Songs of '76: A Folksinger's History of the Revolution - Paperback

by Oscar Brand (Author)

SONGS OF '76 is a volume of sidelights on the American Revolution from the vantage point of the folk balladeer. There are over 60 songs, with words and guitar accompaniment, all fresh and mostly unfamiliar, along with a delightfully personalized historic commentary. It is an eyewitness report of events that you may never have read about in your history book. Oscar Brand collected these songs from old manuscripts, old newspapers, and from hundreds of accounts of the Revolution. Here are the reactions of ordinary citizens to the Stamp Act and the Boston Massacre, to political unrest and the approaching war, to the men they believed in as heroes and to the men they considered traitors. In fighting songs and accounts of battles, in the words of Tories and colonials, the feelings of the people who inhabited the Revolution emerge as never before.

Author Biography

Oscar Brand (February 7, 1920-September 30, 2016) was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, radio and TV host, and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music ran the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spanned a number of genres. Brand also wrote a number of short stories.