Folk category: 608 books
The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs
Folk Music Illustrated by Jennie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Our love affair with folk songs runs as deep as the enduring power of music, nature, creativity, and the longings of the human heart. Artist Jennie Smith celebrates the tradition with her illustrated renderings of thirteen soulful songs, including time-honored Scottish ballads, classics by the likes...
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's...
"To Everything There is a Season"
Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler...
by Patricia Averill
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Description and analysis of a folk tradition that long has been a rite of passage for children and adolescents. In depth discussion of 19 songs, brief mention of 1,400 others. 65 historic photographs.
Our Singing Country
Folk Songs and Ballads
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
In the 1930s and 40s, a father-and-son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke...
Folk Visions and Voices
Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.
by Béla Bartók
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
A collection of 3 classic Hungarian folk songs originally published in 1908. Songs include: 1. The Peacock, 2. At the Jánoshida Fairground, 3. White Lily. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed,...
El Narcotraficante
Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.–Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond—the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido, a current form of the traditional border song known as the corrido, narcotraffickers are often portrayed as larger-than-life "social bandits"...
by Aldo Diiani
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Italian Folk Dances for Accordion focuses on ten of the most known and popular dance styles. These beginning-intermediate pieces feature the polka, tarantella, mazurka and many more dance styles which offers a nice addition to any players repertoire. These pieces are great for solo or recital material for any accordion player.
Richard Dyer-Bennet
The Last Minstrel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel." Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded almost foreign...
by Norman Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
A small format gift book which is a reproduction of the popular book ‘101 Scottish Songs’ published by Collins in 1962. Popularized as ‘the wee red songbook’ in Scottish folk circles, this publication was in print for 26 years. One of the most influential books of folk songs ever, compiled...
Four Strong Winds
Ian and Sylvia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
An acclaimed music historian brings us the long-awaited story of Ian & Sylvia - marking the first time that the legendary folk duo has endorsed a biography of their groundbreaking career.
Their classic "Four Strong Winds" is widely considered to be one of the great songs of all...
The Painted Screens of Baltimore
An Urban Folk Art Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished...
Seasons of Wool Appliqué Folk Art
Celebrate Americana with 12 Projects to Stitch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The author of best-selling Wool Applique Folk Art presents a treasure trove of 12 seasonal wool applique projects, with 3 for each season. Presented in a lovely antique color palette, these simple and elegant projects include a journal cover, pillow cover, wallhangings, storage boxes, table rug, and...