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Going to the Well for Water
Going To The Well For Water
    Features a translation of
    the diaries of Seamus
    Ennis, fulltime
    collector of music and
    song with the Irish
    Folklore Commission
    describing his work, the
    people he met, the
    material he gathered and
    his communication with
    the head office of the
    commission in Dublin.
    This book also
    illustrates life in the
    Gaeltacht during the
    Second World War.
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Tuned Out
Tuned Out
    Offers a look at the
    attitudes of Protestant
    performers to Traditional
    music in Northern
    Ireland. This work
    reflects on Protestant
    community views of the
    music through their eyes,
    and considers the impact
    of historical literature,
    political statements and
    other interventions which
    have affected and shaped
    Traditional music.
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Singing Out
Singing Out
    Singing Out: An Oral
    History of America's Folk
    Music Revivals is a
    multi-voiced, historical
    narrative of the North
    American folk music
    revivals of the twentieth
    century culled from more
    than 150 oral history
    interviews from 1976 to
    2006, among them Charles
    Seeger, Pete Seeger,
    Bernice Reagon, and Arlo
    Guthrie.
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A Gamelan Manual
A Gamelan Manual
    A Gamelan Manual is a
    comprehensive description
    of the performance
    practice of the central
    Javanese gamelan. It is
    mainly for the many
    gamelan players in the
    West, but also for
    composers, teachers,
    and music-lovers seeking
    a detailed description of
    one of the most widely
    heard and widely admired
    non-Western musical
    cultures.
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This Land is Your Land
This Land Is Your Land
    This Land Is Your Land is
    an iconic folk song in
    American history, and
    the masterwork of one of
    the country's greatest
    singer/song-writers,
    Woody Guthrie. Written in
    1940 and first recorded
    in 1944, the song became
    an instant hit, and then
    a point of controversy,
    and finally a
    cross-generational
    anthem. This title tells
    the story of the song.
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50 Great Irish Fighting Songs
50 Great Irish Fighting Songs
    A collection of 50 Irish
    fighting and patriotic
    songs with lyrics,
    guitar chords, score and
    CD attached, together
    with interesting
    histories and backgrounds
    which inspired the songs.
    Full colour throughout,
    with many photographs of
    Irish life and culture
    and reflecting on the
    songs themselves.
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Songs of the Pacific Northwest
Songs Of The Pacific Northwest
    British Columbians have
    always sung about their
    work, and their
    recreation, their
    politics, their living
    conditions - the good
    times and the bad. This
    collection of songs
    presents a documentary
    giving glimpses into the
    social, economic, and
    political life of the
    province from the time of
    Captain Cook to the
    present.
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Songs of the North Woods
Songs Of The North Woods
    Edith Fowke was a
    renowned Canadian
    folklorist, folk song
    collector, researcher,
    writer, & teacher who
    during her long career
    recorded nearly 2000
    songs. The songs, mostly
    of Irish origin, were
    popular among settlers to
    the Ottawa valley. This
    title includes a detailed
    musical analysis that
    outlines the meter,
    scale, & range of each
    song.
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Electric Eden
Electric Eden
    Investigates how the idea
    of folk has been handed
    down and transformed by
    successive generations -
    song collectors,
    composers, Marxist
    revivalists,
    folk-rockers,
    psychedelic voyagers,
    free festival-goers,
    experimental pop stars
    and electronic
    innovators.
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Echoes from Georgia
Echoes From Georgia
    Georgia is one of the
    international centers of
    the study of the
    traditional polyphony.
    Suitable for those who
    are interested in
    Georgian traditional
    polyphonic singing, this
    book contains seventeen
    works of seventeen
    authors, both foreign
    and Georgian scholars,
    written throughout the
    20th and 21st centuries.
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Remembered Rhythms
Remembered Rhythms
    Explores the role of
    music and cultural memory
    in shaping and creating
    diasporic identities.
    Illustrated throughout
    with halftones and
    accompanied by a compact
    disc of musical examples
    from many of the
    traditions discussed,
    this title is of interest
    to scholars of
    ethnomusicology and
    cultural anthropology.
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Electric Eden
Electric Eden
    Documents one of the
    great untold stories of
    British music over the
    past century. This title
    surveys the visionary,
    topographic and esoteric
    impulses that have driven
    the margins of British
    visionary folk music from
    Vaughan Williams and
    Holst to The Incredible
    String Band, Nick Drake,
    John Martyn and Aphex
    Twin.
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SamulNori
SamulNori
    In 1978, four musicians
    crowded into a cramped
    basement theater in
    downtown Seoul, where
    they, for the first
    time, brought the rural
    percussive art of
    p'ungmul to a burgeoning
    urban audience. This
    title traces this
    reinvention through the
    rise of the Korean
    supergroup.
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Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum
Ancient Text Messages Of The
Yoruba Bata Drum
    The bata is one of the
    most important and
    representative percussion
    traditions of the people
    in southwest Nigeria,
    and is now learnt and
    performed around the
    world. The author
    explains how the bata
    drummers' speech encoding
    method links into
    universal linguistic
    properties, unknown to
    the musicians themselves.
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Traditional Inuit Songs from the Thule Area
Traditional Inuit Songs From
The Thule Area
    In 1937, Professor Erik
    Holtved recorded 134
    traditional songs from
    the Thule area, mostly
    drum-songs. This book
    transcribes and analyzes
    these songs. It also
    analyzes: recordings from
    Uummannaq-Upernavik in
    1912, from the Copper
    Inuit areas in 1914-16,
    Bent Jensen and Hauser's
    1962 recordings from
    Thule, and from Baffin
    Island in the 1970s.
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Indian Music and the West
Indian Music And The West
    This text examines
    perceptions and
    representations of Indian
    music in the West over a
    period of 200 years,
    ranging from Orientalist
    studies of Indian history
    and culture in the 18th
    and 19th centuries to the
    adoption of elements from
    Indian music in Western
    popular culture in the
    late 20th century.
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Carols for Choirs
Carols For Choirs
    50 Christmas carols
    Orchestrations for
    several of the carols
    from this collection are
    available on sale or hire
    under the titles Three
    Carol Orchestrations and
    Five Christmas Carols.
    Eight Carol
    Accompaniments for 5 and
    8 part brass (to
    accompany carols from
    CfC1 and CfC2) are also
    on sale.
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Spiritual Folk Singing
Spiritual Folk Singing
    Spiritual folk singing is
    a fascinating form of
    musical expression. This
    book presents spiritual
    folk singing traditions
    from the Nordic-Baltic
    area as a common theme.
    It demonstrates the
    significant local
    differences in melody
    traditions, as well as
    the many common traits in
    substance and historical
    background.
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Irish Traditional Music
Irish Traditional Music
    Offers an introduction to
    the instrumental and
    vocal traditions of the
    Republic of Ireland and
    Northern Ireland, as
    well as Irish music in
    the context of the Irish
    diaspora. This title
    features an accompanying
    CD that presents both
    traditional and
    contemporary sounds of
    Irish music at home and
    abroad.
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The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora
The Musical Traditions Of
Northern Ireland And Its
Diaspora
    With the espousal of a
    discrete Ulster Scots
    tradition since the
    signing of the Belfast
    (or 'Good Friday')
    Agreement in 1998, the
    characteristics of the
    traditional music
    performed in Northern
    Ireland, and the place
    of Protestant musicians
    within popular Irish
    culture, clearly require
    a thoroughgoing analysis.
    This book provides such
    analysis.
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Bound for Glory
Bound For Glory
    An autobiography of Woody
    Guthrie, founder of
    modern American folk
    music. This book presents
    a cynical, earthy and
    tragic account of his
    life in an Oklahoma
    oil-boom town, of the
    Depression that followed,
    and of his subsequent
    travels in, on, and
    under trains, in stolen
    cars and on his feet,
    round an America going
    rotten from the top
    downwards.
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Play Flamenco
Play Flamenco
    Originating from
    Andalusia in Spain,
    Flamenco music embodies a
    complex musical and
    cultural tradition. This
    book presents the
    elements of this
    passionate and beautiful
    music on guitar. It helps
    you discover the
    background and spirit of
    flamenco, the hand and
    seating positions, and
    the technique, and
    introduces different
    palos or styles.
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Where Have All The Flowers
Gone
    From the 1940s when he
    began playing with Woodie
    Guthrie and Lead Belly,
    through fifty years of
    activism, Pete Seeger
    has held the belief that
    everyone should be able
    to participate in making
    music. This
    autobiographical songbook
    includes lyrics, music
    and chords to songs,
    plus personal
    observations, anecdotes,
    and photographs and
    drawings.
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The British Folk Revival 1944-2002
The British Folk Revival
1944-2002
    During the 1960s a
    revival of interest in
    folk music in Britain led
    to a polarization and the
    contemporary-versus-traditional
    debate began in earnest.
    The author traces this
    revival and the recent
    history of British folk
    music in a highly
    accessible and readable
    style.
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Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs
Anthology Of Yiddish Folksongs
    A collection of 350 songs
    that is complete with the
    music, the words in
    Yiddish and in
    transliteration into
    Latin characters, and
    translations or summaries
    in English and Hebrew. It
    traces the sources of
    Yiddish song, recreates
    the pre-war East European
    Jewish world in which the
    songs are rooted, and
    fuses memory with
    history.
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Say it One Time for the Broken Hearted
Say It One Time For The Broken
Hearted
    In the American South,
    blacks and whites have
    been influencing each
    other's music for
    generations, from the
    hymns of the 18th century
    to the soul music of the
    60s. Full of personal
    interviews, this book
    goes in search of the
    artists behind this blend
    of music.
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Dazzling Stranger
Dazzling Stranger
    The guitarists' guitarist
    and the songwriters'
    songwriter, the
    legendary Bert Jansch has
    influenced diverse stars.
    Born in Edinburgh in
    1943, Jansch became an
    inspirational and
    pioneering figure during
    Britain's 'folk revival'
    of the 1960s. In 1967,
    he formed folk/jazz
    fusion band Pentangle
    with John Renbourn and
    enjoyed international
    success.
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The Mayor of Macdougal Street
The Mayor Of Macdougal Street
    Presents a memoir of the
    '60s Greenwich Village
    folk revival. This book
    features encounters with
    some of the young
    stars-to-be that the
    author mentored, like
    Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton,
    Phil Ochs, John Baez,
    and Joni Mitchell, as
    well as older luminaries
    like Reverend Gary Davis,
    Woody Guthrie,
    Mississippi John Hurt and
    Odetta.
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What the Music Said
What The Music Said
    A history of black
    communities in America,
    which focuses on musical
    traditions from early
    jazz to hip-hop. The
    author also considers the
    social forces and
    organisations which
    countered these artistic
    movements, including the
    FBI and the Nixon
    administration.
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The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora
The Musical Traditions Of
Northern Ireland And Its
Diaspora
    Ireland has exerted an
    important influence on
    the development of the
    traditional, popular and
    art musics of other
    regions. This book
    provides ethnographic and
    ethnomusicological
    studies of a group of
    traditional musicians
    from County Antrim. It
    offers a consideration of
    the cultural dynamics of
    Northern Ireland with
    respect to traditional
    music.
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Sandy Denny: Reflections on Her Music
Sandy Denny: Reflections On
Her Music
    Name-checked in a Kate
    Bush song, twice voted
    Top British Female Singer
    by readers of Melody
    Maker, photographed by
    David Bailey, has a
    day-lily variety named
    after her... The only
    guest vocalist ever to
    appear on a Led Zeppelin
    album, she was described
    by Zeppelin's Robert
    Plant as 'my favourite
    singer out of all the
    British girls that ever
    were'.
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The Music of Black Americans
The Music Of Black Americans
    Provides comprehensive
    coverage of black
    American music, from the
    arrival of the first
    Africans in the English
    colonies to contemporary
    developments in
    African-American history.
    The book draws on
    authentic documents,
    from colonial times to
    the present, to
    illuminate the history of
    black music.
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Which Side are You On?
Which Side Are You On?
    In 1932, Florence Reece,
    the wife of a Kentucky
    coal miner, wrote one of
    the classic topical songs
    preserved in the folk
    musical revival, Which
    Side Are You On?. This
    work brings the history
    of this remarkable song
    that might serve as a
    microcosm of the entire
    history of the folk music
    revival.
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Landscapes of Indigenous Performance
Landscapes Of Indigenous
Performance
    Brings together a range
    of contemporary
    explorations of
    Indigenous music and
    dance in the Torres
    Strait and the tropical
    regions of the Northern
    Territory. This title
    shows how traditional
    music and dance have
    responded to colonial
    control and to other
    forces beyond local
    control. It offers an
    understanding of the
    history of Torres Strait
    music.
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The Folk Handbook
The Folk Handbook
    Many of the great songs
    that have inspired
    performers around the
    world in the last 50
    years come from the
    English folk song
    tradition. This book
    provides words and
    melodies for nearly 100
    songs, along with an
    exploration of their
    history and meaning, the
    context in which they
    arose, and their value
    to writers and performers
    around the world.
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Historical Studies on Folk and Traditional Music
Historical Studies On Folk And
Traditional Music
    This work consists of 22
    articles written by music
    scholars and ethnologists
    from all over Europe. The
    contributions are
    concerned with the study
    of music traditions
    within various ethnic
    groups and they throw
    light on the historical
    process behind the
    "traditional" music of
    today.
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Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain
Flamenco Music And National
Identity In Spain
    Explores the efforts of
    the government in
    southern Spain to
    establish flamenco music
    as a significant
    patrimonial symbol and
    marker of cultural
    identity. Further, this
    title aims to show that
    these Andalusian efforts
    form part of the
    ambitious project of
    rethinking the
    nation-state of Spain,
    and of reconsidering the
    nature of national
    identity.
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