Folk category: 608 books
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In the winter of 2006, Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver picked up a guitar, a laptop and some basic recording equipment and retreated to a remote cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to lick his wounds. The story of how he recorded alt-folk classic For Emma, Forever Ago has become the stuff of musical myth.
He...
The Chieftains
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Since their humble beginnings in the folk clubs and bars of Ireland in the early '60s, The Chieftains have built a worldwide reputation and following based on their brilliant musicianship, their rediscovery and reinvention of traditional Irish music, and their own original music and Oscar-winning...
Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation
A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock'n'roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance;...
Worlds of Sound
The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A man, a microphone, and a dream
When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created Folkways Records to achieve his goal, not just a record label but a statement that all sounds...
"Venceremos"
Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile’s presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power as folk singers emerged at the forefront proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. “Venceremos” charts the development...
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie,...
Balkan Fascination
Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail...
by Anthony Reynolds, Marion Ahl
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Lebendig wie ein Film, gedreht an den verschiedensten Schauplätzen auf mehreren Kontinenten, schildert dieses Buch das Leben und das Werk eines der größten Singer/ Songwriter unserer Zeit. Von den ersten Anfängen als mittelloser Dichter in seiner kanadischen Heimatstadt Montreal begleitet es Leonard...
by Alec Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger.
Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers...
Scroll Paintings of Bengal
Art in the Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Th e art of vernacular painting in India is not only varied and rich but also intriguing for several reasons. With such observations the book addresses certain issues, like the validity of the historical information on Indian Art that excludes vernacular trends. The information on vernacular art in...
by Oak Publications
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1982
This volume is a monument among ballad books containing 158 of the most popular Irish ballads and songs which echo and resound throughout the pubs of Ireland and indeed throughout the world by Ireland’s leading folk groups. Along with notes on many of the ballads, this book features a fine collection...
by Barbara Calamari, Sandra DiPasqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A treasury of the devotional art that has comforted and inspired millions of Catholics—portraying a remarkable gallery of saints.
Often used in daily rituals or given out at significant life events such as wakes and funerals, communions and confirmations, the holy card can be appreciated...