Folk & Traditional Music

The untold story of Chicagos pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.   Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched m...

'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more uniq...

'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's mos...

Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of...

Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national h...

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else...

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a lively, engaging, and often wise (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offe...

Michael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the l...

From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this is music star Zach Williams's bold and vulnerable...

Pioneering the field of Springsteen scholarship when it first appeared in 1997, Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the definitive studies of Springs...