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The North American Folk Music Revival

Author : Gillian Mitchell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0754657566
Pages : 222 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (754 downloads)

Download The North American Folk Music Revival in PDF Full Online Free by Gillian Mitchell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement.

The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1988-06-22
ISBN 10 : 0253112605
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (253 downloads)

Download The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World in PDF Full Online Free by Philip V. Bohlman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." -- Bruno Nettl "... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." -- Asian Folklore Studies "... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds... " -- Folklore Forum "... [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." -- Folk Music Journal Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.

Central European Folk Music

Author : Philip Vilas Bohlman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0815303041
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (815 downloads)

Download Central European Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Philip Vilas Bohlman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A History of European Folk Music

Author : Jan Ling
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 1878822772
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (878 downloads)

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Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan

Author : Lawrence J. Epstein
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2010-03-08
ISBN 10 : 9780786456017
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (456 downloads)

Download Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan in PDF Full Online Free by Lawrence J. Epstein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices to transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these guitar-toting idealists were often more tangled than the comparatively pure vision their art would suggest. Many singers produced work in the midst of personal failure and deeply troubled relationships, and under the influence of radical ideas and organizations. This provocative work examines both the long tradition of folk music in its American political context and the lives of those troubadours who wrote its most enduring songs.

Selling Folk Music

Author : Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9781626745841
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (745 downloads)

Download Selling Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Ronald D. Cohen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States via its commercial promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a colorful, complex history.

Folk Music

Author : Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 9780415971607
Pages : 253 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (971 downloads)

Download Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Ronald D. Cohen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional collectors; and the advent of professional performers in the twentieth century during the so-called "folk revival." The two sides of the folk tradition will be examined--both as popular and commercial expressions. Folk Music: The Basics serves as an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style. Throughout, sidebars offer studies of key folk performers, record labels, and related issues to place the general discussion in context.

So You Want to Sing Folk Music

Author : Valerie Mindel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-02-27
ISBN 10 : 9781442265622
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (265 downloads)

Download So You Want to Sing Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Valerie Mindel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many who love to sing are drawn to the immediacy and essential simplicity of the music we commonly call folk. Folk music, in fact, can serve as the perfect entry point for those just starting on their singing careers because of the ways in which it sidesteps the strictures of classical forms without giving up the fundamentals of professional singing techniques. In So You Want to Sing Folk Music, singer and writer Valerie Mindel demystifies this sprawling genre, looking at a variety of mainly traditional American musical styles as well as those of the folk revival that continues in various forms to this day. The aim is to help the fledgling singer better understand the scope of folk music and find his or her voice in the genre, looking at the “how” of creating a vocal sound that reflects a folk-based style. The book looks at specific repertories and ways of approaching them in terms of both working up material and performing it. It also looks at some of the realities of folk music in the twenty-first century that affect both amateurs and professionals. Additional chapters by Scott McCoy, Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards address universal questions of voice science and pedagogy, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Folk Music features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Old Jewish Folk Music

Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-01
ISBN 10 : 0815628684
Pages : 598 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (815 downloads)

Download Old Jewish Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Mark Slobin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It includes contextual responses to Jewish folk music, essays on musical influences, and notes and lyrics of nearly 300 folk songs.

Folk Music in America

Author : Phillips Barry
Publisher :
Release Date : 1939
ISBN 10 : IND:39000003245854
Pages : 226 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Yugoslav Folk Music

Author : Béla Bartók
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1978-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0873953835
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (873 downloads)

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Yugoslav Folk Music

Author : Bela Bartok
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9780791495896
Pages : 1981 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (495 downloads)

Download Yugoslav Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Bela Bartok and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 1981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume work is the most substantial and thorough analysis of Yugoslav folk music ever to be published in the English language. In addition to the editorially corrected reprint of the seventy-five Parry Collection transcriptions, first published in 1951, are the 3,449 facsimile reproductions from Bartóks collection of published and unpublished Yugoslav folk song materials. There are, too, instrumental transcriptions from the Parry collection and other sources, hitherto unpublished, and the prodigious Tabulation of Material, amassed from the data inherent in the source melodies, which appears in Vol. II also in facsimile form. Of equal importance is the reprint in Vol. I of the authors index of Serbo-Croatian refrains, which he originally placed in the third volume (Texts) of Rumanian Folk Music for comparative purposes. The editor, Dr. Benjamin Suchoff, provides introductory narratives in which the historical aspect and the chronology of the various manuscript versions are treated. With the assistance of the foremost present-day Yugoslav ethnomusicologists, he has added detailed chapters on related materials that supplement and update Bartóks findings in Yugoslav Folk Music. Dr. Suchoff has also constructed various tabulations, in accordance with Bartókian procedure followed elsewhere, as an aid to the reader. Of special interest will be the computer-derived lexicographical index of themes in Vol. II, which he prepared by extracting the incipits from more than 8,000 melody sections of different content-structure.

Folk Music of Britain – and Beyond

Author : Frank Howes
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
ISBN 10 : 9781317334583
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (334 downloads)

Download Folk Music of Britain – and Beyond in PDF Full Online Free by Frank Howes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969. Until the latter half of the nineteenth century, it was thought that England, alone among the European countries, and unlike Scotland and Ireland where collections of ballads and songs had already been published as early as the eighteenth century, had no important native tradition of music. The founding of the (English) Folk-Song Society in 1898, however, and the pioneering work of such collectors as Lucy Broadwood, the Reverend S. Baring-Gould and, later, Cecil Sharp uncovered a still flourishing folk culture. Since then interest in this subject has grown steadily, and the bibliography of publications of actual folk-songs and ballads is now huge. Frank Howes sets out a general and scholarly introduction, first examining in detail the history and origins of folk music and going on to show the nature and vast amount of the material, enforcing his arguments with a wealth of examples from around the world. His discussion of the differences of national idiom leads on to a comparison of British folk music with that of other European countries and America, in which he pays due attention to the Celtic and Norse traditions. Separate sections on balladry, carols, street cries, broadsides, sea shanties, nursery rhymes and instruments illustrate both the variety of folk music and the extent to which it permeates our national heritage.

Exploring American Folk Music

Author : Kip Lornell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-05-29
ISBN 10 : 9781617032646
Pages : 386 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (32 downloads)

Download Exploring American Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Kip Lornell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prev. ed. published under title: Introducing American folk music.

Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology

Author : Anna Hoefnagels
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-19
ISBN 10 : 9781527566385
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (566 downloads)

Download Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology in PDF Full Online Free by Anna Hoefnagels and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present features the proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société Canadienne pour les Traditions Musicales (formerly the Canadian Folk Music Society / La Société canadienne de musique folklorique) that took place in November, 2006 in Ottawa at Carleton University and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. This publication showcases the diversity of music research currently being conducted by folk and traditional music specialists, ethnomusicologists, and practicing musicians in Canada. The papers are organized in five sections according to common themes in contemporary research in ethnomusicology and folk music studies, and each section is preceded by a short introduction which highlights the section’s theme(s) as well as the individual papers. Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present confirms the rich history of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, a history that comprises enormous changes in scholarly research, musical practice, emergent technologies, changes in doing fieldwork, and shifting identity boundaries over the past fifty years. This volume is intended as a contribution to published literature on ethnomusicological and folklore research in Canada, creating a new resource of historical, contemporary, and scholarly relevance that will appeal to academics and music enthusiasts alike. "Canadian ethnomusicologists' expertise in the realm of First Nations musics, and Anglo, Celtic and French folksong repertories is already well established. This volume shows us the breadth of cultural territory with which 21st-century Canadian scholars of music and scholars of Canadian musics are now engaged, as well as their theoretical and methodological sophistication. " —Kati Szego, School of Music, Memorial University

The Denver Folk Music Tradition

Author : Paul Malkoski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-11
ISBN 10 : 9781614233671
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (233 downloads)

Download The Denver Folk Music Tradition in PDF Full Online Free by Paul Malkoski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association. These two organizations have persevered to sustain a lasting folk legacy in the Mile High City. This is the story of how the music and the people who love and live it shaped a unique, influential tradition. Join local historian and musician Paul Malkoski on a tour through more than fifty years of Denver's proud folk music scene.

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Author : Ross Hair
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
ISBN 10 : 9781317123583
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (123 downloads)

Download Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music in PDF Full Online Free by Ross Hair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclectic and idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, dance music, gospel, and numerous other performances less easy to classify. Where previous collections of folk music, both printed and recorded, had privileged field recordings and oral transmission, Smith purposefully shaped his collection from previously released commercial records, pointedly blurring established racial boundaries in his selection and organisation of performances. Indeed, more than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings, the Anthology was itself a kind of performance on the part of its creator. Over the six decades of its existence, however, it has continued to exert considerable influence on generations of musicians, artists, and writers. It has been credited with inspiring the North American folk revival—"The Anthology was our bible", asserted Dave Van Ronk in 1991, "We all knew every word of every song on it"—and with profoundly influencing Bob Dylan. After its 1997 release on CD by Smithsonian Folkways, it came to be closely associated with the so-called Americana and Alt-Country movements of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Following its sixtieth birthday, and now available as a digital download and rereleased on vinyl, it is once again a prominent icon in numerous musical currents and popular culture more generally. This is the first book devoted to such a vital piece of the large and complex story of American music and its enduring value in American life. Reflecting the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of Smith’s original project, this collection contains a variety of new perspectives on all aspects of the Anthology.