Folk & Traditional

In applying the term "folk music" to the music they were collecting, early nineteenth-century Swedish folklorists saturated it with the cultural currency of romantic nationalism. These collectors promoted the music as the essence of the rural peasant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934231067Author Lucia WoofterFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Access EducationPublisher Access EducationWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952077036Author Caroline McCaskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint AltstringsPublisher AltstringsWeight(grams) 104g

The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan's unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything. As a naive folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952077074Author Caroline McCaskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint AltstringsPublisher AltstringsWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952077029Author Caroline McCaskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint AltstringsPublisher AltstringsWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952077005Author Caroline McCaskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint AltstringsPublisher AltstringsWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716249914Author Louise Wright PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312530904Author Ellen S WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 268g

Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540223586Author Ron JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 386g

Three men's lives, told through the story of one song. Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer and writer behind the classic hit "Mr. Bojangles," never would have expected that his song, inspired by an experience in a New Orleans jail cell, would make Richard...

Israel G. "Izzy" Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a...

Arlo Guthrie, the son of America's legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City's remnant Old Left culture, a period that brought together art,...

Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn provides a fascinating examination of the musical instrument the alphorn, alphorn music and its performance. Indeed, it is the first book about this extraordinary instrument to appear in English. It analyses...

A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their...

A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the 19th century. The book presents the music once heard on the schooners and offers a first hand musical picture of how sailors once lived aboard these ships...

Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the "Liza Jane" family of songs, including the most popular variant "Li’l...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476690131Author Hal E PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording...

Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the "Liza Jane" family of songs, including the most popular variant "Li’l...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087986777Author D BogieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 104g

This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader...

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malbouf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s. After his military service, Tommy found occasional work surveying and operating heavy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825673009Author Ronald D. LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schirmer Trade BooksPublisher Schirmer Trade Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478565Author Rob YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In American music, the notion of ""roots"" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied...

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music...

Cipriano Frederico Vigil is the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This bilingual panoramic book presents the songs that are his life's work, spanning half a century of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692464601Author Edward RenehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)...

Around 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among Texas-Mexicans. Manuel Pena's The Texas-Mexican Con;unto is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk style. The author's exhaustive...

At the heart of traditional song rest the concerns of ordinary people. And folk throughout the centuries have found themselves entangled with the law: abiding by it, breaking it, and being caught and punished by it. Who Killed Cock Robin? is an anthology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739094402Author Dan CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571537808Author Alexander L'EstrangePage Count 8Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 20g

This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose Acres Folk Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he dove deeply into old-time music. In the late 1980s,...

Jean Ritchie, the youngest of fourteen children born and raised in Viper, Kentucky, is considered one of the greatest balladeers in this century. Her performances have influenced the resurgence of interest in folk music and given audiences a glimpse into...

Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other...

Who are "the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad,...

Everything Americana! Lessons in American Music, Volume Two, the second book in the Lessons in American Music series, is an exciting new general music resource for those teaching in grades 4-7. Discover new ways to engage your students in learning about...

As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop. The resulting album, Projekt Jon (1997), provided a new model for song—Western and cosmopolitan,...