{"product_id":"sweet-thing-the-history-and-musical-structure-of-a-shared-american-vernacular-form-hardcover","title":"Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Stoia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs children, many of us learn to sing, \"If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.\" But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern, the \"Sweet Thing\" scheme, has generated a large group of songs spanning a broad range of topics, genres, and time periods, but all related through a specific stanzaic form. Early twentieth-century blues songs \"My Babe\" and \"Motherless Children,\" country songs \"Peg and Awl\" and \"Crawdad Song,\" and gospel songs \"Pure Religion\" and \"This Train\" use this form, along with popular songs like Ray Charles's \"I Got a Woman,\" The Beatles's \"One After 909,\" and the Velvet Underground's \"I'm Waiting for the Man.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form\u003c\/em\u003e studies one of the most productive and enduring shared musical resources in North American vernacular music. Author Nicholas Stoia offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the long history of the \"Sweet Thing\" scheme, exploring how it made its way from sixteenth-century Scotland to eighteenth-century British broadside ballads to nineteenth-century American ragtime. Stoia also examines the form in various contexts, including early blues and country music, and moving forward to rhythm and blues, soul, and rock music, connecting these modern forms to their ancient roots. Through this close look at a ubiquitous musical from, \u003cem\u003eSweet Thing\u003c\/em\u003e shows us how it has linked listeners and musicians alike across the boundaries of genre, race, and even time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Stoia\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eMusic Theory Spectrum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMusic Theory Online\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMusic Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRace and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 10.1 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790603190560,"sku":"9780190881979","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c6602994107986d8e1e22de2e95f0bc8.webp?v=1780681127","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sweet-thing-the-history-and-musical-structure-of-a-shared-american-vernacular-form-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}