Folk & traditional music books

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The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment...

Author: Elisabeth Le Guin
ISBN: 9780520276307
Format: Hardback
$115.95

The tonadilla, a satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has...  Read More >>

A Southern Music: Exploring the Karnatik Tradition

A Southern Music: Exploring the Karnatik Tradition

Author: Krishna T.M.
ISBN: 9789350298213
Format: Hardback
$118.80

One of the foremost Karnatik vocalists today, T.M. Krishna writes lucidly and passionately about the form, its history,...  Read More >>

Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads

Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads

Author: John A Lomax ,  Alan Lomax
ISBN: 9781322065434
Format: Electronic book text
$50.03

This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes...  Read More >>

I Hear America Singing

I Hear America Singing

Author: Rachel Clare Donaldson
ISBN: 9781322141312
Format: Electronic book text
$236.28

Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings...  Read More >>

Paul Simon

Paul Simon

Author: Cornel Bonca
ISBN: 9781322208749
Format: Electronic book text
$105.57

In Paul Simon: An American Tune, Cornel Bonca considers Simon's vast trove of songs in the biographical and cultural...  Read More >>

Music and Social Change in South Africa

Music and Social Change in South Africa

Author: Kathryn Olsen
ISBN: 9781322221106
Format: Electronic book text
$170.28

Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast...  Read More >>

Peter Paul and Mary

Peter Paul and Mary

Author: Peter Yarrow ,  Noel Paul Stookey
ISBN: 9781322287614
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

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We Shall Overcome

We Shall Overcome

Author: Victor V Bobetsky
ISBN: 9781322565118
Format: Electronic book text
$197.97

We Shall Overcome is an American folk song that has influenced American and world history like few others. At different...  Read More >>

Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums

Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums

Author: Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Peter Manuel (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781322334981
Format: Electronic book text
$158.40

Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten...  Read More >>

This Land that I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems

This Land that I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie,...

Author: John Shaw
ISBN: 9781610392235
Format: Hardback
$47.00

Woody Guthrie's ""This Land is Your Land"" was originally written as a caustic rebuttal to Irving Berlin's ""God...  Read More >>

Top-Requested Country Sheet Music: 17 Country Hits Arranged for Piano and Voice

Top-Requested Country Sheet Music: 17 Country Hits Arranged...

Author: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781470611026
Format: Paperback
$44.85

For pianists and singers looking to perform the most famous country music, this songbook offers great value and...  Read More >>

30 Nursery Rhymes with Sheet Music and Fingering for Tin Whistle

30 Nursery Rhymes with Sheet Music and Fingering for...

Author: Stephen Ducke
ISBN: 9781494342333
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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30 Christmas Carols with Sheet Music and Fingering for Tin Whistle

30 Christmas Carols with Sheet Music and Fingering for...

Author: Stephen Ducke
ISBN: 9781494340704
Format: Paperback
$23.73

30 traditional Christmas Carols with sheet music and fingering diagrams for Irish tin whistle. Simple, easy-to-follow...  Read More >>

Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles

Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in...

Author: Catherine L. Kurland ,  Enrique R. Lamadrid
ISBN: 9780826353726
Format: Paperback
$79.07

""Catherine L. Kurland brings together the contributors of this...  Read More >>

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Author: George McKay
ISBN: 9780472052097
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Author: George McKay
ISBN: 9780472072095
Format: Hardback
$237.47

A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability  Read More >>

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black...

Author: Umi Vaughan
ISBN: 9780472035755
Format: Paperback
$76.43

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social...  Read More >>

Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Author: Lila Ellen Gray
ISBN: 9780822354710
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This ethnography of fado, Portugal's most celebrated popular music genre, shows how a musical genre can sediment,...  Read More >>

The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir

The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir...

Author: Elijah Wald ,  Dave Van Ronk
ISBN: 9780306822162
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Author: Lila Ellen Gray
ISBN: 9780822354598
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This ethnography of fado, Portugal's most celebrated popular music genre, shows how a musical genre can sediment,...  Read More >>

Folk Roots for Piano

Folk Roots for Piano

Author: Janet Way
ISBN: 9780851629285
Format: Undefined
$73.89

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Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings

Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax...

Author: Joshua Clegg Caffery ,  Barry Jean Ancelet
ISBN: 9780807152010
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Intimate in its presentation of Louisiana folklife and broad in its historical scope, Traditional Music in Coastal...  Read More >>

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