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  • Carolina Bluegrass: A High Lonesome History by Wilson-Giarratano Phd, Gail
    Gail Wilson-Giarratano Phd

    Carolina Bluegrass: A High Lonesome History

    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...
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  • Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion by Mathieson, Kenny
    Kenny Mathieson

    Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion

    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...
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  • Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song by Beaster-Jones, Jayson
    Jayson Beaster-Jones

    Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

    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....
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  • Armenian Sacred and Folk Music by Komitas, Komitas Vardapet
    Komitas Vardapet Komitas

    Armenian Sacred and Folk Music

    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....
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  • Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz by Selvin, Joel
    Joel Selvin

    Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz

    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...
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  • Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum by Frost, James Edward
    James Edward Frost

    Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum

    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...
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  • All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition by Curren, Thomas
    Thomas Curren

    All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition

    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...
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  • Anthology of Chalk and Cheese (translations) by Exelby, Richard Mure
    Richard Mure Exelby

    Anthology of Chalk and Cheese (translations)

    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...
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  • American Folk Music and Musicians Series: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity by Spencer, Scott B.
    Scott B. Spencer

    The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity

    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...
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  • American Folk Music and Musicians Series: Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal by Metting, Fred
    Fred Metting

    The Unbroken Circle: Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal

    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...
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  • American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957 by Reuss, Richard A.
    Richard A. Reuss

    American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957

    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...
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  • Americana Music: Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound by Zimmerman, Lee
    Lee Zimmerman

    Americana Music: Voices, Visionaries, and Pioneers of an Honest Sound

    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,...
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  • America Over the Water by Collins, Shirley
    Shirley Collins

    America Over the Water

    '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...
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  • Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium by Whittaker, Adrian
    Adrian Whittaker

    Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium

    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...
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  • Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold by Manwaring, Kevan
    Kevan Manwaring

    Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold

    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...
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  • An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music by Thompson, Dave
    Dave Thompson

    An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music

    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...
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  • Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector by Nelson, Sarah
    Sarah Nelson

    Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector

    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...
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  • Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector by Nelson, Sarah
    Sarah Nelson

    Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector

    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...
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  • Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings by Baez, Joan
    Joan Baez

    Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings

    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...
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  • American Negro Folk Songs by White, Newman Ivey
    Newman Ivey White

    American Negro Folk Songs

    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,...
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  • Andy McKee Musicarium Guitar Songbook: Discover Andy McKee's Techniques & Artistry in Five Acoustic Guitar Masterpieces by McKee, Andy
    Andy McKee

    Andy McKee Musicarium Guitar Songbook: Discover Andy McKee's Techniques & Artistry in Five Acoustic Guitar Masterpieces

    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...
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  • AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola, Second Edition, Book 2 by McCaskey, Caroline
    Caroline McCaskey

    AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola, Second Edition, Book 2

    This is Book 2 of AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola (Orchestra), Second Edition.The second edition of AltStrings' Fiddle Books 1 and 2 comes in two flavors: Original Key (for Violin only), and Orchestra Whichever series you choose, our books offer tunes and techniques that...
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  • Ballad of an American by Robinson, Earl
    Earl Robinson

    Ballad of an American

    Earl Robinson, composer of "Joe Hill," "The House I Live In," "Black and White," The Lonesome Train, and Ballad for Americans, is a major figure in twentieth-century music. He was also one of the most affable and charming, full of honesty and a warm...
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  • Bagpipe Tutorial Collection: Volume 3: The Bagpipes by McGregor, Andrew
    Andrew McGregor

    Bagpipe Tutorial Collection: Volume 3: The Bagpipes

    The Bagpipe Tutorial Collection from Harris Piping will take you from your first tentative steps on the Practice Chanter, all the way through to mastery of Ce l M r Volume 3 introduces you to: practical movements such as Tachums, more advanced GDEs and...
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  • Banjo: An Illustrated History by Carlin, Bob
    Bob Carlin

    Banjo: An Illustrated History

    The banjo is emblematic of American country music, and it is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime. The instrument has been adopted by many cultures and has been ingrained into many musical traditions, from Mento music in the...
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  • American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular by Work, John W.
    John W. Work

    American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular

    From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans -- at work, in church, and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs, and a variety of social and dance...
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  • American Folk Songs for Christmas by Seeger, Ruth Crawford
    Ruth Crawford Seeger

    American Folk Songs for Christmas

    Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old-time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to America and neatly trimmed fir trees bloomed with tinsel. These are the folk songs, the...
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  • Banjo Roots and Branches by Winans, Robert B.
    Robert B. Winans

    Banjo Roots and Branches

    The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in...
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  • Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash: The Last Leaf on the Tree by Smith, Malcolm L.
    Malcolm L. Smith

    Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash: The Last Leaf on the Tree

    World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash "a real folk hero." A virtuoso fiddler from the Blue Ridge, Hash built more than 300 fiddles in his lifetime, recorded numerous times with a variety of bands and inspired countless instrument makers and...
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  • American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School: A Book for Children, Parents, and Teachers by Seeger, Ruth
    Ruth Seeger

    American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School: A Book for Children, Parents, and Teachers

    (Music Sales America). A fully-illustrated collection of over 90 favorite folksongs for children. Perfect for children, parents, and teachers.Author: Ruth SeegerISBN-10: 0825603463ISBN-13: 9780825603464Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2002Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 11.84h x 8.92w x 0.47d
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  • Ballads and Songs of Indiana by Brewster, Paul G.
    Paul G. Brewster

    Ballads And Songs Of Indiana

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Paul G. BrewsterISBN-10: 1406753769ISBN-13: 9781406753769Publisher:...
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  • AltStrings Fiddle Method for Cello, Second Edition, Book 1 by McCaskey, Caroline
    Caroline McCaskey

    AltStrings Fiddle Method for Cello, Second Edition, Book 1

    This is Book 1 of AltStrings Fiddle Method for Cello (Orchestra), Second Edition.The second edition of AltStrings' Fiddle Books 1 and 2 comes in two flavors: Original Key (for Violin only), and Orchestra Whichever series you choose, our books offer tunes and techniques that...
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  • American Antebellum Fiddling by Goertzen, Chris
    Chris Goertzen

    American Antebellum Fiddling

    This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day...
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  • Banjo Tenor Songbook by Capafons, Joan
    Joan Capafons

    Banjo Tenor Songbook

    50 banjo tenor music sheets with traditional notation and TAB's. It has chord diagrams.This banjo tenor songbook of traditional English popular songs has been created by Joan Capafons, and offers a compilation of fifty songs that are part of the musical tradition of the...
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  • AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola, Second Edition, Book 1 by McCaskey, Caroline
    Caroline McCaskey

    AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola, Second Edition, Book 1

    This is Book 1 of AltStrings Fiddle Method for Viola (Orchestra), Second Edition.The second edition of AltStrings' Fiddle Books 1 and 2 comes in two flavors: Original Key (for Violin only), and Orchestra Whichever series you choose, our books offer tunes and techniques that...
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  • All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song by Collins, Shirley
    Shirley Collins

    All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song

    A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians.A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, All in the Downs, Collins tells...
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  • Appalachian Mountain Songs and Other American Folksongs by Various
    Various

    Appalachian Mountain Songs and Other American Folksongs

    This vintage book contains a collection of Appalachian songs complete with lyrics and musical scores. Appalachian music refers to music from the Appalachia region of the Eastern United States. Deriving from various European and African influences, it was a key influence on early Old-time...
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  • Bass songbook for G/C melodeon: only for left hand by Sarek, Ondrej
    Ondrej Sarek

    Bass songbook for G/C melodeon: only for left hand

    There are thirty known and simple tunes in the book written only for a left hand. They are such melodious etudes for left hand independence. The book can be used for playing songs when you play one verse only by the left hand. But...
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  • Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions, Second Edition by Smith, Ralph Lee
    Ralph Lee Smith

    Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

    This book describes the recovery of the Appalachian dulcimer's lost history, tracing the dulcimer's roots in a German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America, and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West...
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  • Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions by Smith, Ralph Lee
    Ralph Lee Smith

    Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

    A first-hand report on an effort to enlarge our knowledge of the Appalachian dulcimer's history by searching the hills and 'hollers' of Appalachia, looking at old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks.Author: Ralph Lee SmithISBN-10: 0810841355ISBN-13: 9780810841352Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2001Pages:...
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  • American Negro Folk Songs by White, Newman Ivey
    Newman Ivey White

    American Negro Folk Songs

    Author: Newman Ivey WhiteISBN-10: 1258126729ISBN-13: 9781258126728Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.03d
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  • 3 Chord Guitar Songbook - 50 Timeless Children Songs with Tabs and Chords by Lovelymelodies
    Lovelymelodies

    3 Chord Guitar Songbook - 50 Timeless Children Songs with Tabs and Chords

    collection of 50 most popular timeless children's songs, suitable for parents and children, presented with a melody in standard notation and tablature, chord diagrams, and lyrics, including free, online audio tracks for all 50 songs, with solo and basic chord (C, G7, F) changes,...
    $9.75
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  • 12 Popular Old Rounds of France with English Translations - Sheet Music for Voice and Piano by Ferrari, Gustave
    Gustave Ferrari

    12 Popular Old Rounds of France with English Translations - Sheet Music for Voice and Piano

    A collection of 12 classic French folk songs with English translation, composed by Gustave Ferrari. Originally published in 1907. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for...
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  • 140 Folk-Tunes: Rote Songs, Grades I, II And III For School And Home by Davison, Archibald T.
    Archibald T. Davison

    140 Folk-Tunes: Rote Songs, Grades I, II And III For School And Home

    ""140 Folk-Tunes: Rote Songs, Grades I, II And III For School And Home"" is a collection of traditional folk songs compiled by Archibald T. Davison. The book is designed for children in grades one to three and includes easy-to-learn songs that can be sung...
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  • A Russian Song Book by Rubin, Rose N.
    Rose N. Rubin

    A Russian Song Book

    Though a great deal has been written about Russian folk music, the lack of available sheet music in any popular form has inevitably kept most of it out of reach of the many who would like to perform it themselves. Similarly, Russian popular songs...
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  • A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music by Weissman, Dick
    Dick Weissman

    A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music

    Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of folk music in the United States and Canada. North American folk...
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  • 21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely by Estanove, Laurence
    Laurence Estanove

    21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely

    Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as "Bob Dylan," renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones. Then in 2016,...
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  • 140 Folksongs: With Piano Accompaniment, Rote Songs, Grades 1-3 (1921) by Davison, Archibald T.
    Archibald T. Davison

    140 Folksongs: With Piano Accompaniment, Rote Songs, Grades 1-3 (1921)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America by Greene, Victor
    Victor Greene

    A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America

    Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Italians, Slovaks, Jews, and Scandinavians, luminaries like Frankie Yankovic,...
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  • "The Best Antiwar Song Ever Written" by Lighter, Jonathan
    Jonathan Lighter

    "The Best Antiwar Song Ever Written"

    The well-known folk song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" is widely regarded as a traditional Irish anti-war song which was later rewritten as the pro-war "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Jonathan Lighter, Lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee and editor of the...
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