Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional

With civil rights and anti-war anthems scoring as chart hits, folk was the music that gave birth to the 1960s. ABC-TVs HOOTENANY dared to present folksingers to a mass audience "every Saturday night" and launched a craze that swept the nation. From LPs and...

Sheet Music Solos For Euphonium Book 2The 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 can find this on my author page.Skill level...

In the autumn of 1961, an obscure recording by a little-known college folk group climbed to the top of the Billboard charts. Upon returning to campus for their senior year, the five Highwaymen found themselves with the number one song not only in the...

This in-depth exploration of the history and construction of Scottish bagpipe music is an essential resource for any student of traditional music. The book includes detailed transcriptions of classic piobaireachd tunes, as well as historical context and analysis of the form's evolution over time.This...

2023 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This music collections provides words and music to 230 classic African-American Folk songs. Here are the original spirituals, the mournful Blues, the rhythmic work songs,...

Following up on the phenomenal success of the groundbreaking "Join The Jam" series for mountain dulcimer, Stephen Seifert has now introduced a new book of arrangements. "Join The Jam, Ukulele Edition" is a superb introduction to classic "jam tunes", designed to introduce even the...

The book contains 56 tunes for standard slide ukulele tuning (g-c-e-a). Irish slide ukulele? You are right it is unusual connection, but when you examine ukulele, you will find, it is completely determined for Irish music. It has a similar range like a whistle...

Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That...

This is a vivid introduction, by two of the foremost scholars in the field, to one of the most fascinating and little-known song traditions in Europe, the Breton gwerz, or ballad. These narrative songs, collected in Western Brittany from the 19th century to the...

Thomas Moore's collection of Irish melodies and national airs is a treasure of Irish culture and music. This edition of his works includes hundreds of songs, with lyrics and musical notation, as well as Moore's own notes on the origins and significance of each...

Presented here is a rare collection of some of the best Gypsy folk songs popularamong the Romanies of Russia and Eastern Europe. All offered in the original Romany tribal dialect, as appropriate to each song, with easy-to-follow pronunciation guide specially formulated for the native...

TURN TURN TURN - THE '60S FOLKROCK REVOLUTIONAuthor: Richie UnterbergerISBN-10: 087930703XISBN-13: 9780879307035Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2002Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Choice 03/01/2003 pg. 1193

Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues-style vocal intonation-against the backdrop of South Africa's history. A performance practice that emerged in the early decades of the twentieth century among Zulu...

Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the "Liza Jane" family of songs, including the most popular variant "Li'l Liza Jane." Likely...

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music--its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential...

Before soundtracking the Summer of Love as The Mamas & The Papas, musicians John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty honed their talents in groups like The Smoothies, The Journeymen, The Halifax Three, The Big 3, and The Mugwumps. In Gettin' Kinda...

Thomas Moore's collection of Irish melodies and national airs is a treasure of Irish culture and music. This edition of his works includes hundreds of songs, with lyrics and musical notation, as well as Moore's own notes on the origins and significance of each...

Selected for contests and adjudications around the country, this incredible volume includes 11 favorite folk songs expertly crafted for solo voice and piano. Arranged by Alfred Music's finest writers, such as Philip Kern, Jay Althouse, Don Besig, Ruth Elaine Schram, and Carl Strommen. Titles:...

Selected for contests and adjudications around the country, this incredible volume includes 11 favorite folk songs expertly crafted for solo voice and piano. Arranged by Alfred Music's finest writers, such as Philip Kern, Jay Althouse, Don Besig, Ruth Elaine Schram, and Carl Strommen. Titles:...

This a memoir of William V. Muse who grew up in rural Mississippi and Louisiana as the seventh son of a Pentacostal minister. By winning academic scholarships, he was able to earn bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees and advance thru an academic career from...

This book is about twenty-one days, and sixty years. A motorcycle ride down the spine of Appalachia, with a little banjo and big myth for company, to play and sing at the graves of dead banjo heroes. About making a life about making work....

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sin饌d O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sin饌d O'Connor rose to massive fame in the late...

Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product...

This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living partof the American musical tradition. This...

*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.."What you are about to read is not a standard...

The politics & poetics of cultural representation in a multiethnic cityHow do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of The Cultural Work, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped...

In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for the first time, the story of Dyer-Bennet, often referred to as the "Twentieth-Century Minstrel." Dyer-Bennet's approach to singing sounded...

Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers:...

One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it...

Fourty-four familiar pieces (folk tunes and classical music) arranged for ukulele (low G). There are 42 solos and 2 duets. All music is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The level of expertise necessary to play the pieces varies widely, from easy to...

In 1908 a local rancher and surveyor by the name of N. Howard "Jack" Thorp walked into the cramped offices of the Estancia News in Estancia, New Mexico, and inquired of the printer about publishing a small book of "cowboy songs." For at least...

Never has there been a more urgent time to foster cultural humility, diversity, and dialogue and address systemically exclusionary practices in vocal music. This book will assist not only with programming music by composers from the African diaspora but also in creating brave spaces...

Originally published in 1994, this stunning collection of Irish music is re-issued here in a new, entirely re-set edition, containing an additional 29 tunes, and new photographs. Sliabh Luachra, in the heart of Munster, is home to a unique style of traditional Irish music....

The islands of Chiloé, in southern Chile, have developed a distinct culture over several centuries, blending indigenous traditions and Spanish settler heritage to create a vibrant pattern of folklore, music, dance, and related creative practices. This cultural heritage has become an important aspect of...

This easy Gypsy-style introduction takes you on a musical journey along theRomany Trail, assimilating the musical idioms of Eastern Europe and the Mideast.Here are the core nuggets of the flashy and exotic Gypsy style, distilled to their essence. Fun, easy Gypsy-style tunes; Authentic Gypsy...

A RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.'s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers' gatherings for generations, and has gone through numerous editions. As a result of...

Shaped by the processes of migration, diasporization and cosmopolitanization, musical performance conditions and contexts constantly change, while new musical forms emerge and evolve. The development of Turkish folk music is well-documented and provides rich material for study in the motherland and in the diaspora....

This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America's heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published,...

136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with their musical notation in this superb edition.In the introduction, the chief compiler of this music, William Francis Allen, expresses his admiration for the musical...

32 Solos and 2 Duets for Baritone Ukulele, presented in both standard notation and tablature. A satisfying variety of instrumental arrangements of traditional folk tunes and classical repertoire from well-loved composers. The folk tunes come from a variety of origins. The classical repertoire includes...

From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s, Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righteousness, these men and women were outspoken voices for their generation, each with a story...

Mark Eliot Nuckols shares a highly personal account of returning to the land of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the occasion of the centennial of Franz Ferdinand's assassination. Although this anniversary is fraught, Nuckols' return is one that is also filled with reunions, memories...

Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song is a collection of sea songs, sea shanties and ballads that reflects Salem's rich maritime history and its relationship to the sea. Salem, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the maritime history of America. Salem's early ventures in...

BOOK + 429-TRACK AUDIO DOWNLOAD (Audio download available on demand from author).Learn to play Irish traditional music on the whistle with this tutor book from Tradschool104 tunes (28 children's & folk songs + 76 traditional Irish tunes)This book gives a complete introduction to playing...

During the 1960s and 70s some ethnomusicologists formed relationships with music-makers and ritual specialists in an attempt to interpret how they understood their musical actions. Subsequently ethnomusicologists have studied the respects in which explicit and implicit theory is involved in communication of musical knowledge....

Theology and the Avett Brothers features contributions that offer a rich contemplation on how these brothers from North Carolina help listeners navigate the religious consciousness of today's world.Author: Alex SoslerISBN-10: 1978714165ISBN-13: 9781978714168Publisher: Fortress AcademicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2023Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Canta Conmigo! is a practical guide for music educators looking to teach music from Central America. Suitable for use in families, schools, or community centers, this resource contains a playful collection of 90 songs, singing games, chants, and games author Rachel Gibson learned from...

This book has been written for Oud students who have completed the material covered in the Mukhtar Method series up until the Oud Upper Beginner book. This book aims to introduce students to the practical concepts of transposition by playing musical pieces and maqamaat...

This book has been written for Oud students who are confident players and have successfully completed the material covered in the Mukhtar Method series up until the Oud Intermediate book. The objective of this book is to further progress students' playing techniques as well...

Author: Peter StampfelISBN-10: 1737524503ISBN-13: 9781737524502Publisher: Don Giovanni RecordsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2023Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.39d