Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
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As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Travelling mostly on foot, he collected not just the words of songs, but the tunes, making careful notes about his informants and their performances. Pinery Boys incorporates, commemorates, contextualizes, and complements Rickaby's early work.

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As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Travelling mostly on foot, he collected not just the words of songs, but the tunes, making careful notes about his informants and their performances. Pinery Boys incorporates, commemorates, contextualizes, and complements Rickaby's early work.
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Franz Rickaby (1889-1925) was born in Arkansas, educated at Knox College and Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Dakota. Gretchen Dykstra was the founding president of the National 9/11 Memorial Foundation, commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and president of the Times Square Alliance. James P. Leary is professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include the Grammy-nominated multimedia production Folksongs of Another America.