Rise Again Songbook

Rise Again Singing: The Group-Singing Songbook
Author Peter Blood & Annie Patterson (eds)
Country USA
Language English
Subject Folk, popular music
Genre fake book
Publisher Hal Leonard
Publication date
 2016
Pages 304
ISBN 1480331899

Rise Again Songbook is a sequel[1] to the popular folk music fake book Rise Up Singing, containing chords, lyrics, and sources. There are 1200 new songs in the 2015 edition. Compiled by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood. Released in 2016 by Hal Leonard Books.

Songs in Rise Again are grouped by chapters just as in Rise Up Singing. Chapters are arranged alphabetically, as are songs within chapters.

Some chapters are the same as in Rise Up Singing, but some are different. The main change is that the new songbook has a number of new song genre chapters reflecting the inclusion of more songs from genres other than folk music. There are now whole chapters devoted to blues, country music, jazz, early rock & roll, British rock, Motown, and other US rock (including a chapter focusing on "millennial" popular songs written since 1995).

Content

Rise Again contains words & chords to 1200 songs.[2] There is no overlap with the songs in Rise Up Singing. As in Rise Up Singing, songs include words & chords only. Music is included only for rounds. Rise Again includes three indices - by recording artist, by culture & special genres, and by title.

Format

The format to Rise Again Songbook is very similar to Rise Up Singing. The book is spiral-bound with a sturdy cover. Bookstores also sell a paperback version. It is available in both 7 1/2"x10" and a larger 9"x12" format. Both versions are identical in content. Songs are grouped into 39 chapters by song genre or subject matter. Songs are alphabetized by title within each chapter. The chapters themselves are also sorted alphabetically. Chords are written out as in Rise Up Singing under the first verse, the chorus and any other section of the song like a bridge.Type fonts are larger than in Rise Up Singing due to narrower margins and other adjustments to increase legibility in both the 7 1/2x10 and the 9x12 formats.

The book includes hand-drawn illustrations. The cover drawing is by Mary Azarian. The large banner illustrations at the beginning of each chapter are the book's co-editor Annie Patterson. Interior chapter drawings are by Annie, Meghan Merker (who was the main illustrator for Sing Out Magazine for over 30 years) or by Mona Shiber.

Pete Seeger, who wrote the introduction to Rise Up Singing, wrote a moving preface to Rise Again a year before he died. Billy Bragg wrote the forward to Rise Again. The book does not include notation of the songs' melodies (with the exception of the two sections on rounds), meaning that users must either know the tune, or find a recording, to be able to learn many of the songs. It was first published in 1988 by Sing Out!. It is edited by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson. Songs are arranged by category: there are 35 different categories arranged in alphabetical order, plus artist, subject, title, culture, holiday and musicals indices.

Since the book includes only lyrics and chords without notation, it is relatively compact in size and also relatively inexpensive. Recordings of the songs, which can be used as learning tools, have been made for each song in the book, and are now available on CD. Only enough of each song is included to learn the tune; not all verses are sung.

In the United States and Canada, there are scores of monthly sings (singalongs) where groups gather to sing selections from Rise Up Singing.[3][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/famed-songbook-rise-up-singing-gets-a-sequel-rise-again/Content?oid=2934979
  2. ↑ https://www.riseupandsing.org/songbooks/rise-again
  3. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (2008-02-10). "Shared Song, Communal Memory". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
  4. ↑ Singalongs & Round-robins listed at Peter Blood and Annie Patterson's web site
  5. ↑ Singing events

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