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John Denver

John Denver

Guitar Chord Songbook

Author: Cherry Lane Music

(Guitar Chord Songbook). A little book featuring a big selection of 50 Denver favorites, presented with just the lyrics and chords: all you need to strum and sing away! Songs include: Annie's Song * Autograph * Back Home ...
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Recording Culture

Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains

Author: Christopher A. Scales

Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers, yet until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study of Native American expressive cultures. Recording ...
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The Great Folk Discography: v. 2

The Great Folk Discography: v. 2

The Next Generation

Author: Martin C. Strong

Martin Strong has earned his reputation as a music writer the hard way - by compiling massive, detailed tomes that brim with sharp, insightful observations. The Great Folk Discography trilogy is an essential purchase for ...
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Folk Songs of Florida

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Song of the North Country

Song of the North Country

A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan

Author: David Pichaske

This is a remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character. In the 1966 "Playboy" interview, Dylan said, 'I'm ...
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Electric Folk

Electric Folk

The Changing Face of English Traditional Music

Author: Britta Sweers

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "electric folk" or "British folk rock." ...
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A Passion for Polka

Old-time Ethnic Music in America

Author: Victor Greene

Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Itali ...
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Stratification of Musical Rhythm

Author: Maury Yeston

There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through its graphic notation, or in terms of metrical feet, as if it were poetry. Maury Yeston treats rhyt ...
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Wayward Daughter

An Official Biography of Eliza Carthy

Author: Sophie Parkes

Eliza Carthy is the daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. The clan has often been rightly described as folk's royal family. Martin was in Steeleye Span, Albion Dance band and the Watersons as well as holding down ...
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Teton Sioux Music and Culture

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Which Side are You On?

Which Side are You On?

An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America

Author: Dick Weissman

In 1932 Florence Reece, the wife of a Kentucky coal miner, wrote one of the classic topical songs preserved in the folk musical revival. The song, Which Side Are You On?, contrasts the lot of the working class and the bo ...
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Compleat Klezmer

Compleat Klezmer

Author: Henry Sapoznik

(Tara Books). This book is the definitive anthology by the world's foremost authority on klezmer music. Features an in-depth musical analysis, discography, 33 annotated melodies, historical background, annotations, resou ...
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Folk Music USA

Folk Music USA

The Changing Voice of Protest

Author: Ronald D. Lankford

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. The book shows how the social issues of early rura ...
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Joni Mitchell Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell Court and Spark

Author: Sean Nelson

"Court and Spark" is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech ...
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The Best of Jack Pine Style

The Best of Jack Pine Style

Author: Andresen Guitar Group

Robert Andresen (1937-95) lived in the Duluth-Superior area and was a leading force in documenting, performing, and promoting old-time music in the Upper Midwest. Born into a musical family of Norwegian immigrants, he ...

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Alabama Folk Lyric

Author: Browne

Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spre ...

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Squeeze This!

Squeeze This!

A Cultural History of the Accordion in America

Author: Marion S. Jacobson

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 ...
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

My Life in Music

Author: Judy Collins

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 de ...
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The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982

Author: George Albert & Frank Hoffmann

Similar in format to the authors' Cash Box Singles Charts, this authorized compilation makes available the data contained in Cash Box's country music singles (78 rpm and 45 rpm) charts over a 25-year period. This informa ...
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The Unbroken Circle

Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal

Author: Fred Metting

This text explores the influences of musicians, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. Once musical partners, they both went on to have their own careers. Cooder was influenced by rag-time blues, bottleneck gospel blues, Norteno music ...
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