Campfire Stomp: A Song History

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"Campfire Stomp" is one of fourteen tunes in DulciFlute 2, John Keane and Karen Keane's second book of duets for mountain dulcimer and Native American flute, published by Fingers Of Steel.[1] According to the listing, the book offers original songs by the pair for the two instruments together, though it does not say which of them wrote this one.[1] Based in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Keanes are music educators and performers, endorsing artists and instructors for Folkcraft Instruments, and the authors of several books and CDs of original music for mountain dulcimer and Native American flute.[2][3] MP3 recordings of every song, played as written, are included with the book's download.[1] The sources consulted here offer no account of when the tune was written or how it got its name.[1][2][3]

Soldiers in blue uniforms gathered around a cooking fire under a tripod of poles, one kneeling with a frying pan

Thomas Nast, Life in Camp – "Preparing for Supper", hand-colored lithograph, 1863. Shown for its campfire; it has no connection to the tune.

Merriam-Webster records the verb stomp from 1803 and the noun from around 1899, though that noun date belongs to a different sense from the one it defines as a jazz dance distinguished by heavy, stamping steps.[4]

Our book that contains the song "Campfire Stomp"

Sources

  1. Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciFlute 2".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
  3. DulcimerDownloads: "Karen Keane".
  4. Merriam-Webster: "Stomp".
  5. Image: Thomas Nast, Life in Camp – "Preparing for Supper", hand-colored lithograph, 1863. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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