Folk Traditional category: 475 books
Oranges and Lemons
Rhymes from Past Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A collection of the most well-known and best-loved nursery rhymes, along with some that may be less familiar. Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes from Past Times plugs into the memories and knowledge of our earliest years, recalling those rhymes and stories we always seem to have known, yet struggle to remember...
by Robert Bancalari
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This comprehensive book contains over 120 Celtic tunes arranged for mandolin presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes airs, marches jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, reels, strathspeys, country dances and selections by famed Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan.
American History in Song
Lyrics from 1900 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Songwriters dramatically captured the details of how Americans lived, thought and changed in the first half of the twentieth century. This book examines 1033 songs about WWI and WWII wars, presidents, Womens Suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, immigration, minority stereotypes, new modes...
When Music Migrates
Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which can be thought of...
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War
'An Old Man's Tears'
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘No Man’s Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)’, have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the...
The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Gender, Performance and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically...
by Adeline Cordier
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of 'Frenchness'. But there is more to the trio than...
From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s
Authenticity, Authority, Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The similarities between the chanson française and the canzone d'autore have been often noted but never fully explored. Both genres are national forms which involve the figure of the singer-songwriter, both experienced their golden age of production in the post-World War II period and both are...
Music and the Road
Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the...
Bob Dylan
American Troubadour
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
With Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, his iconic status as an American musical, cultural, and poetic giant has never been more apparent. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book to look at Dylan’s career, from his first album to his late masterpiece Tempest. Donald...
Making the Great Book of Songs
Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine...
by Glen Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The popular quip, repeated by a number of people, is that "writing about music is like dancing about art"--it's a fun thing to say, but is it true? Is there really no value in writing about music? This collection of reviews begins with an essay describing why music writing is vital to our understanding of what music is and its place within our culture.
by Harvey Kubernik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The death of Leonard Cohen in 2016 struck the world a hard blow; he was a fruitful, thoughtful and tragic talent, with his critically-acclaimed You Want it Darker entering the world only three weeks before his death. Cohen's work is now finished and represents and oeuvre of near unparalleled majesty.
Everybody...
by Norman Lamont
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
The Incredible String Band can seem a little, well, strange to the uninitiated listener. Songs that leap from one genre to another in the course of two lines, long mystical poems and schoolboy humour, wayward harmonies and soundscapes beyond the wildest dreams of a synth. You might think it's...