Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
- ISBN-10
- 1578067421
- ISBN-13
- 9781578067428
- Category
- Folk songs, English
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Author
- Alan L. Spurgeon
Description
"This is the first book since the 1930s to study this important and little-remembered phenomenon of American folk culture. The author interviewed a large number of older Americans, both black and white, who performed play parties as young adults. A songbook of ninety musical examples and lyrics completes the picture of this vanished tradition."--Jacket.
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