Folk category: 608 books
John Duffey's Bluegrass Life
Featuring the Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, and Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
John Duffey’s Bluegrass Life: Featuring The Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene and Washington, D.C. with a Foreword by Tom Gray is the definitive biography of one of bluegrass music’s most important artists of the genre. Through his work as a founding member of these two pioneering bands, John Duffey...
by Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in astonishing drawings and watercolors....
by Jill Mullin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This “jaw-droppingly beautiful book” explores the work and creative process of artists diagnosed with ASD, with a foreword by Temple Grandin (Library Journal).
In this volume, behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists with autism...
A Measure of the Earth
The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A Measure of the Earth provides an unparalleled window into an overlooked corner of recent American history: the traditional basketry revival of the past fifty years. Steve Cole and Martha Ware amassed a remarkable collection using the most stringent guidelines: baskets made from undyed domestic materials...
The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance
A Manual for the Student of Hawaiian Dance
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, language, etiquette, ceremonies, and the spiritual culture of hula. Hula, the indigenous dance of Hawai'i, preserves significant aspects of Native Hawaiian culture...
Musical Minorities
The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries....
by Charlotte Vignau
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn provides a fascinating examination of the musical instrument the alphorn, alphorn music and its performance. Indeed, it is the first book about this extraordinary instrument to appear in English. It analyses the alphorn phenomenon as a symbol of the Swiss...
The Popular History of Graffiti
From the Ancient World to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
What is graffiti? And why have we, as a culture, had the urge to do it since 30,000 BCE? Artist Fiona McDonald explores the ways in which graffiti works to forever compel and simultaneously repel us as a society. When did graffiti turn into graffiti art, and why do we now pay thousands of dollars...
by Heather Audin
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Patchwork quilts are hugely evocative emblems of our domestic past. With no two quite the same, each example hints both at the story of the particular household in which it was produced and at a larger piece of social history. But quilting is by no means only historical, with the craft seeing a huge...
by Ron Yule, Bill Burge, Mary Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Louisiana Fiddlers shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule outlines the lives and times of these performers, who represent a multitude of fiddling styles including Cajun, country, western swing, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, contest...
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their...
Lone Stars III
A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986-2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From frontier times in the Republic of Texas until today, Texans have been making gorgeous quilts. Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes documented the first 150 years of the state's rich heritage of quilt art in Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936 and Lone Stars II:...
Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout
A Hillbilly Poet's Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash & More
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Award winning songwriter, musician, author, playwright, poet, visual artist, and Appalachian Renaissance man Billy Edd Wheeler is best known for penning "Jackson," which was popularized by Johnny Cash and June Carter with their Grammy-winning recording from 1967. In addition to his own albums...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Composers of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...