Traditional and folk music

A combination dictionary and annotated discography, videography and bibliography, this sourcebook brings together listings of materials on the Rastafarian movement and reggae music.

Q: Is he afraid of work?

This vintage book contains the sheet music and lyrics for a variety of traditional British dances, including country dances, Morris dances, jigs, reels, and more.

A collection of 15 Moravian folksongs originally composed in 1922.

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

Originally published in 1969.

Wade Mainer (b.

This work by Hermann Lohr was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it for the modern reader.

Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists.

Originally published in 1980.

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s.

African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day.

This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Frederic Chopin that will delight any pianist.

Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984).

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America.

Based on extensive archival research and oral history, Staging Tradition traces the parallel careers of the creators of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and the National Folk Festival.

This book examines the community-based learning and teaching of 'traditional' music in contemporary Scotland, with implications for transnational theoretical issues.

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Record Labels-Certificate of Merit (2012)The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century.

The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method.

We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures.

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008.

This collection of thirty-seven entries selected from the more than 550 that make up the International Encyclopedia of Communications focuses on expressive forms and practices that are popular and participatory in nature: folklore forms such as folktale and riddle; cultural performances such as ritual and festival; and popular entertainments such as puppetry and mime.

Richard Wagner is mainly known as a music dramatist, but his piano pieces are also worth discovering and allow the voice of the dramatist to be heard in echoes.

While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be?

Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape.

Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu.

Carol Cash Large, longtime friend of Blake Shelton, helped move the award-winning musician to Nashville just two weeks after he graduated high school at the tender age of seventeen and has been with him every step of the way since.

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe.

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India.

This collection presents a selection of Robert Schumann's works that will delight every pianist.

Melodious panpipes and kena flutes.

With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies, Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music.

Arthel Doc Watson (19232012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced.

From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace.

Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British.

Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work.

Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more - this is the story of A.

Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as "e;Bob Dylan,"e; renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones.

Samba is Brazil's "e;national rhythm,"e; the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world.

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s.

James Hembray Wilson was an African-American soloist, composer, conductor, and music professor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced stars as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Donovan, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Bernard Butler, Beth Orton and Laura Marling.

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?

Whether accompanying a march, a sit-in, or a confrontation with police, songs and protest are inextricably linked.

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

This book is a piece of serious musicology by a man who has worked as a song collector himself, but his erudition is lightly worn.

In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.

This book contains a vintage guide to designing and constructing wooden pipe instruments.