Cover for Yesterday’s Songs Transformed
Here’s the cover! Click on it for a larger view.
Mark Mandel now has the draft for copy editing. I hope to have the book up for sale on Smashwords before long.
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My writing
Yesterday’s Songs Transformed: Update 1
Yesterday’s Songs Transformed is getting close to completion. I’m working on the introduction, which traditionally is one of the last things you write. It deals with the relationship of the book to Tomorrow’s Songs Today. TST is about filk music. YST grows out of my interest in filk. It puts the rewriting of song lyrics into a bigger context. I expect a large part of my audience to be people interested in filk, people who love the idea of replacing old lyrics with new ones. I also hope that other music lovers will get enjoyment out of it.
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Yesterday’s Songs Transformed: Progress Report 1 2
This weekend I made a big step forward on my book, Yesterday’s Songs Transformed. I took some of the accumulated material and started building chapters out of it. Here’s what I have so far:
- 1: Living Songs
- 2: Ancient and Medieval Songs
- 3: The Child and Grandchild Ballads
- 4: The Unfortunate Rake
- 5: Colonial America
- 6: The American Civil War
- 7: Approaching the Modern Age