The Music of American Folk Song and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

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The Music of American Folk Song and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

Ruth Crawford seeger. Edited by Larry Polansky with Judith Tick. With a Historical Introduction by Judith Tick and Forewords by Pete, Mike, and Peggy seeger. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2001 (pbk 2003). 156 pp. Music. Indexes. ISBN 1-58046-095-X (hbk); ISBN 1-58046-136-0 (pbk); ISSN 1071-9989. £17.99/US$24.95. <http://www.urpress.com/>

This treatise, by Ruth Crawford seeger (hereafter RCS), is 'based on observations made during ...

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