Folk & Traditional

Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and...

In 1908 a local rancher and surveyor by the name of N Howard 'Jack' Thorp walked into the cramped offices of the Estancia News in Estancia, New Mexico, and inquired of the printer about publishing a small book of 'cowboy songs'. For at least nineteen...

Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574242201Author Jim Bob TinsleyPage Count 242Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942155553Author Thomas CurrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Thomas CurrenPublisher Thomas CurrenWeight(grams) 354g

Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol...

for CCBar and piano This entertaining three-part arrangement of the popular sea shanty was written for Cambiata North West. The humorous lyrics are complemented by a jovial piano accompaniment and the piece includes several key changes, allowing...

for bass This exciting new collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world. The bass part, which forms part of the jazz-trio accompaniment, is notated with chord symbols and can be played as written or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061807336Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 431g

Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105392Author Karl AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)...

Bags of American Folk is an introduction to the wonderful world of traditional American music - favourite tunes passed down from one generation to the next, many from the early pioneer days. Written by renowned string teacher and author, Mary Cohen, and...

Three folksongs from the Wild West (Worried Man Blues, Red River Valley/The Colorado Trail and Clementine). The Faber Young Voices series is arranged for upper voices, with an optional low alto or baritone part (for newly changed or unstable voices) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771578776Author David MarlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 999Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205214090Author Ulrich MorgensternFormat HardbackImprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau Verlag

In Roma Music and Emotion, author Filippo Bonini Baraldi forges a much-needed theory of music, emotion, and empathy from an anthropological perspective, addressing the failure of the prevailing psychological theories on music and emotion to account for...

Diverse musical cultures of migrant and minority communities have existed in Europe for centuries and shaped its countries significantly. As part of an EU-funded project this volume deals with the musical activities of minorities and their impact on...

Taiwan aboriginal song has received extensive media coverage since the launch and settlement of a copyright lawsuit following pop group Enigma's allegedly unauthorized use of Amis voices in the 1996 Olympics hit, Return To Innocence. Taking as her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957559363Author Dave HadfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scratching Shed Publishing LtdPublisher Scratching Shed Publishing LtdDimensions(mm)...

for SATB choir and piano This exciting collection gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world, including 'Scarborough Fair', 'A la claire fontaine', and 'Waltzing Matilda' as you've never heard them before! Each song is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520508Author Liam ClancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737524502Author Peter StampfelFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Don Giovanni RecordsPublisher Don Giovanni Records

The Nashville we know today is a glitzy big business characterized by entertainment lawyers, social media strategies, and buff, shiny entertainers writing about pick-up trucks, tractors, and dirt roads in air-conditioned, corporate offices. But, back...

A series of little books of short carefully graded folk tunes beginning with the simplest passages and progressing to more difficult leaps, rhythms, chromatics, and modulations. The later books introduce two-part sight singing.About the AuthorThe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957612013Author Ian CumpsteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Northern Displayers, Skadi PressPublisher Northern Displayers, Skadi PressDimensions(mm)...

In Electric Folk - Revival and Transformation of English Traditional Music, Britta Sweers chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. She characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the...

The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486282763Author John A. LomaxPage Count 664Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501173196Author Editor and Contributor Jonathan CottFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385680387Author Alan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 474g

Acclaimed Scottish singer Jean Redpath (1937-2014) is best remembered for her impressive repertoire of ancient ballads, Robert Burns songs, and contemporary folk music, recorded and performed over a career spanning some fifty years, from the 1960s until...

Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music...

Americana is a music that defies definition. It isn't rock, although it does encompass rock. It isn't folk, but folk is there. It isn't Celtic, but it is woven with Celtic threads. It is a blend of forms, music that draws on a wide range of influences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862433628Author Y LolfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390981Author Alec WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with...

Irish-born and Irish-descended soldiers and sailors were involved in every major engagement of the American Civil War. Throughout the conflict, they shared their wartime experiences through songs and song lyrics, leaving behind a vast trove of ballads in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470632892Author Alfred MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 226mm * 13mm