Folk & Traditional Music

This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose...

Without a doubt one of the most important, influential and acclaimed artists since the 1960s, Leonard Cohen is admired by fans, musicians and compo...

This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with ...

This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in m...

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' ...

From Aristotle to Heidegger, philosophers distinguished two orders of time, before, after and past, present, future, presenting them in a wide rang...

Since World War I, the self-contained communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal...

Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since th...

This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularl...

This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through...

Ephemeral by nature, the concert setlist is a rich, if underexplored, text for scholarly research. How an artist curates a show is a significant as...

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Benga...