Word: songs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient Olympics, their background is strongly national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name for Czech folk-song heroes. During the years of Habsburg dominance, Sokol groups served to keep Czech nationalism alive. When the World War broke out members filtered into Allied armies, formed Sokol legions to fight their old masters. Today, the Sokol numbers some 800,000 men, women and children, one out of every...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
Last week mountain folk from near & far gathered on the hills near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman...
...made his stand, and you know he's tried; He's made many friends on the Republican side; He's balanced the budget with revenue; He's brought back whiskey and the three point two. An older one. called the Tennessee Evolution Song, commemorates Tennessee's famous Scopes Trial: Then to Dayton came a man with his ideas so grand, And he said we sprang from monkeys long ago; But in teaching his belief Mr. Scopes found only grief, For they would not let their old religion...
Among the various plenties that abound in the U. S., the most indigenous and widespread is the plenty of Nothing that almost any U. S. citizen will admit he's got. This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward...