Folk & Traditional Music

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 Leo Janáek. It codifies his compositional style, first through a...

While Dylan is not new as an academic subject, this collections focus (on live performance) provides a new window or way to gaze and understand D...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The story of the Minneapolis musicians who were unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album When Bob D...

In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centrepiece of carn...

The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is...

***WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION AWARD***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edward...

I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter t...

Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeEngland was once dubbed 'the land without music', but in the early twentieth century collectors and ent...

The artists impact on country music and how his death changed the genre A beloved member of the country music community, David Stringbean Akeman fo...