Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional

All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory...

Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Man's Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)', have been recorded numerous times in a...

Percussionist and researcher Jeff Strong embarks on a three-decade journey into the power of musical rhythm. Different Drummer chronicles his path as he navigates ancient drumming practices, conducts clinical research, and develops the music that establishes him as a pioneer in the world of...

This book is a one-stop reference resource for the vast variety of musical expressions of the First Peoples' cultures of North America, both past and present. Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America documents the surprisingly varied musical practices among North America's First...

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant...

A wonderful collection of 20 popular, beautiful and fun-to-play songs for beginning to intermediate guitar students. The melody, an easy strumming pattern, chord diagrams and complete lyrics are provided with each song, so students can choose to either play the melody or strum to...

On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. The songs heard at these venues are the living music of an ethnic community created by immigrants who started arriving in Central...

Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech and Chong). The record was a smash, reaching...

One of the most sought after aspects of Irish vernacular culture is traditional song. Access to earlier recordings is a way to ensure the best understanding and appreciation of earlier singers, styles and repertoires. Within Ireland this is often primarily associated with the Irish...

EIGHT MILES HIGH FOLK ROCK'S FLIGHT FROM HAIGHT ASHBURY TO WOODSTOCKAuthor: Richie UnterbergerISBN-10: 0879307439ISBN-13: 9780879307431Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2003Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.10w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1088

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the...

Enjoy and relive the romance of the Great American West with this collection of 75 oldtime western and cowboy songs arranged especially for the 20 and 30-button Anglo concertina. Included are full lyrics, music, and special Anglo concertina tablature. You will find many of...

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional 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, and Cajun--and offers...

Max Baca is one of the foremost artists of Tex-Mex music, the infectious dance music sweeping through the Texas-Mexico borderlands since the 1940s. His Grammy-winning group, Los Texmaniacs, and his extensive work with the accordionist Flaco Jim駭ez established the Albuquerque-born and San Antonio-based bajo...

"I know of nobody better than Eddie Stack to write this book." Martin Hayes Doolin is a unique book about the place, its people and culture. Beautifully written, this collection of essays and conversations features local tradition-bearers who were renowned for their music, songs,...

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional 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, and Cajun--and offers...

Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the...

As Bing Crosby once put it, Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business'. In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and...

Hoodening is an ancient calendar custom unique to East Kent, involving a wooden horse's head on a pole, carried by a man concealed by a sack. The earliest reliable record is from 1735, but other than Percy Maylam's seminal work "The Hooden Horse", published...

Popular Jam Tunes You Can Play for Hammered Dulcimer. National Hammered Dulcimer Champion, Mark Wade presents common jam tunes in a unique way that shows beginners how to play the essence of the tunes simply and the intermediate/advanced players the ornamented versions. Each Easy...

Enjoy and relive the romance of the Great American West with this collection of 75 mostly traditional western and cowboy songs. Included are full lyrics, music notation, and chord symbols playable on all instruments. Every song also has guitar chords symbols so you can...

This book features 36 songs . Each song is arranged in two or six keys. Much joy in the discovery of clawhammer ukulele. The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/preview-ukulele.pdf Songs: A Sailor Went to Sea,...

Audio Files located on Soundcloud Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North...

Easy Sheet Music For Euphonium With Euphonium & Piano Duets - Book 2Including Euphonium/Piano DuetsThe Euphonium parts in this book are written in treble clef, there is also a bass clef version of this book for players who prefer to read bass clef, you...

Easy Sheet Music For Euphonium With Euphonium & Piano Duets - Book 1Including Euphonium/Piano DuetsThe Euphonium parts in this book are written in treble clef, there is also a bass clef version of this book for players who prefer to read bass clef, you...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina,...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina,...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina,...

While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The Best of Enya: Anywhere Is * Book of Days * Caribbean Blue * China Roses * Ebudae * Marble Halls * On My Way Home * Only If... * Orinoco Flow * Paint the Sky With Stars * Shepherd Moons...

One of the most famous moments of the Sixties - and one which continues to this day to be grossly misconstrued, mistold, and loaded with undeserved meaning - is the night in July of 1965 when Bob Dylan played an electric set (or at...

One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry's first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America's most beloved entertainers. Michael...

Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more - this is the story of A. L. (Bert) Lloyd's extraordinary life. A. L. Lloyd played a key part in the folk music revival of...

Campfire Chants is a 50-page full-color booklet featuring interviews with chant authors Starhawk, Suzanne Sterling, T. Thorn Coyle, and more, plus lyrics and lore for each song on our album of the same title. Album can be heard on all streaming sources including youtube....

Author: Patricia AverillISBN-10: 149317911XISBN-13: 9781493179114Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2014Pages: 714Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 116

Author: Patricia AverillISBN-10: 1493179128ISBN-13: 9781493179121Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2014Pages: 714Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.57dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 116

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 major art forms, rock and...

Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at...

Chicago Folk includes over 150 of Raeburn Flerlages's photographs of folk musicians during the 1960s. No other book has presented a portrait of such a vibrant urban folk milieu, featuring popular performers such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, and so...

More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace. Not high...

Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads "asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and...

This comprehensive book contains over 100 Celtic tunes arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. This edition is derived from a collection of nearly 300 arrangements Glenn Weiser has created over the last twenty years.Author: Glenn WeiserISBN-10: 0786634111ISBN-13: 9780786634118Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/26/1999Pages: 192Format:...

Dick Weissman is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Which Side Are You On? An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America.Author: Dick WeissmanISBN-10: 1438490860ISBN-13: 9781438490861Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages:...

There are so many strange and wonderful connections and coincidences; shared passions and associations that tie these two cultural icons - Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas together. This provides a rich tapestry - from the ancient Welsh folk tales of the Mabinogion to the...

Donald Brown follows shifting versions of Dylan, from songs of social involvement to more personal songs, exploring his influential albums, tours, and personas. In an engaging adventure, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan's entire career in the context of its times to assess...

Celtic Flatpicking in Open D Guitar TuningTuning your guitar to DADF#AD or "Open D" compliments Celtic music brilliantly. The open tuning allows the strings to vibrate easily, creating drones and overlapped notes that sound reminiscent of a harp or bagpipe.The 30+ tunes represent a...

Charlie & His Banjo: The Story of Charlie Poole is a children's book about musical legend Charlie Poole and his band, the North Carolina Ramblers. Written by Louise Wright Price. Illustrated by Benjamin Reid Phillips. Cover and book design by Sharon Tongbua.Author: Louise Wright...

An updated edition of the most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career. Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative...

Wayne's newest clawhammer banjo book has something for everyone: beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Includes tabs and lyrics to 44 old-time banjo tunes, plus tips on learning tunes on the fly, how to jam, the art of faking it, and improvising. Comes with instructional...

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...