Explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. This book discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another. It also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie.

Offers an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. This title features an accompanying CD that presents both traditional and contemporary sounds of Irish music at home and abroad.

Offers an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. This title features an accompanying CD that presents both traditional and contemporary sounds of Irish music at home and abroad.

Explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, this book investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow.

This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. This book presents an overview of international folk roots from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change.

Udje Dance Songs of the Urhobo People.

Aims to provide a comprehensive description of the song culture of the people of the Thule area, the Inughuit. This study includes the views of the indigenous population; measurable parameters, such as singing methods, drum construction and handling; and, information about form and melody derived from the transcriptions.

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.

Explores the identity of British agricultural laborers during a time of crisis for the British countryside. This book shows how they expressed grievances and celebrated their sexuality and way of life through songs.

Recognizing music as a vital social and cultural force, this volume focuses on the region of East Asia looking at the role of music in the lives, arts and culture of its people.

The Northern Roots of American Music From Hank Snow to the Band.

Gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. This book and DVD, gives the background to the area and music-making in society. It also discusses the lives of bards and shawm bands respectively, describing modifications in their ceremonial activities through the 20th century.

This second fascicle includes two further suites from the Ichikotsu-ch mode-key group.

During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China. This music, known as Tang Music , is preserved in manuscripts and this book reproduces the music as it survives and looks at the history of each piece.

This fourth fascicle publishes fourteen items, from the second scroll of pieces belonging to the Ichikotsu-cho mode-key group.

Fascicle 3 publishes smaller suites and pieces, together representative of the 'middle-sized pieces' and 'small pieces'.

Presents a memoir of the '60s Greenwich Village folk revival. This book features encounters with some of the young stars-to-be that the author mentored, like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, John Baez, and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries like Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta.

21 songs from the British invader who was deemed 'Britain's answer to Bob Dylan'.

The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations and ethnic groups of modern Southeast Asia.

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.