Folk category: 608 books
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
Folksongs of the Lower Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance,...
by Tim Jumper
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Over 200 great songs arranged for the five-string banjo complete with lyrics for each song. Includes folk songs, sentimental favourites, song of the sea, fiddle tunes, and much more.
Hecho a Mano
The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Arts as intimate as a piece of needlework or a home altar. Arts as visible as decorative iron, murals, and low riders. Through such arts, members of Tucson's Mexican American community contribute much of the cultural flavor that defines the city to its residents and to the outside world. Now Tucson...
The Island of Lace
Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladies’ Foundation and Saba’s director of tourism, traveled to the island with the intent to document...
by William Bay
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
A comprehensive 96-page, large print/big note perfect-bound collection of all time favorite violin tunes. Includes folk songs, sea chanties, gospel songs, spirituals, hymns, patriotic sons and more. Guitar chords are included.
Warrior Lore
Scandinavian Ballads
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Thor resorts to cross-dressing in a bid to recover his stolen hammer. The hero Widrick Waylandsson comes face to face with a troll in the forest. A king's daughter is abducted from a convent in rural Sweden. A young fighter has to show off his prowess in skiing and shooting for King Harald Hardrada....
by Star Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Before the 1700s, Celtic music enjoyed a long oral music tradition of learning and memorizing tunes without the aid of pen and paper. The pages of this anthology are filled with the rich heritage of Celtic music tucked away in historical collections from the late 1700s and 1800s. It is a treasure...
Moonlight: Music On a Mountain
The Detailed & Whimsical Diary of a 21st Century Deep-South Listening Room
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
"Moonlight: Music On A Mountain" is a compendium of over three hundred weekly newsletters emailed to the fans and supporters of an original acoustic music venue in Birmingham Alabama. Part diary, part blog, and part encyclopedia, this collection presents the proprietor’s voice, views, and visions...
Ballad Tales
An Anthology of British Ballads Retold
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
A ballad is a song that tells a story and many traditional British ballads contain fascinating stories—tales of love and jealousy, murder and mystery, the supernatural and the historical. This anthology brings together 19 original retellings in short story form, written by some of the country's...
by Lily Afshar
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Here, for the first time, Mel Bay Publications offers Persian folk music arranged for the guitar by the Iranian-born, award winning international concert guitarist, Lily Afshar. This collection includes four love songs and a lullaby. These arrangements are extremely lyrical as they depict a singer's...
by Leon Rosselson, Mitchell Abidor
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen...
Scandinavian Song
A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Repertoire and Diction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Scandinavian art songs are a unique expression of the cultures of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Although these three countries are distinct from one another, their languages and cultures share many similarities. Common themes found in art and literature include a love of nature, especially of the sea,...
Cancionero
Songs of Laughter and Faith in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Composer John Donald Robb (1892–1989) built an invaluable legacy in the preservation of New Mexico’s rich musical traditions. His extensive field recordings, compositions, papers, and photographs now comprise the John Donald Robb Archives in the University of New Mexico Libraries’ Center for...
Right to the Juke Joint
A Personal History of American Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilized/native...