Folk category: 608 books
Shout Because You're Free
The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...
by Tom Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
Words and music to forty-one folk songs.
by Mark Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This giant book features over 100 of America's favorite folk songs, expertly arranged for the Appalachian dulcimer. Children's songs, work songs, old Anglo-American ballads, songs of strife and freedom, love songs and much, much more are all gathered here in arrangements suitable for the beginning...
Great and Noble Jar
Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K. Baldwin offers the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and traces the ways in which a rich regional tradition emerged from a unique cultural source.
As Baldwin notes, South Carolina's old legislative district of Edgefield (an area now comprising...
Sang-Thong A Dance-Drama from Thailand
A Dance-Drama From Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Sang Thong: A Dance-Drama from Thailand, a beloved treasure of Thailand's classical theater is now available for the first time in English.
Composed by King Rama II and his court poets early in the 19th century, this captivating dance-drama blends ribald humor, sharp observation, and graceful...
The Creature Garden
An Illustrator's Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The Creature Garden takes you on a step-by-step expedition through the natural world, teaching you how to draw and paint 50 animals in a whimsical folk-art style. Your guides on this journey are the husband-and-wife illustrator team Harry and Zanna Goldhawk, the founders of Papio Press, who will teach...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
All The Little Lights is the third studio album released by British folk-rock singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger.
This beautifully arranged songbook, for Piano, Vocal and Guitar, contains sheet music for all songs from the album, including the hugely successful Let Her Go.
by Merlin Speers
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Merlin’s Guide to the Merlin: Ten Fun Songs for the Seagull Merlin
Contents:
-Amazing Grace
-Arkansas Traveler
-Aura Lee
-Blackberry Blossom
-The Devil’s Dream
-Fisher’s Hornpipe
-Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself
-Minuet in G (in D)
-Ode to Joy
-Swallowtail Jig
Merlin’s Guide to the...
by Tommy Sands
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives. As a child, he was immersed in folk music - his father played the fiddle, his mother the accordion. The kitchen was where Protestant and Catholic...
Hang Down Your Head
A Randy Craig Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Despite her best efforts to lead a peaceful life, murder, mystery and mayhem continue to follow reluctant sleuth Randy Craig. Maybe she shouldn?t live in Edmonton. Or date a cop. Or work for the famous Folkways Collection library on the University of Alberta campus. Randy has just started the dream...
Peter Paul and Mary
Fifty Years in Music and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
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, taken over...
Korean P'ansori Singing Tradition
Development, Authenticity, and Performance History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p’ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. P’ansori is a music genre—an oral tradition comprisingi arias...
by Suzi Parron
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. The first of these projects began in 2001, when Groves and community members created a series of twenty painted...
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in “fakes” that occasionally make...