Negative Space: folk music
- Songs of the American Revolution
- Various songs, and the history of the songs, that made the Revolution—sometimes decades later.
- The World Turned Upside Down
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The legend of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown says that the band played “The World Turned Upside Down”. It probably didn’t. But we’re going to print the legend anyway.
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- The American Songbag (ebook)
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“The American Songbag is a ragbag of strips, stripes, and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth. The melodies and verses presented here are from diverse regions, from varied human characters and communities, and each is sung differently in different places.” (Carl Sandburg)
