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History
It would be nice to have a section on the history of this song. Is anybody up for writing one?
Jynx~dewiki (
talk) 04:50, 24 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Untitled
I correct the article.
Holger Terp
Early prints
Ain't gonna study war no more / Down by the riverside is first printed in “Plantation Melodies” Chicago, the Rodeheaver Company, 1918.
Other early prints of Ain't gonna study war no more / Down by the riverside is:
Dann, Hollis. Ed.: Fifty-eight spirituals for choral use - Boston, C. C. Birchard & Co., c1924. No notes.
Utica Jubilee Singers Spirituals : As Sung at the Utica Normal and Indusrtial Institute of Missisippi / Taken down by J. Rosamond Johnson. With introduction by C. W. Hyne. Boston : Olivar Ditson Company, nd. Negro Spiritual. Apparently no recordings of Down by the riverside, even though the song vere on the groups repertoire.
Boatner, Edward: Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New (Round Note Edition) : National Baptist Convention, Nashville Tennessee Date Published: (1927). No notes.
Fisher,William Arms: 1926, Seventy Negro Spirituals, edited for low voice. Oliver Ditson Company, NY, sheet music format, pp. 60-62. Noted as Negro Spiritual.
Deas, E. C. 1928: Songs and spirituals of Negro composition:
Thanks. You can correct the article if you like. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any free e-texts of Rodeheaver's Plantation Melodies on the web, even though it's presumably out of copyright. --
Zundark (
talk) 18:39, 21 May 2011 (UTC)reply
This is an old, old song . . .
The article mentions the first publication date as 1918, which is all well and good, but I was taught in grammar school that this song was popularly sung during the Civil War era. I don't have any documentation to back that up at all, so I figure adding that information to the article would fall under "original research" and thus rightly be removed. But I'm wondering if anybody else has any sources to back this up? (Musichealth.net mentions this older history, but seeing as they don't cite their sources, I figure it wouldn't be considered a reliable source by Wikipedia standards.) — Preceding
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24.44.178.27 (
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Referenced by
Referenced by Robert A. Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_: “Nevertheless, let's assume the human race manages to balance birth and death... and thereby becomes peaceful. What happens? Soon (about next Wednesday) the Bugs move in, kill off this breed which 'ain't gonna study war no more' and the universe forgets us.... Both races are tough and smart and want the same real estate....But does man have any 'right' to spread throughout the universe?...The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any 'right' to expand through it.” — Preceding
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108.51.53.24 (
talk) 23:15, 12 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Sometimes if you arrange a public-domain song, you receive songwriting credit for that arrangement (see
[1]). Not sure what exactly happened with this song...
AnonMoos (
talk) 07:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)reply