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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...
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Bound for Glory (83 Edition)
by Woody Guthrie Synopsis Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over--not by jet or motorcycle, but by box-car, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national...
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They Heard Georgia Singing
by Zell Miller Synopsis 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...
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country with CD (Audio)
by R Crumb Publisher Comments Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid...
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78 Blues: Folksongs and Records in the American South (American Made Music)
by John Minton Publisher Comments When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs...
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Beat Goes on an Introduction To Popular Music
by Michael Campbell Publisher Comments This refreshingly current music appreciation text provides a scholarly examination of popular music's roots and history. The organization and the context of the survey reflect its introductory intent and aids the student in gaining an increased awareness...
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Rose and Briar : Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (05 Edition)
by Sean Wilentz Publisher Comments THE BALLAD has been part of American history since before the country had a name. In this book, Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus have assembled an astonishing group of writers and artists--Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons...
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African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions (Publications of the American Folklore Society)
by Cecelia Conway Book News Annotation Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont, Conway (English, Appalachian State U.) reveals the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing, and the accompanying dance...
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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 The 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 of the 1960s When Bob...
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Conjunto
by John Dyer Publisher Comments Conjunto has been called Chicano roots music. Born when South Texas Tejanos adopted the button accordion from German settlers in the 1800s, this vibrant folk music mixes the accordion, bajo sexto guitar, bass, and drums to play lively, danceable versions...
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To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late Great Townes Van Zandt
by John Kruth Publisher Comments At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as “Pancho & Lefty” and “If I Needed You.” Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hounded by alcoholism and an...
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Bluegrass Breakdown : the Making of the Old Southern Sound (84 Edition)
by Robert Cantwell About the Author Robert Cantwell has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina. Bluegrass Breakdown is his first book, and it won the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award and the Ambassador of Honor Book...
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Alan Lomax; Selected Writings, 1934-1997
by Ronald Cohen Synopsis Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection reintroduces...
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Bluegrass
by Neil V. Rosenberg Synopsis A history of bluegrass. Winner of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year and of the International Bluegrass Music Association Certificate of Merit....
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Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
by Scott Gac Synopsis In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America's most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into...
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From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music
by Stephanie Ledgin Publisher Comments Bluegrass, folk, blues, Cajun, Celtic, and country music--these traditional genres have recently fostered a popular explosion of music and dance festivals throughout the United States. From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music is a photo...
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The Golden Encyclopedia of Folk Music
by Hal Leoneard Synopsis A giant collection of more than 180 classic folk songs including songs of true love, unrequited and false love, the domestic scene, spirituals, ramblers and gamblers, workers, songs of the west, jolly reunions, international songs and singing the blues....
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Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass (Music in American Life)
by Stephanie P Ledgin Synopsis With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P....
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Folk Music U.S.A.: The Changing Voice of Protest
by Ronald D. Lankford Synopsis This definitive story of American folk music focuses 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...
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Texas Zydeco
by Charles Roger Wood Publisher Comments To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music...
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