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American Folk Songs for the Classical Guitar (Paperback)
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American Folk Songs for the Classical Guitar (Paperback)
Series: Songs for the Classical Guitar
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Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
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These 25 songs cover an amazing hundred years of American history
and reflect the struggles, loves, laughs, tragedies, trials and, on
occasion, prejudices of a huge number of Americans. Over the years,
these tunes have been the inspiration behind much of the
contemporary popular music in advertising, film, folk song, blues,
jazz and rock. The guitar was a popular instrument in the
nineteenth century and was played across America with many forms of
popular music. Its comparative rugged simplicity meant it could be
carried on a mule, a horse or a wagon, accompanying prospectors,
cowboys, gamblers, soldiers and many others. Until the arrival of
the mechanical player-pianos and piano rolls in the 1890s, and for
long after that in most situations, all music had been live.
Whenever a group of people gathered of an evening to put their feet
up, along a cattle trail, in a mining camp or frontier saloon -
there was a guitar. When I was learning the guitar there was a
great shortage of easy guitar arrangements of popular tunes and,
whilst not for the beginner, it is hoped that this collection of
guitar solos can be played, after a little practice, by guitarists
with a reasonable level of skill. The songs have endured, not
because of their greatness but because of their popularity with
those masses of working people who sung and heard them. Perhaps, to
paraphrase Carl Sandburg, a great collector of American songs, they
should be ..".overheard, rather than heard."
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