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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
imported from the Old World, are Weevilly Wheat, Juniper tree, Skip to My Lou, The Needle's eye, Happy is the Miller, We're marching Round the Levy; some favourite game-songs of the Central West are Bounce a round, We'll all go down to Rowser's, Pig in the parlour. Beside traditional pieces and those of obscure origin, modern songs of all kinds have been utilized in play-party games: minstrel songs—as Old Dan Tucker, Angelina Baker, Jim along Jo, Buffalo Gals—and the popular street songs, Nelly Gray, Little Brown Jug, John Brown's body, Captain Jinks of the horse Marines. The modern pieces are likeliest to escape mutilation, at least so long as they retain currency as separate songs. Even hymns, scraps of glee club songs, and Mother Goose rhymes are sometimes utilized to form accompaniments to dances. New stanzas are welcomed, and local adaptations, irrelevant or facetious. Judging from recorded material, communal utilization and preservation of a song as a dance song does not bri
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
8 National era, the, 70 National Gazette, 410 National Institute, 84 National Intelligencer, the, 152 National labourer, the, 437 National quarterly Review, 304 National Trades-Union, the, 437 Native races of the Pacific States, 195, 196 Natives of Hawaii, the, 156 Nautical Almanac, 234 Naval Academy, 196 Navy in the Civil War, the, 181 Neander, 455 Nearest the Pole, 170 Needle's eye, the, 56 Neef, 399, 409 Nellie, the beautiful Cloak model, 287 Nelly Gray, 516 Nelson, Wolfred, 162 Neuendorff, Adolf, 587, 588 Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung, 576 Neue Unpartheyische Readinger Zeitung, 576 New and complete system of arithmetic, 401 New basis of civilization, the, 442 Newcomb, Simon, 440 New day, the, 49 New Eldorado, the, 166 Newell, W. W., 512, 515 New Englander, 301, 303 New England farmer, the, 430 New England Primer, the, 391, 521 New England psalm singer, 574 New England's first fruits, 392 New