Folk & Traditional Music

This book presents aspects of the oral culture of Romanians, and some traditional musical instruments, as yet unknown on a global level. The book h...

for solo viola Conceived as a set, these eight songs are drawn from several Chinese regions (Shaanbei, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Hunan, a...

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissmans A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussi...

From one of the most lauded scholars in ethnomusicology comes this enlightening and highly personal narrative on the evolution and current state of...

Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of...

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded ...

This unique edited volume offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of globa...

Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & MusicHonorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition Popular music...

When he was in graduate school in the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy began documenting the roots music styles of largely forgotten southern musicians in...

Fields of Grace spans three worlds of sacred expression in one rich soundscape: the old style of Irish Sean-nós, medieval Gregorian chant, and more...

Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral tra...

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant i...

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with...

When we talk about roots music, what do we mean and what is at stake? Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt delves into these questions in an introducto...

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including litt...

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...