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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... SONGS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Prelude. I. We all love rivers: E'en the little rills, That gurgle down the valleys round our homes, Live ever in our memories and hearts; And at all times we feel a joyous swell Within our souls, and coursing all our veins, When any flowing river meets the eye. 'Tis thus I love all streams, but unto thee, Oh! mighty Mississippi, goes my heart, More than all other rivers of the earth. And I have yearned to see thy name embalmed In glowing song, immortal as thyself; And I have listened for those harps renowned, Which sing the glories of this land of ours, To sound abroad thy praises and thy fame. But they are silent; and with trembling hand, And awed, I now essay the great attempt. Oh ye, who sang the heathen Gods of old, In strains that have outlived their shrines--oh Bards Whose tuneful songs are heard above the roar Of earth's discordant storms--Judean Seers Whose visions passed the far off blue of heaven--Whose voices uttered moral truths profound, Beseeching human hearts to turn to God And live, despise not ye my daring lyre, Though by a village hand 'tis tuned and strung! If Ye do still look on these scenes below With any deep regard, or interest take In mortal songs, which once your glory were, And can a child of earth inspire with thought, Oh! fill me now with that celestial fire, Which still along your lofty numbers burns! It is no mean ambition bids me sing, To win the shallow praise that lives an hour; But that I may impress on every heart, The same abiding love that fills my own, And utter those emotions which within My swelling bosom rise, wnen I behold That mighty ever-moving, restless stream; And thus the glory to myself impart, Which fills the grandest river earth can boast! ii. THE MISSISSIPPI...
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While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs. In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating snapshot of vernacular music as heard in Mississippi in the early part of the recorded era. However, this music was unpublished and forgotten. In 1939, building on the contacts made three years earlier, Herbert Halpert led one of the last and best executed of the WPA folklore projects which recorded audio performances in Mississippi. Some, but not all, of those distinctive fiddle tune recordings have been published. Additionally, through cassette tape copies passed hand to hand, some of these distinctive tunes have regained currency and popularity among contemporary fiddlers. In Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, this great music is at last widely available. Selected tunes in this book are available from Document Records. Get Harry Bolick's CD with 22 tunes from the book, more information, a video, and free downloads of the sound files at www.mississippifiddle.com.
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In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi’s rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick has spent the intervening years working on this book, its sequel. Beginning with Tony Russell’s original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with Russell, Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78 rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, and Narmour & Smith had been well known in the state. Others, like the Collier Trio, were obscure. This collecting work was followed by many field trips to Mississippi searching for and locating the children and grandchildren of the musicians. Previously unheard recordings and stories, unseen photographs and discoveries of nearly unknown local fiddlers, such as Jabe Dillon, John Gatwood, Claude Kennedy, and Homer Grice, followed. The results are now available in this second, companion volume, Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920–2018. Two hundred and seventy musical examples supplement the biographies and photographs of the thirty-five artists documented here. Music comes from commercial recordings and small pressings of 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and LP records; collectors’ field recordings; and the musicians’ own home tape and disc recordings. Taken together, these two volumes represent a delightfully comprehensive survey of Mississippi’s fiddle tunes.