Avi - Folk & Traditional 1

Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before. Derived from years of conversations between Seeger and his close friend and collaborator David Bernz, it takes readers on a uniq……続きを見る

This book examines Chilean singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet and ethnographer Violeta Parra (1917–1967). Parra perceived her multiple outputs to be unified and continuous with her own self, dem……続きを見る

"She was like a storm." ーLeonard Cohen The remarkable, heart-wrenching story of Joni Mitchell, the influential artist who left an indelible mark on American music. In Reckless Daughter, music criti……続きを見る

Adult Harmonica Method is an exciting harmonica course that teaches reading and playing for the person looking to study at home or with a community harmonica band. Whether you stay with the harmonic……続きを見る

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular musicーsongs and dancesーfrom the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this ……続きを見る

Ronnie Lane’s story is that of a working-class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight. As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden, who paid him in pa……続きを見る

An honest and revealing memoir from musician David Crosby, founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. A true rock-and-roll survivor, David Crosby was the quintessential American ……続きを見る

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings 'A thing of beauty' DAVID HOLMES 'A celebration of obsessives, misfits and single-minde……続きを見る

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia Universityーand the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do soーKentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-start……続きを見る

This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose Acres Folk Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where ……続きを見る

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fi……続きを見る

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas musicーits multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relat……続きを見る

Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference For more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. His lyrics and melodies pain……続きを見る

For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and art musics of other regions, and in particular tho……続きを見る

A unique look at heritage singers based on research for a lottery-funded project to make traditional music available to the general public. Do we all have singing ancestors? In the days before mass ……続きを見る

Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 197……続きを見る

Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 197……続きを見る

Cabaret performances are often known for bringing alive the Great American Songbook from the 1920s through the 1950s for contemporary audiences. But modern-day cabaret does much more than preserve t……続きを見る

El libro Primeras Lecciones de Armonica es un emocionante curso de instrucción paso por paso para la armónica diatónica de diez agujeros. Los temas cubiertos son: lectura de notación musical; entren……続きを見る

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with polit……続きを見る

First Lessons® Harmonica is an exciting step-by-step instruction course for the ten-hole diatonic harmonica. Subjects covered are reading music notation; rhythm training; train patterns; folk tunes;……続きを見る

The mandolin edition of Tone Poems presents notation and tablature for all 17 solos from the remarkable CD of the same name by David Grisman and Tony Rice. 続きを見る

Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a va……続きを見る

A collection of 30 popular traditional Celtic reels for the diatonic harmonica. Every tune is played on the accompanying audio download. Every tune has been adapted/transcribed to be played on a sin……続きを見る

As Earl Scruggs picked his banjo with machine gun precision at his 1945 debut at the Ryman Auditorium, he set in motion a successful career and enduring legacy that would eclipse anything the humble……続きを見る

This book presents a collection of classic wedding standards for solo keyboard accordion. The songs are presented in easy-to-read arrangements in popular keys. Each piece includes fingering suggesti……続きを見る

A superb instructional text for five-string banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret. Included are chapters on roll patterns, chords, songs, licks, chord progressions, arranging songs, impro……続きを見る

Learn to read music, play popular songs and be part of an ensemble. For home study, senior wellness classes and better breathers groups. Specially designed lessons and information for those with COP……続きを見る

What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must en……続きを見る

***WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE*** ***WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION AWARD*** A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer……続きを見る