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The Books of American negro spirituals
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James Weldon Johnson,Lawrence Brown |
HISTORICAL TEXTS PLUS 2 SONGBOOKS: THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO SPIRITUALS & THE SECOND BOOK OF NEGRO SPIRITUALS IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM |
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Songs for the spirit
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Barley Norton |
"Songs for the Spirits is the first in-depth study of the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a large pantheon of indigenous spiri… |
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Long steel rail
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Norm Cohen |
xx, 710 pages : 27 cm |
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The Honey Gatherers: Travels with The Bauls
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Mimlu Sen |
One woman's extraordinary adventure into the rural heart of India, uncovering a fascinating, hidden world.Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance b… |
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The story of folk music
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Melvin Berger |
Examines the evolution of American folk music due to the influences of politics, different personalities, and musical instruments. |
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From sea to shining sea
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Molly Bang,Amy L. Cohn |
A compilation of more than 140 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists. |
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The incompleat folksinger
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Pete Seeger |
The well-known folk singer explores the appeal, traditions, significance and performers of folk music from America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and discusses aspects of the modern folk revival. |
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Stolen hearts
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Jane Tesh |
Grieving over his daughter's death and kicked out by his second wife, David starts a private investigation company, moves in with psychic friend Camden, and tackles two cases that may be linked by a … |
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American roots music
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Holly George-Warren,Robert Santelli |
"American roots music - encompassing blues, country & western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other uniquely American genres of folk music - originated and was nurtured in small … |
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Verandah music
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Graham Seal |
160 p. : 28 cm. + |
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They came singing
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Karen Arlen,Margaret Batt,Nancie Kester,Mary Ann Benson |
Collection of over sixty traditional songs from California's history. Begins with songs of Native California tribes and continues through European exploration, Spanish and Mexican rule, U.S. explorat… |
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Mary Travers
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Mary Travers |
"A Woman's Words, is a frank, insightful account of the life of legendary folksinger Mary Travers of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, told in her own words in essays, opinion columns, speeches, stage m… |
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Dylan goes electric!
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Elijah Wald |
One of the music world's preeminent critics takes a fresh look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary in 1965. |
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Wolfe Tones Phenomenon
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Alex Fell |
190 pages : 21 cm |
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Making people's music
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Peter David Goldsmith |
"As the founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. By his death in … |
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Cantares de la memoria
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René Villanueva |
"Popular history of the group Los Folkloristas from its beginnings in 1966 to the present, told in the first person by one of the group's members, with nostalgic reflections on the leftist folk music… |
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Southern music/American music
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Bill C. Malone |
"Southern Music/American Music is the first book to investigate the influence of the South on American music and the many popular forms that emerged from it. In this substantially revised edition, Bi… |
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Passing the music down
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Sarah Sullivan |
A boy and his family befriend a country fiddler, who teaches the boy all about playing the old tunes, which the boy promises to help keep alive. Inspired by Melvin Wine and Jake Krack. |
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Elizabeth's song
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Michael Wenberg |
A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, "Freight Train." Includes a brief summary of her lif… |
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Voices of a people
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Ruth Rubin |
"A collection of song texts in Yiddish and English, as well as a selection of tunes Rubin transcribed, this volume brings the Jews' ancient, itinerant culture alive through children's songs, dancing … |
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