Folk & Traditional Music

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth global study of the role played in musical history by song collectors. This is the first in-depth ...

Max Baca is one of the foremost artists of Tex-Mex music, the infectious dance music sweeping through the Texas-Mexico borderlands since the 1940s....

From cradle to great, the comprehensive real story of Bill Monroe The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry...

Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songw...

The first major biography of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in American popular music, drawing on dozens of exclusive interv...

A backstage audition led Mark Hembree into a five-year stint (19791984) as the bassist for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Hembrees journey included...

Echo songs, in which a leader sings a phrase and the group repeats it, are some of the most fun and easy-to-learn songs for kids! These songs will ...

Favorite American folk songs, filled with magic, wonder, and make-believe, come to life for todays children with The Book of Childrens Songtales. E...

Whether sung around a campfire, in a classroom, or on a family road trip, call and response songs, in which a leader sings a phrase and a group sin...

From The Wheels on the Bus to Eensy Weensy Spider, these classic songs combine movement and music to create a high-energy, fun experience for child...

Arlo Guthrie, the son of Americas legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the r...

Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jennys old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. a...

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known thr...

The song John Henry, perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying w...

Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy...

In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark Hotel Mariachi, where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza...