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
Out of Print
Fiddling
for Norway : Revival and Identity (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Chris Goertzen
(Hardcover)
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)
Peter,
Paul & Mary: Deluxe Anthology
(Paperback)
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)
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)
100
Classic Folk & Bluegrass Songs... Words To Your Favorite Old Time Mountain
Music [LARGE PRINT]
by J. R. Miller (Spiral-bound)
Bound
for Glory
by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger
Paperback from New American Library
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The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and their Music
by Mockingbird Foundation
Book Description: This is the most comprehensive, accurate and
thought-provoking reference ever published on Phish - the quirky rock group
that rose from the college scene to become the single most popular touring
band in the U.S. today. Thousands of fans helped develop this book, contributing
detailed set lists, show reviews, song histories and more via the Internet.
Incorporating unreleased information plus fact-checking from official band
sources, this intimate guide also offers interviews with key Phish figures,
complete discographies, essays, photos and lots of fun Phish facts!
Paperback from Backbeat Books
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Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps
by Sylvia Woods
Listed under Harp
Pete
Seeger's Storytelling Book
by Pete Seeger
Book Description: Pete Seeger brings more than fifty years of
performing folksongs to the art of storytelling in this unique collection
of tales, ideas, and music. He and Paul Jacobs have put together fresh
versions of familiar tales; stories based on songs, family histories, and
America's past; as well as entirely new tales created just for this book.
Each section describes the origins of the stories and there are suggestions
for retelling and personalizing the tales to turn them into family favorites
for bedtime or family time. And in keeping with the theme that a story
never really ends-in fact gets better and better each time it is told-the
book concludes with some beginnings, story openers to get you going on
the path to creating your own storytelling tradition. Pete Seeger, a Grammy
Award winner as well as the recipient of the N.E.A. National Medal of Arts
and Kennedy Center Honors, has spent sixty years singing in peace rallies
and civil rights marches, at schools and camps, and for unions. His internationally
recognized songs include, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had
a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn." He lives in Beacon, New York, with his
wife of over fifty years, Toshi Seeger.
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x
9.30 x 6.29
Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition (September 7, )
ISBN: 015100370X
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
David Hajdu (pronounced HAY-doo), the prizewinning author of the magisterial
jazz biography Lush Life, now steam-cleans the legend of the lost folk
generation in Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez,
Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña.
What a ripping read! It's like an invitation to the wildest party Greenwich
Village ever saw. You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed
ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet
bewilderingly new music. Hajdu's sociomusical analysis is as scholarly
as (though less arty than) Greil Marcus's work; he deftly sketches the
sources and evolving styles of his ambitious, rather calculating subjects,
proving in the process that genius is not individual--it's rooted in a
time and place. Hajdu says Dylan heisted many early tunes (e.g., "Maggie's
Farm" from Pete Seeger's "Down on Penny's Farm"): "Dylan [told] a radio
interviewer that he felt as if his music had always existed and he just
wrote it down ... [in fact], much of his early work had existed as other
writers' melodies, chord structures, or thematic ideas." But Dylan and
company made it all their own, and Hajdu vividly evokes the scenes they
made.
Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something
amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there. The unknown Baez barefoot
in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal
overnight. The irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking
his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol. The "little
spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan
with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me." A stoned Fariña
advising Dylan to cynically hitch his wagon to Joan's rising star and "start
a whole new genre. Poetry set to music, but not chamber music or beatnik
jazz, man... poetry you can dance to."
The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers).
Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career,
but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humor and
verbal wit harmonized with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on
a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly
taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The
account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history
and uproarious soap opera. Hajdu's research is prodigious--even Fariña's
close chum Thomas Pynchon granted interviews--and his anecdotes are often
off-the-cuff funny: "[Rock manager Albert Grossman] was easy to deal with....
It wasn't till maybe two days after you would see Albert that you'd realize
your underwear had been stolen." Full disclosure: Hajdu was one of my long-ago
bosses at Entertainment Weekly, but that's certainly not why I heartily
endorse this book. It's scholarship with a human face, akin to "poetry
you can dance to." --Tim Appelo - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 328 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x
9.36 x 6.30
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux;
ISBN: 0374281998
Van Morrison would fall into the
folk music category
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 )
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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