Music: Styles & Genres

One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed ...

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art...

Acclaimed Scottish singer Jean Redpath (19372014) is best remembered for her impressive repertoire of ancient ballads, Robert Burns songs, and cont...

An intimate and thorough account of the life and times of Brenda Wootton, Cornwall''s first lady of song. From the late 1960s for over 20 years, Br...

A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship with the past. Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up The ballad genre, and its...

This book is an attempt to place the Wolfe Tones, arguably Ireland''s most popular and internationally successful folk and ballad band, in its poli...

When singer-songwriter Alan Hull joined the group Brethren in 1969, and they were renamed Lindisfarne shortly afterwards, nobody could have foresee...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller**Featuring an exclusive new chapter*On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experi...

Sandy Bells, an assuming little bar in central Edinburgh is world famous for its folk music and many famous folk musicians have honed their perform...

A song, so old and yet still famous is a Malay expression of admiration for an exotic singing style, a musical contemplation on the beauty of natur...

Jerome Just one more Song! A Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer. This timeless Songs collectio...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can b...

Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originate...

Alabama is a state rich in folksong tradition, from old English ballads sung along the Tennessee River to children's game songs played in Mobile, f...

In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and soun...

Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that-to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and sati...

World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash a real folk hero. A virtuoso fiddler from the Blue Ridge, Hash buil...