Folk category: 608 books
by DeWitt Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Pedal steel innovator Scotty Scott handpicked these 23 classic gospel tunes for their ease in playing. Written in standard notation and tablature. E9 tuning. Audio available online.
by Meg Peterson, Dan Fox
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Thirty-one Christmas songs from all over the world arranged for autoharp or chromaharp. The arrangements in this book assume that the player had mastered simple strumming techniques and knows the fundamentals of autoharp playing. Many of the arrangements bring out the richness of the carols through...
by Nikolai Findeizen, Daniel C. Waugh, Malcolm Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of...
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist...
Blood on the Mirror
True story from the streets to redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Pregnancy - What is this thing doing in me?
Abortions - What have I done?
Miscarriages - Why does this always happen to me?
Street Life - I feel so cold and alone
Prostitution - It’s only for some extra money
Fetish Industry - I can make them feel the pain I do
Drug...
Dancing the New World
Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the “Indian” dances they encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of Spanish missionaries...
by Kenneth D Ollis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2003
A book of verse so plain and clear
To ease the mind and please the ear.
So easy to read, no burdensome lines.
No lingering stories of trouble times.
This poetry is written in a style different from any I have seen before. Each poem is distinctly different from others within the book. Collectively...
by Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and...
The Glendale Bards
A Selection of Songs and Poems by Niall Macleoid (1843-1913), 'The Bard of Skye', His Brother Iain Dubh (1847-1901) and Father Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787-1873)
Language: Scottish Gaelic
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book marks the centenary of Neil MacLeod's death in 1913 with the republication of some of his work. It also publishes for the first time all of the identifiable work of his brother, Iain Dubh (1847 - 1901), and of their father, Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787 - 1873). Their contrasting styles mark...
by L.E. McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1987
This book is a comprehensive, detailed approach to playing Irish music on the tinwhistle. It has been written especially for new enthusiasts who live impossibly far from Irish musicians and are fretfully asking themselves, “Where Can I Ever Learn To Play?” It contains information on technique...
100 Tunes from O'Neill's Music of Ireland
Selected and Arranged in Sets for Mandolin
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Anyone who is serious about learning Irish traditional music will eventually come across O'Neill's Music of Ireland, a collection of well over 1000 tunes. This book contains a selection of one hundred tunes from this collection, arranged into sets for mandolin which can be used at sessions, and for...
Balinese Dance, Drama & Music
A Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Bali has long been known for its deep spirituality and extraordinary artistic heritage.
The dances, dramas, puppetry and music of Bali are more than icons for the island; they are part and parcel of life—as expressions of devotion to the gods, as entertainment, and as a way of instilling...
by Mary Emmerling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
From Day of the Dead to motorcycles and the “sickest headphones”—skulls rule! Laugh at Death over and over again through more than 250 fun, fabulous pictures of skulls in action—on the dance floor, in the parlor, zooming out of the garage, dangling from silver chains. These artisandesigned...
by Caron Caswell Lazar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Escape to the perfect world! A world where prejudice is passé, order is normal, and function is favored. This is the world of the Shakers.Best-known as an eighteenth-century utopian religious community, and often liken to the Amish, few are aware of the many accomplishments that are distinctly Shaker....