Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

Patterson discusses the melodic resources of secular folk tradition and American folk-spiritual movement born of the Shakers in North America.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 13 Issue 1-2, 1965, p111-120, il  (Periodical website)

Subject(s):

Spirituals (Songs); Shakers

Record #:

16488

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

Shaker songs and ballads are divided roughly into two groups. Wordless tunes, songs with wordless phrases that recur in formal patterns, and tunes with texts in unknown tongues; and others produced by the intellectual leaders of the sect.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955, p31-37, il  (Periodical website)

Subject(s):

Shakers

Record #:

16516