Folksongs of New Brunswick
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Folk & Traditional
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864921048
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
The folksong tradition of New Brunswick is robust, often satirical, sometimes bawdy and firmly rooted in the working lives of men and women. Folksongs of New Brunswick contains "the fruit of a thirty-year harvest of songs" gathered by Edward (Sandy) Ives along the St. John, the Miramichi, the St. Croix, and every river in between. This book contains the words and music for most of the ballads and stories about the events which gave birth to the songs.
About the author
One of the most respected folklorists in North America, Edward (Sandy) Ives is professor of folklore at the University of Maine at Orono and director of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. His books include Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs, Twenty-One Folksongs from Prince Edward Island, and Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island. In 1998, he was awarded the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation's Award of Honour for lifetime achievement in preserving Island heritage, the first non-Islander to be so recognized.
