Folk Music
"Music, Culture and Experience"Selected Papers of John Blacking
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"Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology" series; This volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system. With music. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 228 x 150 mm. Weight: 396g.
Author: Blacking, John
ISBN: 0226088308
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date: 1995 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Folk Music
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"Music in Central Java"Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
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"Global Music" series; Introducing cultural and social processes and the values of music in Javanese life, this text features eye witness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, hands-on activities, vivid illustrations and a 70 minute CD of the author's field recordings. The author provides a survey of other music that may be found in Central Java. With halftones and line drawings. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 208 x 138 mm. Weight: 237g.
Author: Brinner, Benjamin
ISBN: 0195147375
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Folk Music
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"The British Folk Revival 1944-2002"
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"Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series" series; During the 1960s a revival of interest in folk music in Britain led to a polarization and the contemporary-versus-traditional debate began in earnest. The author traces this revival and the recent history of British folk music in a highly accessible and readable style. With bibliography, discography. Paperback, 300 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 363g.
Author: Brocken, Michael
ISBN: 0754632822
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Stagolee Shot Billy"
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Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as Deep Morgan, Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend of Stagolee to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. An Esquire Best Book of 2003. (African-American Studies) With 5 halftones & 1 line illus. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 197 x 136 mm. Weight: 342g.
Author: Brown, Cecil
ISBN: 0674016262
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Folk Music
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"The Jimmy Shand Story"The King of Scottish Dance Music
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With portraits. Hardback, 208 pages. Size: 210 x 145 mm. Weight: 544g.
Author: Cameron, Ian
ISBN: 1840170190
Publisher: Scottish Cultural Press
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Flight of the Conchords"
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Features Bret McKenzie (guitar and vocals) and Jemaine Clement (vocals and guitar), who are New Zealand's fourth best folk guitar-based jazz, techno, hip-hop duo. This work presents their attempts to crack the UK's novelty music scene with songs such as Frodo, Don't Wear The Ring, Fudafafa, Hiphopapotamus, and Think About It. Cd-Audio, Weight: 193g.
Author: Clement, J. McKenzie, B.
ISBN: 1846070708
Publisher: Bbc Consumer Publishing
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"America Over the Water"
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In 1959, Shirley Collins, a nineteen-year-old folk singer from Hastings set out on an extraordinary journey across the deep American South with Alan Lomax, the great American folklorist. This title blends the personal story of Shirley's relationship with Lomax, with an account of America on the brink of the civil rights era. With over 100 b&w photographs & illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 215 x 150 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Collins, Shirley
ISBN: 0946719918
Publisher: Saf Publishing Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"John Denver"Mother Nature's Son
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In this text, John Collis has delved deep to discover exactly who John Denver was. By unravelling the complexities of the singer's personality and background, he reveals Denver as a complicated, contradictory man, more intriguing than the sometimes placid surface of his music might suggest. With illustrations. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 199 x 129 mm. Weight: 234g.
Author: Collis, John
ISBN: 1840187794
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Ramblin' Man"The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
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A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his mother. With 8pp illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 512 pages. Size: 207 x 181 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Cray, Ed
ISBN: 0393327361
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Live Fast, Love Hard"The Faron Young Story
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"Music in American Life" series; An intimate biography of honky-tonk great Faron Young. As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams' death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville's music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff produced a string of Top Ten hits, placed over eighty songs on the country music charts. With 25 illustrations. Hardback, 240 pages. Size: 236 x 163 mm. Weight: 614g.
Author: Diekman, Diane
ISBN: 0252032489
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Fiddling in West Africa"Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures
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A study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures of West Africa. This book not only explains the history of the instrument itself, but also discusses the processes of stylistic transference and adaptation, suggesting how these may have contributed to differing performance practices. With 19 b&w photographs, 34 figures, 10 maps. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 235 x 161 mm. Weight: 551g.
Author: Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell
ISBN: 0253219299
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Folk Music
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"The Folk Handbook"Working With Songs From the English Tradition
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Many of the great songs that have inspired performers around the world in the last 50 years come from the English folk song tradition. This book provides words and melodies for nearly 100 songs, along with an exploration of their history and meaning, the context in which they arose, and their value to writers and performers around the world. With b&w. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 280 x 235 mm. Weight: 1247g.
Author: English Folk Dance and Song Society
ISBN: 0879309016
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Klezmer America"Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
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Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. With 17 illus. Hardback, 408 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 673g.
Author: Freedman, Jonathan
ISBN: 0231142781
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Folk Music
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"Bound for Glory"
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"Penguin Modern Classics" series; An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards. With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 200 x 129 mm. Weight: 264g.
Author: Guthrie, Woody
ISBN: 0141187220
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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"Bodhran Basics"
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"Bodhran" series; An introductory course in the art of playing the bodhran, covering all the basic techniques needed to accompany traditional and other music. Complete beginner's pack with 32-page illustrated booklet, crammed with features, diagrams and examples. Demo cassette included, playing all the techniques discussed in the book, plus traditional tunes to play along with. With mus.exs.. Mixed Media Product, 32 pages. Size: 150 x 200 mm. Weight: 14g.
Author: Hannigan, Steafan
ISBN: 0946005877
Publisher: Music Sales Ltd
Date: 1996 (Ireland)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Folk Music
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