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  • Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music by Remson, Michael K.
    Michael K. Remson

    Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music

    The author sheds some much-needed light on one of the most interesting anomalies in American musical history_Septimus Winner a.k.a. Alice Hawthorne.Author: Michael K. RemsonISBN-10: 0810845407ISBN-13: 9780810845404Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
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  • Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie Volume 10 by Reineke, Hank
    Hank Reineke

    Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie Volume 10

    One of America's most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his best-selling album Alice's Restaurant and his iconic appearance at Woodstock. Yet Guthrie's career as a musician, humorist, and storyteller...
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  • Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States by Roy, William G.
    William G. Roy

    Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States

    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,...
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  • Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States by Roy, William G.
    William G. Roy

    Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States

    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,...
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  • Folk Music: The Basics: The Basics by Cohen, Ronald
    Ronald Cohen

    Folk Music: The Basics

    Folk Music: The Basics 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: traditional, local performers; professional...
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  • Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia by Jankowsky, Richard C.
    Richard C. Jankowsky

    Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia

    In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African...
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  • Sheram: Songs with music notation in Armenian and transliterated English lyrics by Talyan, Girgor (Sheram)
    Girgor (Sheram) Talyan

    Sheram: Songs with music notation in Armenian and transliterated English lyrics

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of one of Armenia's most important ashoughs' works in transliterated English for the first time in history. Ashough Sheram is one of the most prominent Armenian traditional ashoughs (bard singers). Having been born in...
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  • The Greatest Waltzes by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Greatest Waltzes

    (E-Z Play Today). The revised second edition of this popular volume features 38 beloved melodies, including: Are You Lonesome Tonight? * The Blue Skirt Waltz * Cuckoo Waltz * Do I Hear a Waltz? * Edelweiss * Falling in Love with Love * It's...
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  • Shāh Esmā'il and His Three Wives: A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan by Youssefzadeh, Ameneh
    Ameneh Youssefzadeh

    Shāh Esmā'il and His Three Wives: A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan

    This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards...
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  • Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook by Callahan, Mat
    Mat Callahan

    Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook

    Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an insight: in order to better our lot,...
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  • The Story of the Dulcimer by Smith, Ralph Lee
    Ralph Lee Smith

    The Story of the Dulcimer

    Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. The instrument was no longer confined to back porches and local music halls when Jean Ritchie so melodically thrust herself and her dulcimer into the national limelight during the folk revival...
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  • Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda by Kafumbe, Damascus
    Damascus Kafumbe

    Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda

    Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble uses musical performance and storytelling to manage, structure, model, and legitimize power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda. Tuning the Kingdom draws on oral and written accounts, archival research, and musical analysis to examine how...
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  • Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Cray, Ed
    Ed Cray

    Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

    A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness...
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  • My Guitar Is a Camera by Casey, Watt M.
    Watt M. Casey

    My Guitar Is a Camera

    The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore into his unique arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the stage of San Antonio's Hemisphere Arena during...
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  • Sheet Music Solos For Euphonium Book 2 Bass Clef Edition: 20 Elementary/Intermediate Euphonium Sheet Music Pieces by Shaw, Michael
    Michael Shaw

    Sheet Music Solos For Euphonium Book 2 Bass Clef Edition: 20 Elementary/Intermediate Euphonium Sheet Music Pieces

    Sheet Music Solos For Euphonium Book 2The Euphonium parts in this book are written in bass clef, there is also a treble clef version of this book for players who prefer to read treble clef, you can find this on my author page.Skill level...
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  • The Heroic in Music by Kutschke, Beate
    Beate Kutschke

    The Heroic in Music

    Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this volume reconstructs the various musical strategies that composers of medieval chant, Renaissance madrigals, and Baroque operas, cantatas or oratorios...
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  • The Anglo Concertina Music of John Watcham by Coover, Gary
    Gary Coover

    The Anglo Concertina Music of John Watcham

    JOHN WATCHAM is one of the most influential players of the Anglo concertina - the lead musician for Chingford Morris, Albion Morris, Brighton Morris and Taylor's traditional English Morris dance teams. He has also performed with folkrock pioneer Ashley Hutchings and played on the...
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  • Songs & poetry of the Oglesby's Collection: Book 1: Love & Friendship by Bogie, D.
    D. Bogie

    Songs & poetry of the Oglesby's Collection: Book 1: Love & Friendship

    Oglesby was a songwriter and work alongside various musician, in the 1960's thought the 1990's. He used to tell me stories about the 1960s and 1970s when I use to visit him. He passed away recently, and left a vault of original written songs...
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  • Hal Leonard Bass Ukulele Method - Book with Online Audio for Demos and Play-Along by Sokolow, Fred
    Fred Sokolow

    Hal Leonard Bass Ukulele Method - Book with Online Audio for Demos and Play-Along

    (Ukulele). The Hal Leonard Bass Ukulele Method is your complete guide to learning bass ukulele. This book uses bass lines from popular songs to teach you how to play all kinds of rhythm grooves, in any key. Over 50 audio tracks are included for...
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  • Texas Zydeco by Wood, Roger
    Roger Wood

    Texas Zydeco

    To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west,...
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  • Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present by Marshall, Howard Wight
    Howard Wight Marshall

    Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present

    Together with Play Me Something Quick and Devilish (2013) and Fiddler's Dream (2017), this third volume on Missouri fiddling represents a lifelong fascination with the world of music. As in the previous two volumes, Howard Marshall seeks out the people, stories, and communities that...
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  • The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador by Kelly, Ursula A.
    Ursula A. Kelly

    The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador

    The first collection of the music and writings of the woodworkers of Newfoundland and Labrador creates a portrait of a culture.Author: Ursula A. Kelly, Meghan C. ForsythISBN-10: 1894725409ISBN-13: 9781894725408Publisher: ISER BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2018Pages: 492Format: Paperback
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  • Irish Session Tunes - The Red Book: 100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs [With CD (Audio)] by Cranitch, Matt
    Matt Cranitch

    Irish Session Tunes - The Red Book: 100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs [With CD (Audio)]

    (Misc). This series contains over 100 Irish dance tunes and airs in each volume. The collections contain a varied selection of widely played and lesser-known tunes, divided into different dance rhythms, and then sorted into sets of similar tunes to be played at Irish...
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  • Women and Music in Ireland by Watson, Laura
    Laura Watson

    Women and Music in Ireland

    Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland. In a story which spans several centuries, the book highlights representative composers and performers in classical music, Irish traditional music, and contemporary art music...
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  • Scatterling of Africa by Clegg, Johnny
    Johnny Clegg

    Scatterling of Africa

    There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few seconds, they float in their own space and time with their own hidden prospects. For...
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  • Who's That Knocking on My Door?: Barnacle Bill the Sailor and His Mates in Song and Story by Bronner, Simon J.
    Simon J. Bronner

    "Who's That Knocking On My Door?": Barnacle Bill the Sailor and his Mates in Song and Story

    The bawdy exploits of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" are normally relegated to late-night college parties, sports celebrations, and military clubs, but the crusty seaman has antecedents in ballads reaching back to the sixteenth century. This study explores those roots, the modern variants of the...
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  • Jerome: Just One More Song! Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer by Bennett, Margaret
    Margaret Bennett

    Jerome: Just One More Song! Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer

    Jerome Just one more Song A Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer. This timeless Songs collection, recorded in Codroy Valley, Newfoundland, 1980 by folklorists Kenneth S. Goldstein and Margaret Bennett, is a tribute to singer Jerome Downey. This...
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  • Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s by Bokelman, Marina
    Marina Bokelman

    Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s

    At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings...
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  • Naomi Omie Wise: Her Life, Death and Legend by Pugh, Hal E.
    Hal E. Pugh

    Naomi Omie Wise: Her Life, Death and Legend

    Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North Carolina's Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes, romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi's biography over...
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  • Singing Like Larks: A Celebration of Birds in Folk Songs by Millham, Andrew
    Andrew Millham

    Singing Like Larks: A Celebration of Birds in Folk Songs

    Birds are beloved for their song and have featured in our own music for centuries. Singing Like Larks opens a rare window onto birdlife, folklore, traditional verse, and song writing, especially in the British Isles.In this charming volume, folklore, verse, and nature writing combine...
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  • Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music by Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa
    Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum

    Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music

    The first full-length study of the musical pasts of Asafo warrior associations based on the author's "ways of walking" with local scholars along the Ghanaian littoral. What is Asafo ndwom (music)? How and when is it performed? What is the state of this warrrior...
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  • The Hymns of Wales \ Emynau Cymru: 50 Favourites \ 50 O'r Goreuon by Gwilym, Ifor Ap
    Ifor Ap Gwilym

    The Hymns of Wales \ Emynau Cymru: 50 Favourites \ 50 O'r Goreuon

    A selection of fifty favourite Welsh hymns, with historical notes and sol-fa arrangements (bilingual).Author: Ifor Ap GwilymISBN-10: 0862433622ISBN-13: 9780862433628Publisher: Y LolfaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1995Pages: 208Format: Paperback
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  • Mabsant: A Collection of Popular Welsh Folk Songs by George, Siwsann
    Siwsann George

    Mabsant: A Collection of Popular Welsh Folk Songs

    54 popular Welsh folk songs, including English translations and historical notes.Author: Siwsann GeorgeISBN-10: 0862432480ISBN-13: 9780862432485Publisher: Y LolfaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1991Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.27h x 6.46w x 0.29d
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  • Fingerpicking Paul Simon by Simon, Paul
    Paul Simon

    Fingerpicking Paul Simon

    (Music Sales America). Includes 17 of Paul Simon's greatest hits specially arranged for fingerstyle guitarists at all levels. Titles include: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover * Mrs Robinson * Graceland * and many other masterpieces.Author: Paul SimonISBN-10: 0825633044ISBN-13: 9780825633041Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages:...
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  • The Ballad as Song by Bronson, Bertrand H.
    Bertrand H. Bronson

    The Ballad as Song

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • The Ballad as Song by Bronson, Bertrand H.
    Bertrand H. Bronson

    The Ballad as Song

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 by Leary, James
    James Leary

    Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946

    Challenging and considerably broadening popular and scholarly definitions of American folk music, Folksongs of Another America recovers the diverse, multilingual traditions of immigrant, Native American, rural, and working-class performers in America's Upper Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s. The book extensively documents 187 tunes...
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  • Gypsy and Folk Tunes from Eastern Europe: Arranged for Low G Ukulele by Brown, Dave
    Dave Brown

    Gypsy and Folk Tunes from Eastern Europe: Arranged for Low G Ukulele

    25 Gypsy and Folk tunes from Eastern Europe.Arranged for low G ukulele.An introduction to this enjoyable style of music.Tunes are in music notation and ukulele tablature.Included are tunes from: Romania, Czechia, Ukraine, Serbia and Croatia, but mostly from Russia and Hungary.No music theory or...
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  • The Savvy Strummer Mandolin Tablature Songbook: 46 Easy-to-Play Favorites Arranged with Tab, Lyrics and Chords for Mandolin-family GDAE Instruments by Baker, Ben Gitty
    Ben Gitty Baker

    The Savvy Strummer Mandolin Tablature Songbook: 46 Easy-to-Play Favorites Arranged with Tab, Lyrics and Chords for Mandolin-family GDAE Instruments

    *** FAMILIAR, EASY TO PLAY SONGS *** DESIGNED FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS ALIKE *** PLAY THESE SONGS ON ANY MANDOLIN-FAMILY INSTRUMENT tuned GDAE*** Here is the latest tablature songbook from master songsmith Ben "Gitty" Baker, containing 284 pages and including new arrangements of...
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  • Spanish Ukulele by Brown, Dave
    Dave Brown

    Spanish Ukulele

    15 Spanish ukulele solos with Low G tuning.All tunes are in music notation and ukulele tabs.Tunes included are; Cajita De Musica Campesina Santandereana Cancion O Tocata El Cuando El Humahuaquerno El Jaleo Historia De Un Amor IV Porro Lagrima Negras La Media Ca Malague...
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  • Shakira by Shakira
    Shakira

    Shakira

    (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This 2014 album marks the first English language album by Latin pop superstar Shakira since 2009's She Wolf . Our matching songbook includes all 12 tracks arranged by piano, voice and guitar: Broken Record * Can't Remember to Forget You *...
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  • Four Strong Winds: Ian & Sylvia by Einarson, John
    John Einarson

    Four Strong Winds: Ian & Sylvia

    Their classic "Four Strong Winds" is widely considered to be one of the greatest songs of all time. Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell count among their admirers. Their music, including hits like "You Were On My Mind" and...
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  • Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Bateson, Catherine V.
    Catherine V. Bateson

    Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood

    Irish-born and Irish-descended soldiers and sailors were involved in every major engagement of the American Civil War. Throughout the conflict, they shared their wartime experiences through songs and song lyrics, leaving behind a vast trove of ballads in songbooks, letters, newspaper publications, wartime diaries,...
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  • modern chord progressions for DADGAD Guitar by Barnes, Philippe
    Philippe Barnes

    modern chord progressions for DADGAD Guitar

    DADGAD Guitar Progressions for backing traditional music.Guitarist for CrossHarbour, The Wilderness Yet, The Dave Munnelly Band and Calum Stewart. Strumming patterns and chords for use with and without a capo. All the main keys covered. Tablature and notation."In this book Philippe Barnes has cleared...
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  • The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery by
    WR Book House

    The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery

    The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen's staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art. The death of Leonard Cohen received media attention across the globe, and this international star remains...
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  • I Wouldn't Count On It: Confessions of an Unlikely Folksinger by May, Tom
    Tom May

    I Wouldn't Count On It: Confessions of an Unlikely Folksinger

    Tom Mayhas been a folksinger/guitarist/songwriter/performer for nearly fifty years. He has recorded fourteen albums of original material, and produced various CDs for other artists. His touring has taken him to every state in the US--as well as to most Canadian provinces and to Europe....
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  • Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs by Hight, Jewly
    Jewly Hight

    Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs

    In this day of digital delivery, more and more popular music arrives to its listeners in downloadable bits, giving away very little about where the songs come from or who is behind them. At the same time contemporary popular culture, with its ancestry-excavating Web...
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  • Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of the First Great American Songwriters: (american Poets Project #30) by Foster, Steven
    Steven Foster

    Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of the First Great American Songwriters: (American Poets Project #30)

    Stephen Foster is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including "Oh Susanna," "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River..."), and "My Old Kentucky Home," and his parlor ballads, such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown...
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  • The Little Book of Irish Songs by Ducke, Stephen
    Stephen Ducke

    The Little Book of Irish Songs

    The second book in the Tunebook Series. An exciting collection of 23 traditional Irish songs written clearly in simple arrangements with guitar chords. The collection features typical Irish folk songs and ballads as heard in Ireland and throughout the world. It is designed for...
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  • The Little Book of Irish Tunes by Ducke, Stephen
    Stephen Ducke

    The Little Book of Irish Tunes

    The first book in the Tunebook Series. An exciting collection of 32 traditional Irish tunes written clearly in simple arrangements with guitar chords. The collection features typical Irish session tunes such as jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, marches and more. It is designed for...
    $5.99
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    $5.99

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