North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy: As Sung in the Backwood Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910

by Henry Wharton Shoemaker and Anonymous

Book Overview

Henry W. Shoemaker was already an established writer of Pennsylvania's popular folklore by the time North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy was published in 1919. While much of Shoemaker's previous work was literary folklore, this volume comprises his first collection of ballads and what has been argued to be one of his most significant contributions to the scholarly folklore conversation.

Compiled by Shoemaker over two decades, with the assistance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271048816
• ISBN13: 9780271048819
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Metalmark Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"