Rise Again (songbook)
| Author | Peter Blood and Annie Patterson (eds) |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Folk, popular music |
| Genre | fake book |
| Publisher | Hal Leonard |
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Publication date
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2016 |
| Pages | 304 |
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Rise Again: A Group Singing Songbook is a sequel to the popular folk music fake book Rise Up Singing, containing chords, lyrics, and sources. There are 1200 completely new songs in the 2015 edition. Compiled by Annie Patterson and 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 have the same titles as in Rise Up Singing, but some chapter titles 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).
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.
Work began on a sequel in 1998. Seeger was a member of the initial song selection committee. He originally proposed to Blood and Patterson that they take the new book to Hal Leonard, when it became clear that Sing Out! would be unable to complete the project.
A large community of volunteers helped to create Rise Again, just as had happened with Rise Up Singing and its prequel Winds of the People. Although the new collection remains weighted towards folk music, the new book includes full chapters of standards from many musical genres including blues, country, bluegrass music, Motown, Broadway show tunes, and Alternative-Indie songs. A number of experts lent advice on particular genres including Mary Flower (for blues) and John Roberts (musician) (for English traditional songs), and Joe Offer (one of the moderators of the Mudcat Café), and Johanna Halbeisen (curator of the New Song Library).
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