Folk & traditional music books

"""The Besom Maker and Other Country Folk Songs"" is a collection of traditional English countryside songs first...  Read More >>

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With chapters on Lead Belly, Thomas Hart Benton, John Huston, Mae West, and Sterling Brown, this innovative book...  Read More >>

Michael Cain offers an informal social history that describes Americana as both a musical genre and a movement,...  Read More >>

Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music’s transformation from a rural,...  Read More >>

Joe Wilson served for twenty-eight years as executive director of the National Folk Festival and National Council...  Read More >>

One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan 'went electric'...  Read More >>

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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan 'went electric'...  Read More >>

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A unique treasure trove of traditional Scottish nursery rhymes, Auld Sangs for Bairns & Wee Weans contains more...  Read More >>

How Louisiana musicians and audiences negotiate with difference and shape a common musical heritage  Read More >>

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For over fifty years, Bill Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated...  Read More >>

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This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The...  Read More >>

Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of...  Read More >>

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A passionate insider's account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene  Read More >>

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