Folk & traditional music books

In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqu...  Read More >>

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This book traces the early history of the first English folksong revival during the late Victorian era, focusing...  Read More >>

The War and Peace of Rock and Roll. --Bob Dylan In 1975, as Bob Dylan emerged from eight years of seclusion, he...  Read More >>

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The Ottawa Valley is a region of Canada straddling the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec that is well known for...  Read More >>

The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none...  Read More >>

Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews'...  Read More >>

In the 1940s and ’50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers...  Read More >>

Focuses on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth...  Read More >>

A new volume on traditional Welsh music, written by one of the best-known characters in Wales, Meredydd Evans. He...  Read More >>

The basic idea underlying the Series 11 - Croatian Recordings - was conceived by Gerda Lechleitner (Phonogrammarchiv...  Read More >>

(Guitar Chord Songbook). A pocket-sized resource of nearly 70 Williams' classics, including: Cold, Cold Heart *...  Read More >>

Music from the Margins The Agony of the Greeks. During the 1920s, over a million and a half Greeks were forced to...  Read More >>

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained...  Read More >>

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained...  Read More >>

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Shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule...  Read More >>

Leonard Cohen's entire, fascinating story, featuring details of his brand new material and interviews with key Cohen...  Read More >>

A collection of over 200 photographs of folk musicians during the 1960s, presenting a portrait of a vibrant urban...  Read More >>

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Features a translation of the diaries of Seamus Ennis, fulltime collector of music and song with the Irish Folklore...  Read More >>

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