Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional

Tom Mayhas been a folksinger/guitarist/songwriter/performer for nearly fifty years. He has recorded fourteen albums of original material, and produced various CDs for other artists. His touring has taken him to every state in the US--as well as to most Canadian provinces and to Europe....

In this day of digital delivery, more and more popular music arrives to its listeners in downloadable bits, giving away very little about where the songs come from or who is behind them. At the same time contemporary popular culture, with its ancestry-excavating Web...

Stephen Foster is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including "Oh Susanna," "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River..."), and "My Old Kentucky Home," and his parlor ballads, such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown...

The second book in the Tunebook Series. An exciting collection of 23 traditional Irish songs written clearly in simple arrangements with guitar chords. The collection features typical Irish folk songs and ballads as heard in Ireland and throughout the world. It is designed for...

The first book in the Tunebook Series. An exciting collection of 32 traditional Irish tunes written clearly in simple arrangements with guitar chords. The collection features typical Irish session tunes such as jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, marches and more. It is designed for...

Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and...

The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from book: https: //www.youtube.com/user/ondrasarek/videos This book features 44 songs. Have a nice moment with G/C diatonic accordion. Songs: A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea; All the Good Times Are Past Gone; Arie...

Youtube demonstrations: https: //www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcJRi8rTK0Erjk5OlVOO9G_IpaFkz1k4 The are in the book songs without text. http: //osos.sweb.cz/Preview-Anglo-concertina.pdf Robert Burns (1759-1796) belongs among most famous Scottish poets, who were touched by Romantic interest in their own culture. Therefore, he was interested in Scottish folk song. He collected and...

Adam Carroll promised a songbook to fans who supported his last album project in 2014. And in January of this year one of those guys, Ernie, reminded him politely that he was still waiting for his copy. Well, here you go Ernie. Better late...

Youtube demonstrations: https: //www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcJRi8rTK0Erjk5OlVOO9G_IpaFkz1k4 Robert Burns (1759-1796) belongs among most famous Scottish poets, who were touched by Romantic interest in their own culture. Therefore, he was interested in Scottish folk song. He collected and prepared it to be published. When he was unsatisfied with...

(Richmond Music Folios). 20 songs from this popular folk singer/songwriter are featured in ukulele arrangements so you can strum and sing along. Includes: Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) * Greenback Dollar * Howdi Do * I Ain't Got No Home * Little Seed...

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s. After his military service, Tommy found occasional work surveying and operating heavy equipment, and he...

This work by Hermann L hr was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. 'Romany Songs' is a collection of Romany songs complete with lyrics and musical notation.Author: Hermann LohrISBN-10: 1473303672ISBN-13: 9781473303676Publisher: Wellhausen PressLanguage:...

A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which...

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and...

On any Sunday afternoon a traveler through the Deep South might chance upon the rich, full sound of Sacred Harp singing. Aided with nothing but their own voices and the traditional shape-note songbook, Sacred Harp singers produce a sound that is unmistakable--clear and full-voiced....

Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and...

Southern Music/American Music is the first book to investigate the facets of American music from the South and the many popular forms that emerged from it. In this substantially revised and updated edition, Bill C. Malone and David Stricklin bring this classic work into...

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations...

Compiles all charts appearing in Cash Box magazine prior to 1989 which have not appeared in the earlier volumes of this chart series. Genres and media formats covered include twelve-inch disco/dance singles, midline albums, video games, compact discs (prior to their integration into the...

This new edition of 'Journeyman', Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. MacColl, a singer, songwriter,...

This book looks at the attitudes of Protestant performers to Traditional music in Northern Ireland. It reflects on broader Protestant community views of the music through their eyes and considers the impact of historical literature, political statements and other interventions which have affected and...

For a brief period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, folk music captured a mass audience in the United States, as college students and others swarmed to concerts by the likes of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. In this...

This vintage book contains a collection of classic Irish folk songs. Presented clearly and in simple language, these songs are perfect for introducing children to Irish folk songs and would be ideal for use in schools. Contents include: "Snowy Breasted Pearl", "Banks of the...

Scorebook with 3 classic old-time Dutch folk songs, originally published in 1929. 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 the enjoyment of musicians and music students...

The 20 intermediate - advanced arrangements in this book invite the player on a musical-historical journey from the French trouveres to Tielman Susato. These arrangements use a variety of techniques including harmonics, prEs de la table, left hand EtouffE, some quick lever changes and...

American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days. Folk music scholar Norm Cohen presents a thorough exploration of the many ways in which folk music genres and subgenres have arisen in different regions of...

Since the release of their breakout debut album in 2008, Fleet Foxes and their front man, singer-songwriter Robin Pecknold, have enjoyed international critical and commercial acclaim. Their music has helped reshape the American indie-folk sound through songs that are acoustically and melodically driven, steeped...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a structure that recalls a centuries-old form. Written at the height of the 1960s...

An effective and inspiring guide to songwriting by prolific, iconic singer-songwriter Dar Williams.How to Write a Song That Matters is an invaluable guide to writing music by a woman who knows how to do it and do it well: iconic singer-songwriter, Dar Williams. For...

Author: Michael L. JonesISBN-10: 1540210243ISBN-13: 9781540210241Publisher: History Press Library EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2014Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Using the prize money from his Somerset Maugham Award, Duncan McLean traveled from Orkney, Scotland, to Texas in search of the extraordinary mix of jazz, blues, country, and mariachi that is Western Swing. This account of his travels takes in barbed-wire museums, onion festivals,...

This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to spur further research on...

"To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan," said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote John Rockwell, "Anyone who didn't live...

This collection of 50 beloved Christmas songs has been crafted to provide professional-sounding, easily prepared arrangements for busy pianists. Each arrangement has been carefully engraved for easy reading, and approximate performance times have been included to assist with planning set lists. Perfect for holiday...

There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few seconds, they float in their own space and time with their own hidden prospects. For...

"A handbook for compassion... a Must-Read Music Book."--Rolling Stone Country "Generous and big-hearted, Gauthier has stories to tell and worthwhile advice to share." --Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much Is True "Gauthier has an uncanny ability to combine songwriting craft with a...

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of...

Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie examines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. The text traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as...

The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In M俍ica T厓ica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element of...

Revival movements aim to revitalize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial, and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America, those occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world have...

Folk Songs Of Eastern Europe (1912) is a collection of traditional songs from various countries in Eastern Europe, compiled and edited by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead. The book contains lyrics, musical notation, and brief historical and cultural context for each song. The countries represented include...

The timely, passionate, and humanely political work of America's greatest folk singer and songwriter is presented through his own words and art--curated by Woody's daughter--in this essential self-portrait, including never-before published lyrics and personal writing, and testimony from contemporary writers and musicians on his...

Songbook with 48 german Folk songs from all over the world - simply notated for the Soprano or Tenor Recorder in C.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingering images for the recorder, the rhythm of the tones is given by the lyrics...

Music cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century. Mongolian Sound Worlds investigates the unique sonic elements, fluid genres, social and spatial performativity, and sounding objects behind...

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: Laura Alexandrine SmithISBN-10: 1447453611ISBN-13: 9781447453611Publisher:...

In sunbaked Terlingua, Texas (pop., a few hundred), residents joke that there is a musician under every rock. Located ten miles from Mexico in one of the remotest corners of the United States, the town had a recording studio before it had a school,...

Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while folk musicians re-worked ancient ballads using electric guitars and drum kits. From Dylan to...

Pablo's Fandango is an endearing story about a special boy who discovers the cycle of life when he stumbles upon a lifeless animal. He embarks upon a journey through the Sierra Madre and soon discovers a tradition on the brink of extinction. With his...

For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution. The Foxfire...