Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States
Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
ISBN: 978-1-62846-206-7
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
In Songs of Sorrow renowned music scholar Samuel Charters tells McKim's personal story. Letters reveal the story of young women's lives during the harsh years of the war. At the same time that her arrangements of the songs were being published, a man with whom she had an unofficial ""attachment"" was killed in battle, and the war forced her to temporarily abandon her work.
In 1865 she married Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and in the early months of their marriage she proposed that they turn to the collection of slave songs that had long been her dream. She and her husband--a founder and literary editor of the recently launched journal The Nation--enlisted the help of two associates who had also collected songs in the Sea Islands. Their book, Slave Songs of the United States, appeared in 1867. After a long illness, ultimately ending in paralysis, she died at the age of thirty-four in 1877. This book reclaims the story of a pioneer in ethnomusicology, one whose influential work affected the Fisk Jubilee Singers and many others.