Folk & Traditional Music
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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
Mark SlobinCurrent price €15.51Original price €15.99This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond ...
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Austin Music Is a Scene Not a Sound
Michael CorcoranCurrent price €39.49Original price €49.99Michael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the l...
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Rescue Story: Faith, Freedom, and Finding My Way Home
Zach WilliamsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this is music star Zach Williams's bold and vulnerable...
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Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd edition, Revised and Expanded
Jim CullenCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50Pioneering the field of Springsteen scholarship when it first appeared in 1997, Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the definitive studies of Springs...
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Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival: The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox
Bruce LindsayCurrent price €31.53Original price €32.50Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival explores the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English traditional singers: ...
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Library of Aethers: Selected Lyrics 19942024
Alasdair RobertsCurrent price €17.95Original price €18.50From his earliest recordings in the 1990s, it was clear that Alasdair Roberts was not only a powerful performer, but also a profoundly original son...
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Oh, Didn''t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
David MenconiCurrent price €33.94Original price €34.99What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gos...
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Don''t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
Lucinda WilliamsCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Williamss memoir is as flinty, earthy and plain-spoken as her songs New York Times The often hilarious, occasionally harrowing Dont Tell Anybody ...
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Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads
Kitty LedbetterCurrent price €41.86Original price €52.99Broadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged in Springfield, Missouri, in the 1930s and thrived for half a century...
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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
Philip WatsonCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justi...
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No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny
Helen O'SheaCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50No Better Boy tells the story of a master of traditional Irish music: the legendary East Clare fiddler Paddy Canny, whose haunting music was remark...
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Song of the Far Isles
Nicholas BowlingCurrent price €11.47Original price €13.99From Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling comes a tale of adventure, myth and music to make your heart sing ... ...
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Nordic Fiddler: Traditional Fiddle Music from Around the World, Violin Part
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdCurrent price €19.39Original price €19.99Current price €19.39Original price €19.99Save 3% -
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Greil MarcusCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs The most interesting writer on Dyl...
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Eilean Uaine Thiriodh: Beatha, Orain agus Ceol Ethel NicChaluim
Margaret BennettCurrent price €16.98Original price €17.50Ethel NicChaluim Ann an 1942 chaidh Ethel NicChaluim a ghluasad a taigh dhilleachdan ann an Glaschu a dh''Eilean Thiriodh far an do dh''fhas i file...
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The Faith of Elvis
Billy StanleyCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Behind the glamour and the crowds. Beyond the movies and the records.Apart from all who knew him, wanted to know him, or just wanted to be near him...
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No Secrets: A Visual History Of Show Of Hands
Flood Gallery PublishingCurrent price €49.46Original price €50.99Current price €49.46Original price €50.99Save 3% -
Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
John CorbettCurrent price €32.97Original price €33.99Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations,...
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Dawn Songs
Peter RileyCurrent price €19.39Original price €19.99Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pi...
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UK Bhangra Pioneer since 1964: Balbir Bhujhangy
Balbir SinghCurrent price €15.51Original price €15.99The journey to the UK was a similar story for many Asians, especially for my father who came in the 1950s. The partition of India and Pakistan caus...
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Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900
Una McIlvennaCurrent price €97.19Original price €107.99Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song for...
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Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
Francesca T. RoysterCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.502023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Associa...
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Banjo Roots and Branches
University of Illinois PressCurrent price €33.94Original price €34.99The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches,...
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Greek Folk Tales
Aiora PressCurrent price €17.95Original price €18.50Greek folk tales descend from Aesop and Greek antiquity, as well as medieval storytelling in the pivotal south-east Mediterranean world that linked...
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Ardit Gjebreas Projekt Jon
Professor or Dr. Nicholas TochkaCurrent price €71.77Original price €73.99As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Ital...
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
Stephen WadeCurrent price €21.33Original price €21.99The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field rec...
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John Prine: In Spite of Himself
Eddie HuffmanCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs Angel from Montgomery, Sam Stone, and Paradise to the classic country music parody You Never E...
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Tango Dance and Music: A Choreomusical Exploration of Tango Argentino
Kendra StepputatCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99This book investigates choreomusical aspects of tango argentino in translocal practice, in particular its current manifestation in Europe. It looks...
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Music Theory in Ethnomusicology
Stephen BlumCurrent price €21.33Original price €21.99During the 1960s and 70s some ethnomusicologists formed relationships with music-makers and ritual specialists in an attempt to interpret how they ...
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Music Theory in Ethnomusicology
Stephen BlumCurrent price €21.33Original price €21.99During the 1960s and 70s some ethnomusicologists formed relationships with music-makers and ritual specialists in an attempt to interpret how they ...
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Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes
Carole PeggCurrent price €83.69Original price €89.99An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Peggs long-awaited par...
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World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power
Dale A. OlsenCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human ...
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My Guitar Is a Camera
Watt M. CaseyCurrent price €34.31Original price €43.99The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore ...
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When Drummers Were Women
Layne RedmondCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a ren...
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The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery
Wilfrid Laurier University PressCurrent price €77.34Original price €90.99The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohens staying power and his various positio...
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Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Andy WilkinsonCurrent price €40.73Original price €41.99Current price €40.73Original price €41.99Save 3% -
Dan Levenson: Old-Time Banjo and Fiddle Teacher, Performer and Storyteller
David BrooksCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose...
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Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs, 1962-69
Andy GillCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50In this book, Andy Gill assess the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaime...
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The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen: I''m Your Man
Orange Hippo!Current price €10.44Original price €10.99Without a doubt one of the most important, influential and acclaimed artists since the 1960s, Leonard Cohen is admired by fans, musicians and compo...
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Rising Son Volume 10: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie
Arlo GuthrieCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99One of Americas most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his best-selling alb...
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Systematic Musicology: Empirical and Theoretical Studies
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with ...
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Orain Ceilidh Teaghlaich: The Family Ceilidh Gaelic Song Collection
Anam CommunicationsCurrent price €16.48Original price €16.99Current price €16.48Original price €16.99Save 3% -
Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs, A
Shulu ChenCurrent price €163.92Original price €168.99This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in m...
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How to Play Mandolin in 14 Days: Daily Lessons for Absolute Beginners
Tristan ScrogginsCurrent price €17.95Original price €18.50Current price €17.95Original price €18.50Save 3% -
Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars: Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
Joshua TuckerCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean P...
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A Darker Shade of Pale. A Backdrop to Bob Dylan.
Wilfrid MellersCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Current price €24.69Original price €25.99Save 5%