State Songs of the United States: An Annotated Anthology

Even on this side of the Atlantic such songs as Old Folks at Home, The Yellow Rose of Texas and Yankee Doodle are or were reasonably well known, but less familiar will be My Michigan, Hail! Minnesota or Rhode Island March Song. Ignorance can hereby be remedied: official and unofficial songs of each state are included with words and music. Most have texts in English (for Hawaii and New Mexico we are given the local vernacular), and there are notes on the authors and composers of each song together with some account of why and when each...