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And a Voice to Sing with: A Memoir by Joan Baez Publisher Comments • The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez’s perspective, but supported by a rich performance... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.00 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (Folklore Studies in Multicultural World) by Marion S. Jacobson Publisher Comments No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. Squeeze This! is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook by Peter Blood Publisher Comments Lyrics and guitar chords for nearly 1,200 songs are arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format in this comprehensive collection. Folk revival favorites; Broadway show tunes; Beatles' songs; hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards; songs about peace... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Spiral
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina by David Hajdu Publisher Comments When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a youth idol with an acid wit and a barbwire throat; and Greenwich Village, where he first made... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller Publisher Comments A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte Publisher Comments Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Everybody Says Freedom (09 Edition) by Seeger Publisher Comments In words, photographs, and music, Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser tell the story of the civil rights movement, building their narrative around the accounts of people involved and the songs that inspired their struggle. It documents the sit-ins, freedom rides,... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich Publisher Comments Part travelogue, part musical history, Amanda Petrusich's It Still Moves outlines the sounds of the new, weird America--honoring the rich traditions of gospel, blues, country, folk, and rock that feed it while simultaneously exploring the American... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music by Judy Collins Publisher Comments A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History) by David King Dunaway Publisher Comments Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country with CD (Audio) by R. Crumb Publisher Comments Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats," and "Pioneers of Country Music" trading card sets--created in the early to- mid-1980s--are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu Publisher Comments Discusses how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Farina gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Down to the River: Portraits of Iowa Musicians by Sandra Louise Dyas Publisher Comments Sixty extraordinary portrait photographs, accompanied by a musical CD containing eighteen tracks by some of Iowa's finest musicians and songwriters, capture Iowa's vibrant, live music scene in a study of such artists as Dave Moore, Bo Ramsey, David Zollo,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Masters of Traditional Arts 2 Volumes by Alan Govenar Publisher Comments This fascinating two volume biographical dictionary by Alan Govenar chronicles the lives of America's most significant folk artists—people dedicated to working in time-honored art forms including, music, dance, crafts, and spoken word traditions... (read more) List Price $185.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Poets Project #30: Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs by Stephen Foster Publisher Comments Stephen Foster (1826-1864) is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including Oh Susanna, Old Folks at Home (Way down upon the Swanee River...), and My Old Kentucky Home, and his parlor ballads, such as Jeanie with the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands (Music in American Life) by Jonathan C David Publisher Comments A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexamined Together Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Old-Time Music and Dance by John Bealle Publisher Comments In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer by Woody Guthrie Publisher Comments First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by a man who saw it all.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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They Heard Georgia Singing by Zell Miller Publisher Comments Georgia's music history is diverse in that it covers gospel singer Thomas Dorsey, soul singer James Brown, opera singer Jessye Norman, country singer Alan Jackson, folk singer Hedy West and symphony and choral conductors Robert Shaw and Yoel Levi. They... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Positively 4th St. 10th Anniversary by David Hajdu Publisher Comments Tenth Anniversary EditionThe story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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