Folk Traditional category: 475 books
Music from the True Vine
Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
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 of white and black southerners, which he called...
Legacies of Ewan MacColl
The Last Interview
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant in the movement during the 1950s and much of the 1960s, his position has come under attack in more recent years from some scholars. While it would be arrogant...
Hear My Sad Story
The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Read an excerpt and listen to the songs featured in the book at http://folksonghistory.com/In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these...
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals...
Exploring American Folk Music
Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British,...
Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen
Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including...
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.
Inside Folk Volume 1
Notes from a Scottish musician's year
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Love folk music? Liza Mulholland invites you Inside Folk to share an insight into her experience as a contemporary Scottish musician. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in folk music, she reflects on elements of a typical year - performing, teaching, travelling, launching an album, juggling...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Traditional Songs for the 5-String Banjo features 22 classic old-time favourites, specially arranged for 5-string Banjo.
The distinctive sound of the 5-string Banjo is most usually associated with folk, country and bluegrass music. In this book you’ll find a superb collection of traditional...
by Julia Bishop, Steve Roud
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012**
'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we've received orders for to sail for old England
But we hope in a short while to see you again'
One of the great English popular art forms, the...
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the...
Russian Folk Songs
Musical Genres and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
"Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important...
by Ronald D. Lankford
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2005
Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice Of Protest is the definitive story of American folk music, focussing on how a minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a generation at the end of the Eisenhower years.
From Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" in 1958 to Bob Dylan's electric...
The Mariposa Folk Festival
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
A history of the Mariposa Folk Festival, from its humble roots in Orillia in 1961 to international acclaim and legendary status as a premier folk music gathering.
Mariposa began in the heyday of the early 60s “folk boom.” In its more than fifty-five years, it has seen many of the world’s...