Song Of The Rivers

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Song Of The Rivers
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson, selected and edited by E. D. Adams. With a new poem by A. C. Swinburne, etc.

Posted by admin on April 14, 2012 Comments Off

Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson, selected and edited by E. D. Adams. With a new poem by A. C. Swinburne, etc.
Title: Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson, selected and edited by E. D. Adams. With a new poem by A. C. Swinburne, etc.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse.

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British Library
Adams, Estelle Davenport;
1887.
xxxii. 324 p. ; 8º.
11601.ff.15.

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River Song

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River Song

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Dark River: Songs From the Civil War Era

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Dark River: Songs From the Civil War Era
In observance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Blue Corn Music presents Dark River, a unique anthology of public-domain songs from the Civil War era, re-imagined by a diverse collection of A-list Austin artists/songwriters.

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Down by the River: Afro-Caribbean Rhymes, Games, and Songs for Children

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Down by the River: Afro-Caribbean Rhymes, Games, and Songs for Children

Down by the river,
Down by the sea,
Johnny break a bottle
An’ he say is me.
I tell Ma,
Ma tell Pa,
Johnny get a licking,
An’ a ha! ha! ha!

Here is a fun collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes games and songs, collected by Trinidadian author Grace Hallworth, and brought to life by Caroline Binch’s bright and life-like illustrations.

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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09

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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09

In 1908 two young women—the authors of this book—accepted Indian Service appointments as field matrons for the Karok Indians in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. Although the area had been the scene of a gold rush some fifty years earlier, they write in the foreword, “the social life of the Indian—what he believed and the way he felt about things—was very little affected by white influence. The older Indians still had the spaced tatoo marks on their forearms, by which they could measure the length of the string of wampum required to buy a wife. . . . The white men we knew on the Rivers were pioneers of the Old West. . . . All around us was gold country, the land of the saloon and of the six-shooter. Our friends and neighbors carried guns as a matter of course, and used them on occasion. But the account given in these pages is not of these occurrences but of everyday life on the frontier in an Indian village, and what Indians and badmen did and said when they were not engaged in wiping out their friends and neighbors. It is also the account of our own two years in Indian country where, in the sixty-mile stretch between Happy Camp and Orleans, we were the only white women, and most of the time quite scared enough to satisfy anybody.”

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The idyllic Avon: Being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon, with songs & pictures of the river and its neighbourhood

Posted by admin on January 17, 2012 Comments Off

The idyllic Avon: Being a simple description of the Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon, with songs & pictures of the river and its neighbourhood

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Jazz on the River

Posted by admin on January 13, 2012 Comments Off

Jazz on the River

Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer months to tramp the Mississippi River, bringing an exotic new music to the rest of the nation. For entrepreneurs promoting jazz, this seemed a promising way to spread northward the exciting sounds of the Crescent City. And the musicians no longer had to wait for folks upriver to make their way down to New Orleans to hear the vibrant rhythms, astonishing improvisations, and new harmonic idioms being created.

Simply put, when jazz went upstream, it went mainstream, and in Jazz on the River, William Howland Kenney brings to life the vibrant history of this music and its seduction of the men and women along America’s inland waterways. Here for the first time readers can learn about the lives and music of the levee roustabouts promoting riverboat jazz and their relationships with such great early jazz adventurers as Louis Armstrong, Fate Marable, Warren “Baby” Dodds, and Jess Stacy. Kenney follows the boats from Memphis to St. Louis, where new styles of jazz were soon produced, all the way up the Ohio River, where the music captivated audiences in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh alike.

Jazz on the River concludes with the story of the decline of the old paddle wheelers-and thus riverboat jazz-on the inland waterways after World War II. The enduring silence of our rivers, Kenney argues, reminds us of the loss of such a distinctive musical tradition. But riverboat jazz still lives on in myriad permutations, each one in tune with our own times.

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The River’s Song: A Novel

Posted by admin on January 4, 2012 Comments Off

The Rivers Song: A Novel

This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alienating and transforming experience of winning a scholarship to the most prestigious girls’ boarding school on the island. Atypical of Caribbean literature because of its description of a young girl’s sexual awakening, the novel offers poetic descriptions of rural and urban Jamaica and delightful characterizations of warm and lively women, including the narrator’s mother, grandmother, and neighbors.

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River Songs, and Other Poems: Illustrated by Margery May [ 1882 ]

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River Songs, and Other Poems: Illustrated by Margery May [ 1882 ]
Originally published in 1882. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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