Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional

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...

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,...