Study of the Maine lumberman and ballad maker, his songs, and the world in which he and his songs lived and moved. This study advances the notion of the folk-song creator as artist. Green cloth binding, 473 pages including Appendix (Informants and Correspondents), Bibliography, and Index. Hardcover.

Joe Scott: The Woodsman-Songmaker (Music in American Life)

Arts & Photography

Ives, Edward D.

Music

University of Illinois Press

George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law (Folklore and Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as a folk hero within the context of the conservation movement, the cult of the sportsman, and Maine's increasingly restrictive game laws. "A rich and subtle book, an important work by a major scholar. . . . It is a major contribution to folklore studies, and to history and American studies as well." -- Journal of American Folklore

History

Americas

The murder of the popular Earle of Moray in 1592 near Edinburgh was the stuff of which legends are made. This inviting volume explores that legend, relates details of the Huntly-Moray (Catholic-Protestant) feud, and traces the ballad of the slain ''Bonny Earl'' through its four centuries of growth and change.''A romp! A fine book that will be welcomed by literature students, folklorists, and those interested in Scottish history.'' -- Roger D. Abrahams, author of Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South''A graceful and gripping account by a scholar whose love of scholarship, music, and teaching is obvious throughout.'' -- Marta Weigle, coeditor of The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad

The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad (Folklore and Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders — nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward Island until his death in Brewer, Maine in 1917. Larry Gorman composed satirical songs about friend and foe, relative and stranger, without fear or favour.  This new edition of Sandy Ives's celebrated book features more than 70 of Gorman's songs, 29 with music.

Larry Gorman (International Folklore)

Arts & Literature

Ayer Co. Pub

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.

Folksongs of New Brunswick

Goose Lane Editions

The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ of Tennessee Pr

Since 1980, The Tape-Recorded Interview has been an essential resource for folklorists and oral historians - indeed, for anyone who uses a tape recorder in field research. When this book was first published, the reel-to-reel recorder was the favored format for fieldwork. Because the cassette recorder has almost completely replaced it, Ives has revised the first chapter, How a Tape Recorder Works, accordingly and has included a useful discussion of the differences between analog and digital recording. He has also added a brief section on video, updated the bibliography, and reworked his original comments on tape cataloguing and transcription. As in the first edition, Ives's emphasis is on documenting the lives of common men and women. He offers a careful, step-by-step tour through the collection process - finding informants, making advance preparations, conducting the actual interview, obtaining a release - and then describes the procedures for processing the taped interview and archiving such materials for future use. He also gives special treatment to such topics as recording music, handling group interviews, and using photographs or other visual material during interviews.

Univ Tennessee Press

Beginning in the 1950s, folklorist Edward "Sandy" Ives conducted fieldwork in Prince Edward Island, gathering first-hand the evidence of a rich and varied folk culture: its folksongs. Drive Dull Care Away is a beautifully written memoir of how he collected these songs. Set within his story are lyrics, music, and annotations for 59 of these songs. An accompanying CD, remastered from Dr. Ives's original field recordings, provides readers with examples of a traditional style of performing that has now largely vanished. In Drive Dull Care Away, Sandy Ives integrates the songs themselves, the culture that fostered them, the singers, and, for the first time, the folklorist. In so doing, this master storyteller creates a memorable portrait of a traditional culture on the cusp of dramatic change.

Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs from Prince Edward Island

Inst for Island Studies

This book is as fascinating as going through your grandmother's attic, and it smells a whole lot better! And even at that, most of us do not have grandmothers whose attics are filled with as much fascinating stuff as Irene Morse Bartlett's. Marie Locke found her grandmother's attic captivating during her summers on Little Cranberry Island as a child. She discovered an eclectic mix of merchandise from the Island's turn-of-the-century general store, as well as glass plate negatives from photographs of the Island taken by Bartlett's father, Fred Morse, around the turn-of-the-century. From these childhood explorations of the attic came a grown person's curiosity about life on Little Cranberry Island at the turn-of-the-century. So, Marie Locke asked her grandmother, Irene Morse Bartlett, to tell her about what life was like on the Island when she was a child. The reminiscences of Irene Bartlett illustrate the photographs, rather than the other way around. Combined with the Morse photographs, and pictures of the objects of everyday life as found in a general store, these Memories of a Maine Island make for fascinating reading.

Memories of a Maine Island: Turn-Of-The-Century Tales & Photographs (Northeast Folklore, V. 33)

Montgomery, Nancy

Locke, Marie

Montgomery, Nancy A.

MacDougall, Pauleen M.

Maine Folklife Center

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