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Read [Ron Pen Book] ! I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician's character and career. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. At the age of sixteen N
| Title | : | I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813125979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
The book succeeds as a study of an important twentieth-century musician and composer, but it also provides a springboard for future studies on the nature of folk music and the meaning of the Appalachian region."Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association""The crazy-quilt pattern of American history includes few musicologists with Niles' breadth; his story is an unlikely and fascinating one. John B. "A gracefully written biography of a performing artist, composer, and folklore collector who was a powerful cultural force in twentieth-century America." Alan Jabbour, founding director of the American Folklife Center
Ron Pen, associate professor of music and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky, is the editor of The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles and of Jean Ritchie's Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians.
"Biography of my father John Jacob Niles" according to John E. Niles. I am perhaps not the most objective party here, but still I did want to weigh in on this book.This biography is very accurate if somewhat detailed almost to a fault.There are things discussed in the book that I really did not know about. Never the less, it does very accurately cover some of the more interesting parts of my father's life.The one MOST important thing in the book is the accounting of the genesis of "I wonder as I wander." This very popularChristmas song has always been the s. Joseph Cowart said A forgotten hero of American culture.. This book traces the life of an American original from his youth in Louisville, through his life as a veteran of WWI, collector and performer of traditional folk songs, savior of songs which would have been lost without his research and his family. John Jacob Niles was a renaisance man who could build his own instruments, and furniture and grow his own food. Equally at home on his tractor at his Kentucky home and white tie and tails in New York, Niles married a white Russian and they rais. Fabulous Storytelling smk5w Dr. Ron Pen is a fabulous storyteller. I wasn't super interested in John Jacob Niles before reading the book, but I have come to appreciate Niles and his role as a musician, scholar, and Kentuckian. More than that, however, Pen's book held my interest because it discusses the fascinating topic of original composition versus "song catching." How does one authentically chronicle others' culture with integrity? How does a musician compose their own music under the influence of another cultur
This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician's character and career. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, "Go 'Way from My Window," basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. Niles's dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. In the 1920s he collabora
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