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Folk Music: The Basics

Author : Ronald Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136088988

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Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional collectors; and the advent of professional performers in the twentieth century during the so-called "folk revival." The two sides of the folk tradition will be examined--both as popular and commercial expressions. Folk Music: The Basics serves as an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style. Throughout, sidebars offer studies of key folk performers, record labels, and related issues to place the general discussion in context.

Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199753086

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This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk musicians themselves, as well as corporations, non-governmental organizations, and governments have made full use of the available resources, older and newer strategies, and multiple agendas that keep the folk music process alive in an increasingly interconnected, yet still localized world.

The Folk Music Sourcebook

Author : Larry Sandberg,Dick Weissman
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015023338851

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The Folk Music Sourcebook by Larry Sandberg,Dick Weissman Pdf

This revised and updated book is a guide for the listener, collector, singer, player and devotee of folk music. It covers music from string band to bluegrass, Canadian, Creole, Zydeco, jug bands, ragtime and the many kinds of blues. The book evaluates, reviews and recommends on such subjects as where to buy records and instruments and places where folk music flourishes.

Discovering Folk Music

Author : Stephanie P. Ledgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216075066

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From Ani DiFranco to Bob Dylan to Woodie Guthrie, American folk music comprises a truly diverse and rich tradition—one that's almost impossible to define in broad terms. This book explains why folk music is still highly relevant in the digital age. From indigenous music to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing "This Land Is Your Land" side-by-side at the pre-inaugural concert for our first African American president, folk music has been at the center of America's history. Thomas Jefferson wooed his bride-to-be with fiddle playing. Stephen Foster captured the mood of our country in transition. The Carter Family adapted music from across the pond to Appalachia. Paul Robeson carried folk music of many lands to the world stage. Woody Guthrie's dust bowl ballads spoke to the common man, while Sixties protest music put folk on the map, following the Kingston Trio's hit, "Tom Dooley." Folk music has evolved with America's changing landscape, celebrating its multi-cultural traditions. From Irish step dancers to rap, parlor songs to Dixieland, blues to classical, Discovering Folk Music presents the genre as surprisingly diverse, every bit the product of our national melting pot. Demonstrating continuing relevance of folk music in our everyday lives, the book spotlights an amazing array of personalities, with special emphasis on the folk revival era when Dylan, Baez, Odetta, and Peter, Paul and Mary sang out. These and others influenced such contemporary performers as Shawn Colvin and Ani DiFranco. Those on today's "fringes of folk" scene continue to look to these deep roots while embracing alternative sounds. Included are interviews with such legendary artists as Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, and Jean Ritchie. Nora Guthrie, Woody's daughter, also weighs in. Discovering Folk Music is a ground-breaking look at 21st-century folk music in our rapidly changing digital world, family friendly while ripe for rediscovery by the Woodstock generation.

The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253112605

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"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." -- Bruno Nettl "... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." -- Asian Folklore Studies "... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds... " -- Folklore Forum "... [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." -- Folk Music Journal Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.

Folk Music in the United States

Author : Bruno Nettl
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814337578

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Folk Music in the United States gives readers a broad overview of many kinds of folk music found in this country, from the songs of rural Appalachia an d New England through the indigenous music of the American Indians and the African music brought by slaves, to the folk songs of European minorities. It traces the way folk music lives in the modern city, in the academic world, and in the contemporary music of American composers. The book introduces readers to the study of folk music as a kind of music and as an aspect of human culture. It uses music as an index to understanding American culture while it introduces readers to various concepts in the field of ethnomusicology.

The Hal Leonard Mandolin Fake Book

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495088445

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The Hal Leonard Mandolin Fake Book by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Mandolin). Nearly bigger than your mandolin, this collection packs 300 songs into one handy songbook! Get melody, lyrics, chords & chord diagrams for these tunes: The A Team * Against the Wind * As Time Goes By * Bad, Bad Leroy Brown * Can't Take My Eyes off of You * Crazy * Daydream Believer * Edelweiss * Fields of Gold * The Gambler * Going to California * Happy Together * Hey, Soul Sister * Ho Hey * I Shot the Sheriff * I'm Yours * Island in the Sun * King of the Road * Kokomo * Layla * Losing My Religion * Maggie May * Moondance * No Woman No Cry * Over the Rainbow * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Redemption Song * Ripple * Santeria * Shenandoah * The Times They Are A-Changin' * Toes * Unchained Melody * We Shall Overcome * Wildwood Flower * Wonderwall * You Are My Sunshine * Your Mama Don't Dance * and many more.

Romancing the Folk

Author : Benjamin Filene
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 080784862X

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In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo

Folk Song in England

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309733

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In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.

The Bluegrass Songbook

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781480341777

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The Bluegrass Songbook by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A comprehensive collection of nearly 50 bluegrass standards, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar. Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett * Blue Ridge Cabin Home * Doin' My Time * Foggy Mountaintop * Footprints in the Snow * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * I'll Fly Away * In the Pines * Keep on the Sunny Side * Midnight Moonlight * Molly and Ten Brooks * Old Home Place * Rocky Top * Salty Dog Blues * Turn Your Radio On * Wabash Cannonball * The Wreck of the Old '97 * and more.

The North American Folk Music Revival

Author : Gillian Mitchell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754657566

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This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement.

Central European Folk Music

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815303041

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Folk Music of Kenya

Author : George W. Senoga-Zake
Publisher : Uzima Publishing House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN : 9966855025

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Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music

Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317333913

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Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music by Norm Cohen Pdf

Filling a gap in the sound recordings of traditional Anglo-American folk music this volume covers both vocal and instrumental material from the 1920s to the 1990s. The listings have also been limited to performers native to the tradition rather than "revival" performers. The album selection is grouped into field recordings and commercial (pre-1942) recordings, with subdivisions into individual recordings or anthologies. The discography not only reflects its author’s in-depth knowledge of Anglo-American folk music’s historical development but charts a valuable step forward in the evaluation, as well as select lissting, of available sound recordings.

Always a Song

Author : Ellen Harper,Sam Barry
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781797201580

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Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more. • Harper takes readers on an intimate journey through the folk music revival. • The book spans a transformational time in music, history, and American culture. • Covers historical events from the love-ins, women's rights protests, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the popularization of the sitar and the ukulele. • Includes full-color photo insert. "Growing up, an endless stream of musicians and artists came from across the country to my family's music store. Bess Lomax Hawes, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee—all the singers, organizers, guitar and banjo pickers and players, songwriters, painters, dancers, their husbands, wives, and children—we were all in it together. And we believed singing could change the world."—Ellen Harper Music lovers and history buffs will enjoy this rare invitation into a world of stories and song that inspired folk music today. • A must-read for lovers of music, history, and those nostalgic for the acoustic echo of the original folk music that influenced a generation • Harper's parents opened the legendary Folk Music Center in Claremont, California, as well as the revered folk music venue The Golden Ring. • A perfect book for people who are obsessed with folk music, all things 1960s, learning about musical movements, or California history • Great for those who loved Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns; and Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller.