Rise Up Singing

Rise Up Singing

Infobox Book
name = Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Songbook
author = Peter Blood & Annie Patterson (eds)
country = USA
language = English
subject = folk and popular music
genre = fake book
publisher = Sing Out! Corporation
release_date = 1988
media_type =
pages = 288
isbn = ISBN 0962670472

"Rise Up Singing" is a popular folk music fake book containing chords, lyrics, and sources to 1200 songs. It does not include notation of the songs' melodies (with the exception of the two sections on rounds) and assumes that a user will know the tune to many of the songs. It was first published in 1988 by "Sing Out!". It is edited by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson. The book has 35 different categories of songs arranged in alphabetical order, plus an artist index, subject index, and title index.

Since the book includes only lyrics and chords without notation, it is relatively compact in size and also relatively inexpensive. Recordings of the songs (now available on CD) have been made for each section of the book to be used as a learning tool.

The book is very popular having sold over a million copies. [The book has sold over a million copies according to the [http://www.quakersong.org/annie_and_peter/ Biography of Peter Blood and Annie Patterson] on their web site. [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Up-Singing-Group-Songbook/dp/0962670472 According to Amazon.com] the book has sold tens of thousands of copies.] In the United States there are monthly singalongs where groups gather to sing selections from "Rise Up Singing". [ [http://www.quakersong.org/singalongs/ Singalongs & Round-robins] listed at Peter Blood and Annie Patterson's web site] [ [http://www.singingfestival.com/v2/news/current.shtml Singing events] in East Lansing, Michigan] [cite web |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |title=Shared Song, Communal Memory |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/arts/music/10ratli.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 |format=New York Times web article |accessdate=2008-02-10]

ee also

*Deep Community
*Sing Out!

External links

* [http://www.singout.org/rus.html "Rise Up Singing" page] at the official web site for "Sing Out!"
* [http://www.quakersong.org/rise_up_singing/ "Rise Up Singing" page] at the official web site for Peter Blood and Annie Patterson

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