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Never without a Song:

The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952
  • ISBN-13: 9780252063718
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Katharine D. Newman
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/03/1995
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a ''bound-out girl'' along the New York-Pennsylvania border and later lived in Philadelphia and Gloucester, New Jersey. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information about the older woman's life and music. Half a century later, Newman returned to her collection in retirement-with her own perspective of age. The result is a unique biography of an American working-class woman, told with depth and candor. It includes ''I Wish I'd Been Born a Boy,'' ''James Bird,'' ''Martha Decker,'' ''My Grandmother's Old Armchair,'' and other pieces, both British and American, most with tunes.
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