Collection of traditional songs sung in Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, each featuring the words, musical notation, and a historical commentary.
Traces the origins and development of many kinds of folk music in America, gives brief biographies of some famous folk singers, and discusses twentieth-century folk music.
the lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fari?a, and Richard Fari?a
Hajdu, David
2002
Examines the lives of folk musicians Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Joan's sister Mimi Baez Farina, and Mimi's writer husband Richard, and discusses the impact of the four young people on the sound and style of the 1960s.
Photographs and text present the biography of Woody Guthrie, who composed more than a thousand ballads and celebrated, in his songs and in his prose, the indomitable human spirit.
Photographs and text chronicle the history of American roots music, encompassing blues, country and western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other American genres of folk music.
Introduces some of the instruments used in world music, including the Indian sitar and tabla, Australian didgeridu and bullroarer, and African kora and sansa.
