Your singers will love this rollicking, feel good arrangement of a well-loved American folk song, complete with refreshing new lyrics. A playful piano part adds to the overall Appalachian flavor. Pure fun!
THE STORY: The play follows the lives of a family of settlers in the Appalachian Mountains. Father has found a plot of land which pleases him greatly, despite the fact that it is on a mountain slope and not in the more fertile farming land of the v
A collection of songs based on the five-tone pentatonic scale. The natural chants and games of children and folk songs of all cultures show a sound and natural basis for developing music literacy of wonderful, familiar childhood songs to use as supplementary materials for teachers using the pentatonic approach.
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Novel of a pregnant girl from the North Carolina mountains, Ishma Waycaster, who left home to work in a mill town and found drabness and tragedy. In the mill town she becomes involved in union activity and a strike (modeled after the Gastonia Strike of 1929). Burke provides a remarkably honest portrayal of the conflicts between Ishma's sexual and emotional needs and her intellectual and political loyalties, and of the racial issues raised by the strike.