Singing Soldiers

Niles, John J.

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927

Beschreibung

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 171p. The author researched the songs that the American soldiers sang in World War I. He noticed most of the white soldiers relied on what came from Tin Pan Alley but the black soldiers (he uses the older term Negro) were creative and honest ranging from words about spirituals to crap shooting to death. Not only did it expose the writer to the big city blues but the authentic blues of the Mississippi delta. W.H. Handy was one of the figures he consulted. Although the black soldier was often delegated to digging ditches, latrines, helping trucks move, there are cases of those who were sharpshooters and one who manned a machine gun. Upper front corner bumped. Faint price stamping on upper and lower fore-edges. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016675

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Singing Soldiers

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1927

Einband: Cloth Hard Cover

Illustrator: Margaret Thorniley Williamson

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: First Edition.