Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional

On a snowy winter morning in 1961, Robert Zimmerman left Minnesota for New York City with a suitcase, guitar, harmonica and a few bucks in his pocket. Wasting no time upon arrival, he performed at the Cafe Wha? in his first day in the...

A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 "Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you'd hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It's both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing...

A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting Bob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of...

An intimate look at the early years of one of the world's most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters. In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then...

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...

Author: June SawyersISBN-10: 1540250865ISBN-13: 9781540250865Publisher: History PRLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2022Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

"A historical compilation to savor" (Los Angeles Times) that is "invaluable...irresistible" (The New York Times)--the ultimate collection of interviews and encounters with Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, spanning his entire career from 1962 to today. Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of...

(Music Sales America). Matching folio to Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits albums volumes 1, 2 and 3, in one complete edition. 45 songs including the classic hits: Blowin' in the Wind * Mr. Tambourine Man * The Mighty Quinn * and more.Author: Bob DylanISBN-10: 0825615976ISBN-13:...

In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union--the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across...

Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out...

"A modern parable." --from the foreword by Grace Slick"Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric." - Acoustic Guitar "Jorma Kaukonen lit a fuse and transformed his electric...

As a young man from Meridian, Mississippi, Steve Forbert managed to carve out a niche in New York City's vibrant club scene, playing now-iconic venues like Gerde's Folk City and CBGB's during a time when rootsy rock was fading out and the Ramones, Talking...

Negro spirituals were profoundly influenced both by the African origins of the singers and by the nature of slavery itself. Music permeated every part of African culture from birth to death, and continued to have a powerful, healing role among the people brought to...

How do we know what we know about chanties? Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces the history of writing about chanties -- exploring the layers of discourse that have developed as authors and collectors have relied on, borrowed from, and contradicted those...

A collection of nine classic Breton folk-songs for voice and piano. Originally published in 1909 and composed by Liza Lehmann. Songs include: Sir Fanch and the Fairy, I dreamt my love was singing, The Ruby Necklace, The Nightingale, No candle was there and no...

Tuning your guitar to DADF#AD or "Open D" tuning compliments Celtic guitar music perfectly. It is easy to create drones and overlap notes that sound reminiscent of a harp or bagpipe. The 30+ tunes represent a good selection of well known Celtic session tunes...

This 400-page songbook contains all of the best and most beloved traditional songs from Ireland, Scotland and beyond, ready to be sung and strummed at your favorite session Contains Love Songs, Rebel Songs, Drinking Songs, Session Tunes, Folk Ballads, Sea Shanties and more. The...

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives,...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Gather around the piano for an old-fashioned sing-along or download the online sing-along backing tracks to your mobile device for caroling in the neighborhood. All that's missing are your vocals The music in this book includes the lyrics, vocal lines, piano accompaniments,...

Celtic music means many things to many people. To some it recalls the Irish rebel songs of the Clancy Brothers, to others the ensemble playing of the Chieftains or Enya's ethereal vocals. Yet Celtic music is much more than reels, jigs, and sentimental ballads....

Compellingly narrated and thoroughly researched, this text is the definitive biography of a true giant of American music: Bill Monroe.Author: Richard D. SmithISBN-10: 0316803812ISBN-13: 9780316803816Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 6.20h x 9.10w x 1.30dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2000 pg....

Learn Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar - The Right Way Are you struggling to learn acoustic fingerstyle guitar? Do you want a complete method that breaks down every essential technique on acoustic guitar? Do you want to learn the guitar fingerpicking patterns that underpin thousands of...

How Louisiana transplants and new players have generated a thriving music and dance scene far from the South Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and...

In the Carolinas, bluegrass is more than music--it's a way of life. The origins of the genre date back to the earliest frontier settlements, and banjo music appeared at dances in Greenville, South Carolina, as early as 1780. The genre was essential to socialization...

This book brings awareness to the romantic side of Bob Dylan, and the love songs that have been overshadowed by his formidable songs of protest and social commentary. Dylan applies the same intellectual and emotional honesty to songs of the heart as to the...

In the Carolinas, bluegrass is more than music--it's a way of life. The origins of the genre date back to the earliest frontier settlements, and banjo music appeared at dances in Greenville, South Carolina, as early as 1780. The genre was essential to socialization...

This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more. Performers profiled range from the rock-influenced group Clannad, to Welsh...

This volume documents Frederic Ramsey Jr.'s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition. In these photographs, songs, interviews, and narratives, Ramsey portrays farmers, railroad workers, housewives, children, church...

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production....

New from the Philharmonic series, this collection is an absolutely perfect way to introduce Celtic fiddling to your youngest string players! Eleven tunes from the Celtic fiddling tradition are presented first in a simplified, very easy Basic" version of the tune printed with note...

Translated by E. Gulbekian, edited with introduction by N.V. Nersessian. Komitas Vardapet was the giant of Armenian sacred and folk music. Eight of Komitas's principal musicological studies have been selected from his Collected Works published in Yerevan in 1941.Author: Komitas Vardapet Komitas, Vrej N....

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation Arhoolie Records eventually produced more than four hundred albums...

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 little serious research had gone into the tradition between Percy...

All Join Hands is the story of what happened when a ten-thousand-year-old musical tradition wasput into the hands of a seventeen-year-old Boston boy in 1947. While in high school, DudleyLaufman apprenticed with fiddlers and callers throughout New England. Eventually, he squiredthe old country dance...

A compilation of various songs translated to English from various languages, mainly Norwegian, but also some Swedish, French, Croatian and Serbian, plus, plus. Some translations to Norwegian are also included. Most of the songs are contemporary Christian or traditional. Links to sheet music or...

Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought...

American folk musicians Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, once musical partners, have had careers which are at once conservative and innovative, imbuing the best of folk traditions with their own powerful style. In The Unbroken Circle, Fred Metting challenges the musical labels that often...

Richard and JoAnne Reuss expertly capture the personality of this era and the fascinating chronology of events in American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957, a historical analysis of singers, writers, union members and organizers and their connection with left-wing politics and folk music...

With roots in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, the Piedmont, Memphis, and the prairies of Texas and the American West, the musical genre called Americana can prove difficult to define. Nevertheless, this burgeoning trend in American popular music continues to expand and develop,...

'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee 'Without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures' Billy Bragg In America Over the Water, celebrated English folksinger Shirley Collins offers an affecting...

A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. "Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate in tone, this book is a minotaur's labyrinth of information about one of the most remarkable groups...

A BALLAD is a poem or a song that tells a popular story and many traditional British ballads contain fascinating stories - tales of love and jealousy, murder and mystery, the supernatural and the historical. This anthology brings together nineteen original retellings in short...

New from the Philharmonic series, this collection is an absolutely perfect way to introduce Celtic fiddling to your youngest string players! Eleven tunes from the Celtic fiddling tradition are presented first in a simplified, very easy Basic" version of the tune printed with note...

Bags of American Folk is packed with folk song you will know and love, arranged by leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen especially for Late Beginner Level cellists. From Simple Gifts to Shenandoah, The Yellow Rose of Texas to On Top of Old Smokey, this...

The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. An Evolving Tradition is the story of the Child Ballads--the world's best-known...

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused...

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused...

Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection of drawings shows...

American Negro Folk Songs is a collection of traditional African American songs compiled and edited by Newman Ivey White. The book includes over 200 songs, arranged by categories such as work songs, spirituals, and ballads. Each song is presented with its lyrics, musical notation,...

Master Andy McKee's virtuoso Acoustic Guitar Techniques- Ready to level up your acoustic guitar playing? Andy McKee shot to fame when his tune Drifting went viral on YouTube. This jaw-dropping, groundbreaking performance has since seen a staggering 59 million views. He now sets the...