Format:
Book + CD, Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording, Book
Title:
Folksongs of Illinois #1 [sound recording] / Illinois Humanities Council.
Publisher, Date:
Chicago, Ill. : Illinois Humanities Council ; [Urbana, Ill.] : University of Illinois Press [distributor], c2007.
Description:
1 sound disc (65 min.) : sd. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 p. : ill.; 12 cm.)
Summary:
Contains a selection of songs and music about and from Illinois, including country ballads, Polish polkas, Irish reels, Mexican-American corridos, labor anthems, Scandinavian waltzes, African-American gospel hymns, Serbo-Croatian kolos, bluegrass songs and ethnic comedy skits.
Series:
Folksongs of Illinois ; no. 1
Subjects:
Folk songs, English -- Illinois.
Country music -- Illinois.
American wit and humor.
Working class -- Songs and music.
Blues (Music)
Illinois -- Songs and music.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Other Author:
Halker, Bucky.
Saylor, Nicole.
Illinois Humanities Council.
Notes:
Title from container.
Liner notes written by Bucky Halker and Nicole Saylor.
Sponsored in part by the We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Illinois General Assembly and the Illinois Arts Council.
Contents:
Nine pound hammer / Special Consensus (2:46). -- Down by the Embarras / Art Thieme (3:22). -- Cairo blues / Henry Spaulding (2:41). -- Dzuira polka / Polish Mountaineers (4:38). -- Mississippi flood / Jon Langford and Kelly Hogan (3:26). -- Morning dew - Travelers- Shark's favorite reels / Eleanor Kane Neary (2:42). -- The Hanging of Charlie Birger / Janet Bean (3:34). -- Hop big-eyed rabbit / Orval Hale (0:58). -- Down by the pickle works, part I / Herr Louis Weaselis & Hungry Five (2:59). -- Too late / Mervin "Skeet" Evans, Ken Williams, Arlin Dietz (2:32).
Prijedorska carsija / Tamburitza Orchestra Javor (2:50). -- Jay Gould's daughter / Carl Sandburg (1:36). -- I love the Lord / Deacon James Bigg & St. John Missionary Baptist Church Choir (2:55). -- The Dying miner / Bucky Halker (5:14). -- El Corrido de Texas / Silvano Ramos & Daniel Ramirez (3:20). -- La Gui-Annee / Prairie du Rocher Singers (3:13). -- Lonely cowgirl / The girls of the Golden West (2:10). -- I'm coming home / Staples Singers (6:42). -- Wizard oil / Blue Grass Roy (0:37).
ISBN:
9780252032424
025203242X
Publisher or Distributor Number:
IHC07-01
Other Number:
124075432
System Availability:
29
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
2064032
Call Number:
CD-3
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
28
Medium:
[sound recording]