John I. White (1902–1992)
Autor de American vignettes : a collection of footnotes to history
Sobre El Autor
John I. White sang cowboy songs on New York radio stations and recorded for the American Record Corporation while he held a full-time position with a major map publishing firm. In 1965 he retired from business and began writing articles about Americana; these have appeared in a number of mostrar más periodicals, including The American West, American Heritage, Yankee, and American History Illustrated. mostrar menos
Obras de John I. White
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- White, John Irwin
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1902
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1992
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- Columbia University
- Ocupaciones
- Cowboy singer
cartographer
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 119
- Popularidad
- #166,388
- Valoración
- 2.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 3
- Idiomas
- 1
But John I. White was writing for love of the music. He was not a cowboy, but he really did work with cowboy poets, and got to know them, and tried to understand them. Probably he didn't know them as well as other cowboys would. But he does a fine job of "translating" the life of the cowboy for ordinary people.
And he certainly hits the big names -- Curly Fletcher (author of "The Strawberry Roan"), Charles Badger Clark (author of "A Border Affair/Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" and "High Chin Bob"), Gail Gardner (author of "The Sierry Petes/Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail"), and more. There are books with more cowboy songs. As far as I know, there are no other books with more information about the songs and their writers. My primary wish is that it were longer. For those interested in this sort of music, it is an indispensable book.… (más)