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Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
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by Franz Rickaby (Editor), Gretchen Dykstra (Editor), James P. Leary (Editor)
Franz Rickaby
Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
368
by Franz Rickaby (Editor), Gretchen Dykstra (Editor), James P. Leary (Editor)
Franz Rickaby
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Overview
As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, a young scholar named Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Traveling mostly on foot with a fiddle slung over his shoulder, Rickaby fell into easy conversation with the men, collecting not just the words of songs, but the tunes, making careful notes about his informants and their performances. Shortly before his groundbreaking and much-praised Ballads and Songs of the Shanty Boy was published in 1926, Rickaby died, leaving later folklorists, cultural historians, and folksong enthusiasts with little knowledge of his life and other unpublished research.
Pinery Boys now incorporates, commemorates, contextualizes, and complements Rickaby's early work. It includes an introduction and annotations throughout by eminent folklore scholar James P. Leary and an engaging, impressively researched biography by Rickaby's granddaughter Gretchen Dykstra. Central to this edition are Rickaby's own introduction and the original fifty-one songs that he published—including "Jack Haggerty's Flat River Girl," "The Little Brown Bulls," "Ole from Norway," "The Red Iron Ore," and "Morrissey and the Russian Sailor"—plus fourteen additional songs selected to represent the varied collecting Rickaby did beyond the lumber camps.
Supplemented by historical photographs, Pinery Boys fully reveals Franz Rickaby as a visionary artist and scholar and provides glimpses into the past lives of woods poets and singers.
Pinery Boys now incorporates, commemorates, contextualizes, and complements Rickaby's early work. It includes an introduction and annotations throughout by eminent folklore scholar James P. Leary and an engaging, impressively researched biography by Rickaby's granddaughter Gretchen Dykstra. Central to this edition are Rickaby's own introduction and the original fifty-one songs that he published—including "Jack Haggerty's Flat River Girl," "The Little Brown Bulls," "Ole from Norway," "The Red Iron Ore," and "Morrissey and the Russian Sailor"—plus fourteen additional songs selected to represent the varied collecting Rickaby did beyond the lumber camps.
Supplemented by historical photographs, Pinery Boys fully reveals Franz Rickaby as a visionary artist and scholar and provides glimpses into the past lives of woods poets and singers.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780299312640 |
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| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Publication date: | 05/30/2017 |
| Series: | Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Franz Rickaby (1889–1925) was born in Arkansas, educated at Knox College and Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Dakota. Gretchen Dykstra was the founding president of the National 9/11 Memorial Foundation, commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and president of the Times Square Alliance. James P. Leary is professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His publications include the Grammy-nominated multimedia production Folksongs of Another America.
Table of Contents
Illustrations Part One Franz Rickaby, the Lumberjacks’ Songcatcher: An Introduction, by James P. Leary In Frenzy’s Footsteps: A Walk through History with the Grandfather I Never Knew, by Gretchen Dykstra Part Two—Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy, by Franz Rickaby Preface Introduction 1. Jack Haggerty’s Flat River Girl 2. Gerry’s Rocks (The Foreman Monroe) 3. Jim Whalen (James Phalen) 4. The Lost Jimmie Whalen 5. The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine (Johnny Murphy) 6. The Shanty-man’s Alphabet 7. Save Your Money When You’re Young 8. Michigan-I-O 9. The Shanty-man’s Life 10. The Shanty-boy and the Farmer’s Son 11. The Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire 12. Ye Noble Big Pine Tree 13. The Little Brown Bulls (The Brown Bulls) 14. Jim Porter’s Shanty Song (Shanty-boy and the Pine; The Shanty-boy’s Song) 15. The Three McFarlands 16. Ye Maidens of Ontario 17. The Falling of the Pine 18. The Pinery Boy 19. The Maine-ite in Pennsylvania 20. Driving Saw-logs on the Plover 21. Fred Sargent’s Shanty Song 22. On the Lac San Pierre 23. The Festive Lumberjack 24. The Crow Wing Drive 25. The M. and I. Goo-goo Eyes 26. The Hanging Limb (Harry Dunn) 27. Harry Bail 28. Shanty Teamster’s Marseillaise 29. The Fatal Oak 30. The River in the Pines 31. The Merry Shanty Boys 32. Silver Jack 33. Bung Yer Eye 34. Fragments of Shanty Songs 35. The Backwoodsman 36. Ole from Norway 37. Fair Charlotte 38. James Bird’ 39. The Cumberland’s Crew 40. The Hunters of Kaintucky 41. Flying Cloud 42. The Clipper Ship Dreadnaught 43. Bold Daniel 44. Paul Jones, the Privateer (The Yankee Man-of-War) 45. Red Iron Ore 46. The Persian’s Crew 47. The Bigler’s Crew 48. Morrissey and the Russian Sailor 49. Heenan and Sayers (The Bold Benicia Boy) 50. The Dying Soldier 51. Daniel Monroe Part Three—Forgotten Songs from the Rickaby Manuscripts, by Franz Rickaby and James P. Leary Introduction 52. Forget Me Not 53. Minnehaha, Laughing Water 54. The Indian’s Lament 55. The Dark British Foes 56. Die Zwei Soldaten 57. The Little German Home 58. The Deutscher Volunteer 59. Three Grains of Corn 60. Ned McCabe 61. The Mines of Carribou 62. The Selkirk 63. The Song of Mrs. Shattuck 64. Paul and His Chickens 65. Hunting Deer Franz Rickaby’s Notebooks: An Inventory, by Matt Appleby Glossary Index of Titles #160; Index of First Lines Index of Singers and Song SourcesFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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