Folk category: 608 books
North Florida Folk Music
History & Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
North Florida's proud folk music heritage reaches back more than half a century. The region claims many talented artists and song writers, including Frank Thomas, Bob Patterson and Charlie Robertson, while hundreds of solo, duo and group performers regularly inspire audiences at local venues. The Stephen...
Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
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 on the complex cultural history...
Singing from the Floor
A History of British Folk Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians,...
The Denver Folk Music Tradition
An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association. These two organizations...
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
The Never-Ending Highway
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for more than 50 years, and his life and career...
The Conscience of the Folk Revival
The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Israel G. “Izzy” Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information...
Wounds to Bind
A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan’s unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything.
As a naïve folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds, the Rolling...
Performing Englishness
Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of...
Crafting Gender
Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art...
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of...
Modern Folk Embroidery
30 Contemporary Projects for Folk Art Inspired Designs
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
“Her unique color combinations, stitching style and use of felt present a fun and fresh take on the age-old decorative stitching method.” —Bolt Fabric Boutique
Folk art is influencing everything from fashion to interiors and now you can incorporate this trend into your home in a contemporary...
by Marcella Sembrich
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Marcella Sembrich's collection of favourite folk songs from all around the globe. Features folk songs from America, England, Russia, Italy, Turkey, China, France and many many more. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works...
by Rick Payne
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Fingerstyle guitar has always been the most satisfying ways of playing guitar. I started the long journey on the fingerstyle road when I had my first classical guitar lessons many years ago. From there my interest in grew into using folk styles of fingerstyle, especially after listening to players...
Mi Familia Calaca / My Skeleton Family
A Mexican Folk Art Family in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Welcome to the family! It's just like yours: father, mother, sister, brother, abuelita, gato, even a great-great grandmother. Well, but there's something just a little bit different about this particular family. Maybe it's those clothes they wear . . . just a little bit fashion backward. And the colors!...