Folk Songs of the Catskills

by Norman Studer, Herbert Haufrecht, Norman Cazden

Part of the ancient Appalachians and just a few miles up the road from a massive metropolitan area, the Catskills have been home to the variety of people who have made the history of the New World.

The songs collected here reflect this history. They are songs of rafting and lumbering, war and railroads, prison and hard times, and nonsense and drinking. And they are songs of love--tragic love, thwarted love, foolish love--and sometimes even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873955811
• ISBN13: 9780873955812
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.8"