Traditional and folk music

This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d''Urfey through to Kanye West.

At just twenty-two years old, Melanie was the first female solo performer at the historic 1969 Woodstock Festival, transforming into an overnight sensation.

Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published.

Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song-street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation-in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras.

"Manchmal habe ich den Eindruck, er sitzt neben mir.

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States.

Originally published in 1968.

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common?

First published in 1910, "e;Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties"e; is a vintage collection of traditional sailing songs, collected and published in this volume by W.

This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Love Dream No.

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks.

Ferdinand Ries – ein Name, der oft im Schatten seines berühmten Lehrers Ludwig van Beethoven steht, doch dessen Leben und Werk einen faszinierenden Blick auf eine der spannendsten Epochen der Musikgeschichte bietet.

Clinton Heylin's biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy's closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her diaries and unreleased work, to produce a moving portrait of a complex, driven, but fatally flawed genius, who remains the finest female singer-songwriter this country has ever produced.

Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didnt just happen.

This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling.

Maurice Ravel, der Meister der Klangfarben, hat die Musik des 20.

Composer John Donald Robb (1892-1989) built an invaluable legacy in the preservation of New Mexico's rich musical traditions.

Edvard Grieg, der bedeutendste Komponist Norwegens, schuf eine einzigartige Verbindung zwischen den Klängen seiner Heimat und den Idealen der europäischen Romantik.

Anna Magdalena Bach wird oft nur als die Frau an der Seite eines der größten Komponisten der Geschichte wahrgenommen – doch ihre Rolle ging weit über die eines stillen Beobachters hinaus.

Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that-to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and satire, all of which are included in I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, which represents the majority of what Ochs wrote outside of his large circle of songs.

An intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend.

Calling Back the Spirit describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi are defending their local spirit through music and dance.

Georgi Wassiljewitsch Swiridow gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten der Sowjetunion und Meister der russischen Musik des 20.

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art.

The banjo has been emblematic of the Southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century.

An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon.

Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986-1990 And Beyond is the third volume of US critic Paul Williams' widely acclaimed writings on the music and performances of Bob Dylan.

Salomon Jadassohn war weit mehr als ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist und Theoretiker des 19.

Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

"e;Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together.

Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora.

This work represents a lifetime of research by Wayne Erbsen, professor of old-time and bluegrass music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, who interviewed many legendary figures in Appalachian music.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Pine Apple Rag, originally composed in 1908.

When he was in graduate school in the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy began documenting the "e;roots"e; music styles of largely forgotten southern musicians in a series of field recordings.

Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s.

Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typescript.

"e;Pygmy music"e; has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation.

A collection of favourite Christmas carols for piano, voice and guitar with full texts.

Jan Ladislas Dussek, einer der herausragendsten Pianisten und Komponisten des 18.

When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a "e;race of singers"e; who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy.

A complete history of Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern, "e;the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,"e; to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.

The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival.

Marcella Sembrich's collection of favourite folk songs from all around the globe.