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  • House in Bali

    by Colin McPhee ...
    This is a book about passion, obsession and discovery in an amazing land, but also about the voyage of a highly talented composer and writer.A House in Bali remains one of the most remarkable books ever written about the fabled island of Bali. This classic book tells the story of Balinese culture through a history of Balinese music.First published in 1947, it tells the story of the writer and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bound for Glory

    by Woody Guthrie ...
    First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Japanese Music & Musical Instruments

    This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations:The history of Japanese musicConstruction of the instrumentsAnalysis of the music itself.The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Swamp Pop

    Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

    $35.99 USD

  • Balinese Music

    This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context. The instruments and basic principles underlying the gamelan are introduced, thus providing listeners with the means to better appreciate the music. Scores of beautiful color photographs, a discography, and a brief guide to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Age Of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition

    1776-1815

    by Terry Moylan ...
    The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition is a definitive gathering of songs, poems and tunes composed between the 1776 American Revolution and Napoleon’s exile and death in 1821 and beyond dramatically conveying how the seismic events of those years inspired literary and musical effort across succeeding generations in Ireland. The material is drawn from tradition and from print and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American History in Song

    Lyrics from 1900 to 1945

    Songwriters dramatically captured the details of how Americans lived, thought and changed in the first half of the twentieth century. This book examines 1033 songs about WWI and WWII wars, presidents, Womens Suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, immigration, minority stereotypes, new modes of transportation, inventions, and the changing roles of men and women.America invited immigrants and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bob Gibson

    I Come for to Sing

    Inspired by a meeting with Pete Seeger, a young Bob Gibson left behind a successful job to collect folk songs. His arrangements, songwriting, and musical innovations took his audiences by storm, lighting the fire that led to the full-blown folk-music revival of the late 1950s. He introduced Joan Baez in 1959, Judy Collins in 1960, and his songs have been recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Folk Songs

    Musical Genres and History

    "Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Mountain of the Women

    Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour

    by Liam Clancy ...
    In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and Are You Somebody?, Liam Clancy relates his life’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fiddling Way Out Yonder

    The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

    From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's playing and teaching all three have created a vital and enduring legacy. Wine has been ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Disenchanting Les Bons Temps

    Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    The expression laissez les bons temps rouler—"let the good times roll"—conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana’s vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns, descendants of French settlers exiled from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth century, this sense of celebration has always been mixed with sorrow. By focusing on Cajun music and dance ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Seasons of Poetry

    A book of verse so plain and clearTo ease the mind and please the ear.So easy to read, no burdensome lines.No lingering stories of trouble times.This poetry is written in a style different from any I have seen before. Each poem is distinctly different from others within the book. Collectively they are entirely different from any book of poetry it has been my pleasure to read. I believe the poems ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dan Ge Performance

    Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire

    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    “An excellent study of both the visible and invisible elements that constitute the Ge performance of the Dan People of western Côte d’Ivoire.” —The World of MusicGe, formerly translated as “mask” or “masquerade,” appears among the Dan people of Côte d’Ivoire as a dancing and musical embodiment of their social ideals and religious beliefs. In Dan Ge Performance, Daniel B. Reed sets out to discover ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mandolin Scale Finder

    Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,300 Mandolin Chords

    by Chad Johnson ...
    (Fretted). Presents scale diagrams for the most often-used mandolin scales and modes in an orderly and easily accessible fashion. Use this book as a reference guide or as the foundation for creating an in-depth practice routine. Includes multiple patterns for each scale, a lesson on scale construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making the Great Book of Songs

    Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Mandolin Scale Finder (Music Instruction)

    Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,300 Mandolin Chords 6 inch. x 9 inch. Edition

    by Chad Johnson ...
    (Fretted). Presents scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes in an orderly and easily accessible fashion. Use this book as a reference guide or as the foundation for creating an in-depth practice routine. Includes multiple patterns for each scale, a lesson on scale construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hal Leonard Ukulele Chord Finder (Music Instruction)

    Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,000 Ukulele Chords

    (Fretted). Learn to play chords on the ukulele with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Ukulele Chord Finder contains more than a thousand chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the ukulele neck! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Highway 61 Revisited

    The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music

    by Gene Santoro ...
    What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Dylan Judas 1966 Like The Night (Revisited 2)

    The Road To The Manchester Free Trade Hall

    by CP Lee ...
    Documenting the most legendary concert and tour in rock history, Like The Night (Revisited), a riveting eyewitness account of Dylan's pivotal 1966 show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, was one of the essential Dylan books of the millennia. It documented the controversial time when Dylan turned his back on folk music in favour of rock 'n' roll, which culminated at the Manchester show where a fan ... Read more

    $7.23 USD

  • Performing Russia

    Folk Revival and Russian Identity

    by Laura Olson ...
    This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cuban Counterpoints

    The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

    While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Waltz the Hall

    The American Play Party

    What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle to be the devil's instrument? The American play party was the fundamentalist's answer. Here the singing was a cappella, the dancers followed prescribed steps, and arm and elbow swings would be the only touching. The play party was a popular form of American folk entertainment ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice Of Protest

    Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice Of Protest is the definitive story of American folk music, focussing on how a minority music genre suddenly became the emergent voice of a generation at the end of the Eisenhower years.From Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" in 1958 to Bob Dylan's electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, folk music wove itself from American culture and grew to define ... Read more

    $10.99 USD