Folk category: 608 books
by Mykola Lysenko
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Four classic Ukrainian folk songs composed by Mykola Lysenko. Songs include: Безъ тебе Олесю, Ой зрада кари очи зрада, Юлыве човенъ воды повенъ, Ой у поли тай у Баришполи. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive...
Fun with Folk Songs
With Chords for all Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Includes chords for all instruments on famous folk songs such as Billy Boy, Frankie and Johnny, Careless Love, and many more.
by Gustave Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
A collection of 12 classic French folk songs with English translation, composed by Gustave Ferrari. Originally published in 1907. 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 world over.
by Kim Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
This book illustrates a variety of accompaniment patterns and arrangement techniques for the folk harpist. The procedure taught in this book will enable the intermediate to advanced harper to play any melody beautifully on the pedal free harp.
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUT magazine
Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and...
Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960s
When Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle...
Alan Lomax
The Man Who Recorded the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who...
The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically...
It Still Moves
Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
"Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?"
--Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust
Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today's avant...
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by Dave Van Ronk
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a...
Waltz the Hall
The American Play Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle to be the devil's instrument? The American play party was the fundamentalist's answer. Here the singing was a cappella, the dancers followed prescribed steps, and arm and elbow...
by William Dorich
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The only defenders of Serbian art and culture in these difficult centuries were the peasants who played the Gusle, a one-stringed instrument. As their punishment for playing a musical instrument many of these musicians were blinded by their oppressors resulting in thousands of such punishments. Being...
26 Songs in 30 Days
Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”--when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Timed to celebrate the...
The Mountain of the Women
Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.
Following in the grand tradition...