Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads & Folk Songs by John A. and Alan Lomax, Eds - 1941

416 pages.Covers show light rubbing, and bumping on the corners. Pages with red top edge are very clean with no markings noted.

Macmillan Company; NY, 1941. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus/good. Small quarto, 9 1/2" tall, xxxiv + 416 pages, red titles on gray cloth. A very good, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, but yellowing (foxing) to the exterior margins and the effects of New York City soot on the dust jacket and fore-edges, binding tight, paper light to moderately yellowed, with foxing to the endpapers and fore-edges, and with the name of a previous owner (musicologist Rudi Blesh) on the front endpaper. In a good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price present, but somewhat soiled by that city soot. Because of the larger size and weight, this volume will require some additional postage depending on destination.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941., 1941. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Gray cloth, titles stamped in red on front cover and spine, xxxiv, 416 pp., red top stain, introduction, preface, music preface, illustrated with music, bibliography, index of songs, index of first lines. Music edited by Ruth Crawford Seeger. A sequel to the earlier publication American Folk Songs and Ballads the Lomaxes collected these songs primarily from the American South. Ruth Seeger's transcription and arrangement of the tunes is highly praised. Almost all of these songs can be found in the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Songs. Their goal was to collect traditional folk music from working class and poverty-stricken Americans. They interviewed both white and black musicians for their project, and even traveled to the Caribbean for their second volume. The songs contained within this volume are divided into subject areas to include religious songs, social songs, men at work songs, outlaw… Read More