Folk & Traditional Music

This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael ...

...revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series Wayfaring Stranger...in these pages revisit people and plac...

Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk regi...

You may think you know this carol, but the breathtaking talent of Laurel Long brings it to life as never before. Readers will pore over every page,...

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music for...

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many...

In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué and convivial songs and ballads to...

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Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged and sold to a ...

Sonic ethnography makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of repre...

Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and s...