Traditional and folk music Books

""Die Dreilinden-Lieder"" ist ein Buch von Balduin Mollhausen, das erstmals im Jahr 1896 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Liedern und Gedichten, die von der Natur und dem Landleben inspiriert sind. Der Titel des Buches bezieht...

Das Buch ""Die Deutschen Volkslieder und M�����rchen"" von Karl Knortz wurde im Jahr 1889 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine Sammlung von traditionellen deutschen Volksliedern und M�����rchen, die seit Jahrhunderten von Generation zu Generation...

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...

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old-time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to America and neatly trimmed fir trees bloomed with...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads, annotated and organized them, with notes describing the...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in...

This collection includes sea chantey variations, sea songs, work songs, parodies, light verse, forecastle songs, and the occasional ballads culled over the last year from newspapers, libraries, and online sources. Most of the songs originated between...

In "Countryman," Ed Konecnik documents his life as both an American son of immigrants and a renowned documentarian and performer of folk music in his parents' homeland of Slovakia. The importance of folk music as a genre comes into sharp focus as we see...

Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious...

This a memoir of William V. Muse who grew up in rural Mississippi and Louisiana as the seventh son of a Pentacostal minister. By winning academic scholarships, he was able to earn bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees and advance thru an academic career...

Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song is a collection of sea songs, sea shanties and ballads that reflects Salem's rich maritime history and its relationship to the sea. Salem, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the maritime history of America. Salem's...

Day and Night Songs is a collection of poems written by William Allingham and first published in 1854. The poems are divided into two sections, with the first section containing poems about the beauty and wonder of nature during the day, and the second...

This book contains a collection of 35 entirely new and original works by musician Johnny Willis, composed for fellow members of the Yorkshire Concertina Club. In addition to concertina, the majority of pieces are suitable for many instruments including...

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...

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...

Lady Nairne and Her Songs is a book written by George Henderson and published in 1905. The book is a biography of Lady Carolina Nairne, a Scottish songwriter and poet who lived from 1766 to 1845. Henderson provides a detailed account of Lady Nairne's...

The Legend Of The Wondrous Hunt: With A Few Miscellaneous Pieces And Folk Songs is a book written by John Arany and published in 1881. The book is a collection of various literary works, including a legend about a magical hunt, several miscellaneous...

With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its...

Daniel Decatur Emmett: Author Of Dixie (1904) is a biographical book written by Charles Burleigh Galbreath that tells the story of the life and career of Daniel Decatur Emmett, the American songwriter who is best known for writing the popular song...

Love folk music? Liza Mulholland invites you Inside Folk to share an insight into her experience as a contemporary Scottish musician. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in folk music, she reflects on elements of a typical year - performing,...

This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis,...

Where Rivers and Mountains Sing takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo, the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals, and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a...

This book challenges the monolithic portrayals of folk music and social change under communism by making a case for "people's music" and shows how new folk music embodies an inherently pluralistic concept of Yugoslavia's culture.

Traditionally gnawa musicians in Morocco played for all-night ceremonies where communities gathered to invite spirits to heal mental, physical, and social ills untreatable by other means. Now gnawa music can be heard on the streets of Marrakech, at...

""The Legend of Phyllis: With a Year of Song"" is a book written by William Sawyer and published in 1872. The book is a collection of poems and songs that tell the story of Phyllis, a legendary figure from Greek mythology. The book is divided into twelve...

Songs and Tales: A Collection of Songs and Tales from Life and Imagination is a book published in 1910 by David Chalmers Nimmo. The book contains a collection of stories and songs that the author has written, drawing inspiration from his own life...

Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the...

This book examines the community-based learning and teaching of 'traditional' music in contemporary Scotland, with implications for transnational theoretical issues. The book draws on a broad range of scholarship and a local case study of a large...

In this riveting personal story, award-winning, bestselling country musicrecording artist Merle Haggard takesyou on a tour through his house ofmemories, offering a fascinating lookinside his turbulent yet successful life.Merle reveals the true stories...

1768 saw the birth of a century of struggle for democracy by the working people of Great Britain; it was also the golden age of the broadside ballad - inexpensive songsheets sold on the street, often spotlighting popular figures and spreading the word of...

Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pieces performed in pubs of the Sheffield Moorlands area at Christmas, called ‘Mass...

Old Ballads Illustrating The Great Frost Of 1683-84: And The Fair On The River Thames (1844) is a book written by Edward Francis Rimbault. The book contains a collection of ballads that describe the Great Frost of 1683-84, which was a severe winter that...

Bernard Von Rouvenac, Ein Provenzalischer Trobador Des XIII Jahrhunderts (1907) is a book written by Gunther Bosdorff. It is a biography of Bernard Von Rouvenac, a Proven�����al troubadour who lived in the 13th century. The book provides a detailed...

The Morris Book, Part 4: With A Description Of Dances As Performed By The Morris Men Of England (1911) is a comprehensive guide to the traditional English folk dance known as Morris dancing. Written by Cecil James Sharp, a prominent figure in the English...

Jewish Musical Traditions is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Amnon Shiloah, the world's leading authority on the Arab and Jewish musical traditions, tells a musical story...

Folk Music in the United States gives readers a broad overview of many kinds of folk music found in this country, from the songs of rural Appalachia and New England through the indigenous music of the American Indians and the African music brought by...

Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth...