Folk & Traditional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486410890Author John A. LomaxPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new prefaceThe twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new prefaceAbout the AuthorGrammy Award winner Neil V. Rosenberg is professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511099Author Rick SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood Books

An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the...

Almost 20 years ago Michael Brocken created from his doctoral research, what became both a seminal and contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk Revival up to that point in time: The British Folk Revival 1944-2002. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458416544Author Ian WhitcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national honors and adorns U.S. postage stamps, and although his song "This Land Is Your Land" is often considered...

The South -- an inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musicians -- plays a defining role in American musical history. It is impossible to think of American music of the past century without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608324Author Peter CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637020Author Mat CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953208002Author Bertram LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Rollston PressPublisher Rollston PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981811529Author Jane PepplerFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Skylark ProductionsPublisher Skylark ProductionsWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Performing Arts) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781770411326Author Malka MaromFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint ECW...

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the...

Freedom Fields takes its name from a skirmish which took place on 3rd December 1643. The album contains a compelling array of songs inspired by the West Country and explores the turmoil of conflict, war and freedom. Several songs are about the area's...

Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific...

Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501189401Author Bob DylanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 132mm *...

This study reconstructs the history of the folk-music revival in the States, tracing its origins to the early decades of the 20th century. Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manuscript collections, as well as his own extensive files, Cohen...

How do marginalized communities speak back to power when they are excluded from political processes and socially denigrated? In what ways do they use music to sound out their unique histories and empower themselves? How can we hear their voices behind...

Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music offers a detailed exploration of Nordic ritual folk music, a music scene focused on the revival of ancient folkways and archaic music that has found remarkable popularity...

Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954016005Author Alan ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kinmor MusicPublisher Kinmor MusicWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 203mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935243793Author Julia LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Loomis House PressPublisher Loomis House PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 273mm *...

Coros y Danzas explores how women of the early Franco regime adapted musical folklore and Spanish nationalism according to different political circumstances. Author Daniel David Jordan focuses on the end of the Spanish Civil War until the Pact of Madrid...

A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then-twenty years later-a band. The Flatlanders-Joe Ely, Jimmie...

Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as...

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

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering...

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that...

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Folk Music: TheBasics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music:...

Bags of American Folk for Cello 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...

In medieval Occitania (southern France), troubadours and monastic creators fostered a vibrant musical culture. In response to the early Crusade campaigns of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Christians of the region turned to producing monophonic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604869576Author Gabriel San RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 65g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732612150Author Pipp GilletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Rollston PressPublisher Rollston PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Nnwonkoro is a genre of women's song found among the Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. It has become a hybrid musical form, incorporating songs and dance movements based on traditional practices alongside others reflecting Christian influence. Nnwonkoro...

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi's rich, old-time fiddle tradition was...