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van Doren, Mark | December 7, 1927 issue

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Writer Carl Sandburg's "The American Songbag," is a collection of tunes and words if one like, it is something more. The author chooses to agree with Sandburg, who insists that it is a contribution to American history. It is so, in an entirely serious sense. "It will give," says Sandburg, speaking of the ideal book to which his is an approach, "the feel and atmosphere, the layout and lingo, of regions, of breeds of men, of customs and slogans, in a manner and an air not given in regular history to be read and not sung. And besides, such a history would require that the student sing his way through most of the chapters.

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AMERICAN Songbag, The (Book); SANDBURG, Carl, 1878-1967; UNITED States -- History; BOOKS; LIBRARY materials; UNITED States
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