Program notes including detailed contents, performer credits, essays on the music, and texts of the songs laid in. Songs with various instrumental accompaniments. This album, together with the public radio project entitled A change of tears...was funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and from TOSCO. Various vocalists and instrumentalists, Joseph Byrd, conductor. A production of the Yankee Doodle Society, Los Angeles, Calif.
Contents:
Music of the stage and concert hall -- Early blackface minstrelsy -- Songs of the Hutchinson family -- Sentimental ballads -- Amateurs and musical societies -- Shape-note singing.
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