Folk Traditional category: 475 books
by Woody Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1983
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.
Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.
The...
by Clinton Heylin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Clinton Heylin's biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy's closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her diaries and unreleased work, to produce a moving portrait of a complex, driven, but fatally flawed genius, who remains the finest female singer-songwriter...
I'll Be Here in the Morning
The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The writer of such influential songs as “Pancho and Lefty,” “To Live’s to Fly,” “If I Needed You,” and “For the Sake of the Song,” Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas musicians that belies his relatively brief, deeply troubled life. Indeed,...
Jake Bugg
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Despite coming from a city of one-hit wonders, singer Jake Bugg has managed to jump from the bottom to the top, and continues gaining in popularity
In a world of boy bands and manufactured pop, Jake Bugg’s simply-strummed tales of life on the council estate where he grew up have connected...
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In the winter of 2006, Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver picked up a guitar, a laptop and some basic recording equipment and retreated to a remote cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to lick his wounds. The story of how he recorded alt-folk classic For Emma, Forever Ago has become the stuff of musical myth.
He...
Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation
A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock'n'roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance;...
Worlds of Sound
The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A man, a microphone, and a dream
When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created Folkways Records to achieve his goal, not just a record label but a statement that all sounds...
"Venceremos"
Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile’s presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power as folk singers emerged at the forefront proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. “Venceremos” charts the development...
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie,...
by Anthony Reynolds, Marion Ahl
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Lebendig wie ein Film, gedreht an den verschiedensten Schauplätzen auf mehreren Kontinenten, schildert dieses Buch das Leben und das Werk eines der größten Singer/ Songwriter unserer Zeit. Von den ersten Anfängen als mittelloser Dichter in seiner kanadischen Heimatstadt Montreal begleitet es Leonard...
by Alec Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger.
Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers...