Our Singing Country - A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs

by John A. Lomax

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.

Genres: Music, Anthologies

456 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2000

About the author

John Avery Lomax was an American teacher and a musicologist.

Reviews

[Tracey]

Sheet music (and some folk lyrics without music). More songs collected by Lomax, c. 1941, but in this second volume more than half come with sheet music, plus anecdotes from the folks contributing the songs. Though I probably won't learn more than a couple of these songs (since I neither attend "play parties" or belong to a chain gang), I do feel like it's another national treasure of historical import.

[Theophilus (Theo)]

I really liked the old Negro spirituals. I especially liked the collection of old work gang songs.