A half size, 22-page zine about the folk music of Pennsylvania. Within her wild woodland borders lies a key crossroads between the common folk inheritance of the Appalachian Mountain Region and the gloomy, industrial mood of the Rust Belt spanning across the Great Lakes.
Throughout the eighteenth century, immigrants from southwestern Germany (encompassing the Palatinate, Baden, Alsace, Würtemberg, and Hesse) as well as Saxony, Silesia, and Switzerland, settled throughout Pennsylvania in such large numbers that they occupied one-third of the land area of the Commonwealth. Volume four of The Little Book of Pennsylvania Folk Songs explores the musical traditions of the Pennsilfaanisch Deitsche, commonly known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, as they evolved over hundreds of years. Five songs are featured here, including Dadd Driwwe (Over There), Schpinn Schpinn (Spin, Spin), In Einem Keihlen Grunde (In Yonder Lovely Valley), Hawwer Reche (Raking Oats), and Der Jug Hot En Loch (The Jug Has A Hole) as well as a collection of beautiful Fraktur illustrations courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Please reach out through my contact form if you are a folklorist or musician who can’t afford the fee and I’ll be happy to send this PDF along for free.
A half size, 22-page zine about the folk music of Pennsylvania. Within her wild woodland borders lies a key crossroads between the common folk inheritance of the Appalachian Mountain Region and the gloomy, industrial mood of the Rust Belt spanning across the Great Lakes.
Throughout the eighteenth century, immigrants from southwestern Germany (encompassing the Palatinate, Baden, Alsace, Würtemberg, and Hesse) as well as Saxony, Silesia, and Switzerland, settled throughout Pennsylvania in such large numbers that they occupied one-third of the land area of the Commonwealth. Volume four of The Little Book of Pennsylvania Folk Songs explores the musical traditions of the Pennsilfaanisch Deitsche, commonly known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, as they evolved over hundreds of years. Five songs are featured here, including Dadd Driwwe (Over There), Schpinn Schpinn (Spin, Spin), In Einem Keihlen Grunde (In Yonder Lovely Valley), Hawwer Reche (Raking Oats), and Der Jug Hot En Loch (The Jug Has A Hole) as well as a collection of beautiful Fraktur illustrations courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Please reach out through my contact form if you are a folklorist or musician who can’t afford the fee and I’ll be happy to send this PDF along for free.
