songs
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dance tunes
early twentieth century
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folk ballads
folk music
folk music about women
folk songs
folksong collections
folksongs about women
folkways
Grandma Deb
minstrel songs
New Jersey
New York
nineteenth century
Northeastern folk music
oral history
Philadelphia
poems
song collections
song lyrics
storytelling
taboos
temperance songs
traditional songs
tunes
women artists
women folk musicians
women folk singers
women's biography
working class folk singers
Product details
- ISBN 9780252063718
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1995
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a "bound-out girl," or serving maid, along the New York-Pennsylvania border in the late 1800s. Largely ignored and unwanted, Devlin persevered through Dickensian misfortunes to find love and raise a family (often alone) in Philadelphia and Gloucester, New Jersey. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information about the older woman's life and music. Half a century later, Newman returned to her collection in retirement, with her own perspective of age. The result is a unique biography of an American working-class woman, told with depth and candor. Newman also includes "I Wish I'd Been Born a Boy," "James Bird," "Martha Decker," "My Grandmother's Old Armchair," and other pieces, both British and American, most with tunes.
Katharine C. Newman was an independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
