Books on Folk Music

 

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
by Mark Slobin (Editor), Klezmer Research Conference 1996 Wesleyan univers
(Paperback)

American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
by Alec Wilder, et al
(Hardcover - October 1990)

Folk Dance Music of Norway: 26 Traditional Tunes Arranged for 1-3 Violins Fiddles, or Other"C" instruments

Folk Dance Music of Denmark: 32 Traditional Tunes Arranged for 1-3 Violins, Fiddles, or other "C" Instruments

Fiddling for Norway : Revival and Identity (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Chris Goertzen (Hardcover - December 1997) 

This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
by Elizabeth Partridge
Listed under Woody Guthrie

Notes from the Road
by Ellis Paul
(Hardcover - May 2002)

Peter, Paul & Mary: Deluxe Anthology
(Paperback - January 2001)

Cash: The Autobiography
by Johnny Cash
Listed under Johnny Cash

De Colores and Other Latinamerican Folk Songs for Children
by Joseluis Orozco, Elisa Kleven (Illustrator)
(Library Binding - March 2001)

Bob Gibson : I Come for to Sing: The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend
by Bob Gibson, Carole Bender, Allan Shaw (Preface), Peter Yarrow (Epilogue) 

Chronicles
by Bob Dylan
Listed under Bob Dylan

The Folksong Fake Book: A Collection of over 1000 Folksongs from Around the World
by Hal Leonard (Editor)
(Plastic Comb - January 2001)
 

Bound for Glory (Penguin Modern Classics) by Woody Guthrie Paperback from Penguin Books Ltd Book Published: 24 June, 2004

Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco by Jason Webster Paperback from Black Swan Book Published: 01 January, 2004 Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp Paperback from HarperCollins Book Published: 31 January, 2002 Availability: usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days.

One Voice: My Life in Song by Christy Moore Paperback from Coronet Books Book Published: 01 October, 2003 Availability: usually dispatched within 3 to 5 weeks.

Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story by Ian Halperin Paperback from Mainstream Publishing Book Published: October, 2003 Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours.

Song of the Outcasts: An Introduction to Flamenco by Robin Totton Paperback from Amadeus Press Book Published: May, 2003 Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours.

The Oxford Book of English Madrigals by Philip Ledger Paperback from Oxford University Press Book Published: 09 November, 1978 Availability: usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days.

Carols for Choirs: Bk. 1 by R. Jacques, D. Willcocks Paperback from Oxford University Press Availability: usually dispatched within 8 to 9 days.

Go Where You Wanna Go: The Oral History of "The Mamas and the Papas" by Matthew Greenwald Hardcover from Cooper Square Press Book Published: June, 2002 Availability: usually dispatched within 8 days.

Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light - The Definitive Biography by Karen O'Brien Paperback from Virgin Books Book Published: 05 September, 2002

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
by Pete Seeger (Author), Paul Dubois Jacobs (Author) 

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
by David Hajdu
Hardcover: 328 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 9.36 x 6.30 
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; (June 2001) 
ISBN: 0374281998 

When We Were Good : The Folk Revival
by Robert Cantwell
Paperback: 432 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.16 x 9.19 x 6.09 
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Reprint edition (April 1997) 
ISBN: 0674951336 

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
by Tim McGraw
Listed under Country

How Can I Keep from Singing : Pete Seeger
by David King Dunaway
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