num_pages: 145
description:  
  
  
 "Work songs, love songs, ballads and blues, lullabyies, spirituals, protestsongs, and sheer nonsense make up this entertaining collection of 62traditional and contemporary favorites. The exuberant illustrations manage tobe both familiar and dramatic and range in tone from comic exaggeration tounderstatement and unashamed sentiment. Informal notes at the head of each songgive something about history, origin, performance, and possibilities forvariation. The notes also express the sense of connection with ordinarypeople's lives that is at the heart of this collection."—Booklist(starred) 
language: English
title: Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children
titlecomplete: Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children
genres: Poetry, Music, Nonfiction, Childrens, History
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers