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100 Irish Polkas: With Chords Suitable for All Melody Instrumentsby Dave MallinsonISBN 1899512217 (1-899512-21-7)
Softcover, Dave Mallinson Pubns
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Acoustic Stories: Playing Bass With Peter, Paul and Mary, Jerry Garcia, and Bill Monroe, and Eighteen Other Unamplified Talesby Bill AmatneekISBN 192857811X (1-928578-11-X)
Softcover, Vineyards Pr
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The Age of Revolution: 1776 To 1815 in the Irish Song Traditionby Terry MoylanISBN 1901866491 (1-901866-49-1)
Softcover, Lilliput Pr Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Revolution: 1776 To 1815 in the Irish Song Tradition'Book summary:This is a definitive gathering of songs, poems, and tunes set in Ireland over the four decades between the American Revolution and the Battle of Waterloo. It shows how the events of those years inspired literary and musical efforts in each generation. Many of the traditional songs-more than 200-have been notated directly from singers, representing a considerable addition to the literature of traditional song. The appropriate music is included for all the songs, with the words accompanying the tunes. It includes a number of pieces written by members of the United Irishmen, including Wolfe Tone, Henry Joy McCracken, Jemmy Hope, and Robert Emmet. All the pieces are provided with notes listing the source and musical associations of the item, as well as the historical and political background. These provide the context in which this material may be understood and enjoyed today. [via]
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American Roots Musicby Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Jim Brown, Bonnie RaittISBN 0810914328 (0-8109-1432-8)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Roots Music'Book summary:In the 20th century, American roots music - gospel, blues, country, western, folk, cajun, zydeco, tejano and Native American - was invented and nurtured in small communities and spread across the nation and the world. Eventually these traditional forms gave rise to the popular music that conquered the world: rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and rock and roll. "American Roots Music" tells the story of this creative outpouring, spotlighting the pioneers who wrote the music and sang the songs, the entrepreneurs who used radio and recordings to convey the new sounds to the public, the innovative musicians who cross-pollinated traditional types of music, and the contemporary artists who have an international following with their own interpretations. This book includes: essays on the major musical genres, sidebars on pivotal events, narrative from key artists (including B.B. King, Bessie Smith, Elvis Presley, Muddy Waters and Hank Williams), and outlines of musical and social history. Portraits, performance shots and ephemera such as sheet music and record sleeves illustrate the text. [via]
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Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Yearsby Eric Von Schmidt, Jim RooneyISBN 0870239252 (0-87023-925-2)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years'Book summary:Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music. Compiled by two musicians who were active participants in the Cambridge folk scene, the volume documents a special time in United States culture when the honesty and vitality of traditional folk music were combined with the raw power of urban blues and the high energy of electric rock and roll to create a new American popular music. [via]
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Ballad Book of John Jacob Nilesby John Jacob NilesISBN 0813109876 (0-8131-0987-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Blues on Cd: The Essential Guideby Charles Shaar MurrayISBN 1856260844 (1-85626-084-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Bound for Gloryby Woody GuthrieISBN 0452264456 (0-452-26445-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bound for Glory'Book summary:The original road novel--even though it takes the form of autobiography. If Guthrie didn't actually invent the footloose, no- strings-attached American hero (remember this guy Twain who wrote something about lighting out for the territory?), he certainly solidified the 20th-century version. Guitar slung over the shoulder as he sprinted to boost himself aboard freight trains, a man of the people equally at home with urban intellectuals, Guthrie incarnated for generations of Americans the artist as free spirit. This is the book that created the legend. [via]
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Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Bound for Glory: ISBN 0451071190 (0-451-07119-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Bound for Glory: ISBN 0452254833 (0-452-25483-3)
Softcover, New American Library - Bound for Glory: ISBN 0330241664 (0-330-24166-4)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Bound for Glory: ISBN 0525070257 (0-525-07025-7)
Hardcover, E. P. Dutton - Bound for Glory: ISBN 0452264456 (0-452-26445-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harperby Donal O'SullivanISBN 1900428717 (1-900428-71-7)
Softcover, Ossian Pubns Ltd
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Carry It On : The Story of America's Working People in Song and Pictureby Pete Seeger, Bob ReiserISBN 0962670464 (0-9626704-6-4)
Softcover, Sing Out! Publications
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Chroniclesby Bob DylanISBN 0743244583 (0-7432-4458-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles'Book summary:As the first volume of Chronicles, Bob Dylans long-anticipated autobiography, finally appears, we are given a forcible reminder how it has never been easy to be a Dylan admirer. How could the fiercely anti-establishment composer of With God on Our Side embrace (in turn) orthodox Judaism, then fundamentalist Christianity two religions absolutely antithetical to his celebration of the unfettered human spirit ? How could the demigod of folk (and disciple of Woody Guthrie) make his controversial move into electric rock? How could this man of the streets become the arch capitalist? If no answers to these questions are to be found within the pages of Chronicles, there is nevertheless a whole host of pleasures to be encountered: literary felicities, brilliantly etched pen portraits of musical personalities he has encountered, the biting wit one might expect not to mention a thousand surprises (how could a man hardly noted for the beauty of his vocal tones be such an admirer of composers whose work he could never tackle, such as Harold Arlen, composer of Over the Rainbow?.
Those who have loved Dylans lyrics (and thats a good chunk of the academic world these days) will find the same coruscating prose here: idea and image fused into brilliant (if often opaque) word pictures, as Dylan takes us back to his early days on the New York folk scene, before he became the face of rebellion in music. There are insights into his reluctance to conform to the image his fans have of him (hence his highly unlikely conversion to religious dogmas?), and this inaugural volume of his autobiography takes the reader up to the moment of his first real celebrity. Its a fascinating and infuriating read, of a piece with Dylan the Enigma. And perhaps answers to those unanswered questions will appear in succeeding volumes. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Seriesby Bob DylanISBN 0786273410 (0-7862-7341-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Series'Book summary:One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.
For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."
Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder [via]
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The Collected Reprints from Sing Out!: The Folk Song Magazine, Volumes 7-12, 1964-1973ISBN 1881322009 (1-881322-00-9)
Softcover, Sing Out Pubns
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Dazzling Strangerby Colin Harper, Johnny MarrISBN 0747587256 (0-7475-8725-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revivalby Colin HarperISBN 0747553300 (0-7475-5330-0)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Undergroundby Scott AlarikISBN 0972027017 (0-9720270-1-7)
Softcover, Black Wolf Pr
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylanby Howard SounesISBN 0802138918 (0-8021-3891-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan'Book summary:Featuring a wealth of new information, Down the Highway is likely to be hailed as the definitive biography of Bob Dylan. Acclaimed biographer Howard Sounes has spent three years researching the book and has interviewed more than 250 people important in Dylan's life -- many of whom have never before given interviews -- and sifted through documentary evidence unavailable to previous biographers. With this unprecedented access, Sounes dispels many myths, reveals major discoveries, and uncovers the secret life of the mysterious singer, while giving a full appreciation of Dylan's artistic achievements and significance to American culture. Sounes's prodigious research has led to many significant revelations about every aspect of Dylan's life. For years there has been speculation about Dylan's marital life and children, and Sounes has uncovered the complete, fascinating story of his family life, which will completely change the public's perception of the singer. Sounes has interviewed a key witness to Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident, a turning point in his career. The witness has never before spoken publicly, and Sounes provides the clearest picture yet of the accident and the subsequent "lost years" in Woodstock, New York. He also gives inside accounts of the important recording sessions and concert tours, the creation of every album and the most celebrated songs, Dylan's labyrinthine love life, his heart illness in 1997, and much more. These inside accounts come directly from Sounes's extensive interviews of girlfriends, family members, former personal assistants, fellow music stars and friends, members of touring and session bands, producers, club owners and concert promoters, and many others. Candid and refreshing, Down the Highway is also a sincere appreciation of Dylan's seminal place in postwar American cultural history and an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan's music over the years. [via]
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The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rockby Dave LaingISBN 0413318605 (0-413-31860-5)
Hardcover, Methuen
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The Fiddle Bookby Marion ThedeISBN 0825625459 (0-8256-2545-9)
Softcover, Beekman Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fiddle Book'Book summary:Fifty fiddle tunes from the basic Irish, English, Welsh and Scotland repertoires. It includes well-known standards and obscure gems, as well as tips on authentic techniques and interpretation and a discography. [via]
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Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time SouthernISBN 0825625440 (0-8256-2544-0)
Softcover, Amsco Music
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The Fiddler's Tune-Book: 200 Traditional Airsby Peter KennedyISBN 1899512144 (1-899512-14-4)
Softcover, Dave Mallinson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fiddler's Tune-Book: 200 Traditional Airs'Book summary:First published in multiple volumes in the early 1950s and now reprinted in one volume with chord symbols added, The Fiddler's Tune-Book is a landmark collection, edited by veteran folklorist and collecter Peter Kennedy. This book is crammed with 200 core repertoire tunes for all traditional musicians. If you have no traditional music books, this is the first one you should buy. This generous selection of some of the finest airs in the British Isles is sure to be welcomed not only by those same musicians who used the original volume, but also by the succession of younger traditional players eager to plunder this legendary treasure chest of timeless melodies. Complete with index with alternative titles, and an introduction by Peter Kennedy. [via]
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Fireside Book of Folk Songsby M. BoniISBN 0671258362 (0-671-25836-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fireside Book of Folk Songs'Book summary:RustyRiver offers fast daily shipping and 100% customer satisfaction GUARANTEED! Moderate wear to cover. Tear in cover. Slightly bent pages. [via]
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Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continentsby Bruno NettlISBN 0133232476 (0-13-323247-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Folk Music Sourcebookby Larry Sandberg, Dick WeissmanISBN 0306803607 (0-306-80360-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Folk Music Sourcebook'Book summary:This revised and updated book is a guide for the listener, collector, singer, player and devotee of folk music. It covers music from string band to bluegrass, Canadian, Creole, Zydeco, jug bands, ragtime and the many kinds of blues. The book evaluates, reviews and recommends on such subjects as where to buy records and instruments and places where folk music flourishes. [via]
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Folk Songs of North Americaby Alan LomaxISBN 0385037724 (0-385-03772-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Folksinger's Wordbookby Irwin SilberISBN 0825601401 (0-8256-0140-1)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folksinger's Wordbook'Book summary:Probably the most comprehensive collection of songs1000 folk songs, work songs, old favorites and new classics. Thirty-nine sections each containing as many songs as can be found in some songbooks. For schools, camps, and churches. [via]
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The Good Fairies of New Yorkby Martin MillarISBN 1857022173 (1-85702-217-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Fairies of New York'Book summary:This book enables teachers to develop a complete range of basic investigations for science with students aged five to 11 years. It demonstrates how children can use hands-on activities to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding. Investigations are presented in a generic form, so that teachers can work through them and adapt them to meet the particular needs of their own classes. The presentation of activities ranges from highly-structured sequences of instructions and questions (with answers!), to more general discussions, depending on the approach needed and the likely variations in equipment and materials available. Each activity is aimed to help any teacher carry out significant scientific investigations with their class, and where necessary, to learn alongside them. Almost every investigation and activity has been tested by the author. Investigations use readily-available, non-specialist or recycled materials. The context of this book is children's need to learn through first-hand experience of the world around them. This book is an essential resource for teachers planning an effective science programme, or for student teachers needing to broaden their scientific knowledge and understanding. "200 Science Investigations for Young Students" is the companion volume of activities which demonstrate the theories in Martin Wenham's "Understanding Primary Science". The content has been guided by, but not limited to, The National Curriculum 2000 and the Initial Teacher Training Curriculum for Primary Science, issued by the Teacher Training Agency. [via]
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The Good Fairies of New Yorkby Neil GaimanISBN 1933368365 (1-933368-36-5)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Fairies of New York'Book summary:The Good Fairies of New York tells the fish-out-of-water story of two Scottish thistle fairies who find themselves in Manhattan. The fairies hook up with two humans, Kerry (complete with colostomy bag) and Dinnie (antisocial in the extreme), finding time to help both get their acts together. A book that brings together race riots and Scottish folklore, The Good Fairies of New York is anything but a typical fairy fantasy.[via]More editions of The Good Fairies of New York:
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Hearts and Hands: Musical Instrumentsby Jake Jacobson, Nancy EllisISBN 3829024088 (3-8290-2408-8)
Hardcover, Konemann
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How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seegerby David K. DunawayISBN 0306803992 (0-306-80399-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seegerby David King DunawayISBN 0070181500 (0-07-018150-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Incompleat Folksingerby Pete Seeger, Jo Metcalf SchwartzISBN 0803292163 (0-8032-9216-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incompleat Folksinger'Book summary:Pete Seeger has sung as courageously as anyone has ever spoken, always in defense of the poor, the oppressed, and the exploited. His songs have enriched his life and his life has filled his songs with every emotion dear to the soul. But his deep understanding of sorrow and injustice have not spoiled a single note. He sings to enliven and encourage, to delight and tell tales. He snatches the riches of folksinging from as many sources as he can find and gives them freely and gladly to any audience that cares to listen.[via]Decades of work and travel have made him famous but he remains forever in tune with the folk. He describes his friends and inspirations, his conflicts with the bosses and the government, his favorite songs, stories, and instruments, and the kind of learning that comes from listening carefully. "Any fool can get complicated," he writes. "We are born in simplicity but die of complications."
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Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil MarcusISBN 0805058427 (0-8050-5842-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes'Book summary:While focusing on a select group of musicians performing privately in a brief window of time, noted music and culture writer Greil Marcus cuts to the core of the American musical legacy to study it as a slightly blurred snapshot, full of shadow and mystery. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes centers around the now legendary recordings made by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967, and how this music signaled a change in American music by capturing the essence of the moment within the context of a rich folk tradition. During these casual sessions they recorded more than 100 songs, some originals, but most borrowed from barely remembered folk, blues, and country musicians.
This music they derived from had been part of the American fabric in an anonymous way that can only be explained as folklore and myth, and they breathed new life into it while adhering to its legacy. Though never intended for release, these recordings molded into the tradition of music as oral history, and appropriately, a few tapes were passed hand to hand, then some were pressed as bootleg records, which then spread like rumors. This folk revival conjured up a collection of timeless stories that many had heard in a slightly different form without ever knowing who started them. Just as Dylan did with the Basement Tapes, Marcus's exhilarating book extends beyond music and into the psyche of America, making the present more clear by putting the past into focus. [via]
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Irish Session Tunes: 100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airsby Matt CranitchISBN 190042861X (1-900428-61-X)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish Session Tunes: 100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs'Book summary:This series contains over 100 Irish dance tunes and airs in each volume. The collections contain a varied selection of widely played and lesser-known tunes, divided into different dance rhythms, and then sorted into sets of similar tunes to be played at Irish sessions. The range of the tunes are particularly suitable for the fiddle, but can be used on other instruments. The "red book" includes 100 tunes, separated into double jigs, slides, slip jigs, polkas, reels, hornpipes, set dances and airs. Songs include: Father O'Flynn * The Lucky Penny * Dan O'Keeffe's Slide * The Blue Ribbon * The Pigeon on the Gate * Master Crowley * Fallon's Hornpipe * The Blackbird * and more. [via]
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The Land Where the Blues Beganby Alan LomaxISBN 1565847393 (1-56584-739-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land Where the Blues Began'Book summary:Co-founder--with folklorist father John A. Lomax--of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax traveled the South "from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia" in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie Patton, among many other blues pioneers. This winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction is more than just another profile of a musical genre. It's an intimate diary of a purely American art form born of a powerful mix of despair and hope. [via]
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Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Musicby Ciaran CarsonISBN 0865475318 (0-86547-531-8)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoirby Elijah Wald, Dave Van Ronk, Lawrence BlockISBN 030681479X (0-306-81479-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir'Book summary:Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the 1960s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerless musical historian, and one of the most quotable figures on the Greenwich Village scene. Holding court in legendary venues like Gerdes Folk City and the Gaslight Caf8E, Van Ronks influence was so great that a stretch of Sheridan Squarethe heart of the Villagewas renamed on June 30, 2004, and is now Dave Van Ronk Street.The Mayor of MacDougal Street is a unique first-hand account by a major player in the social and musical history of the 50s and 60s. It features encounters with young stars-to-be like Bob Dylan (who survived much of his first year in New York sleeping on Van Ronks couch), Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries like Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, and Odetta.Colorful, hilarious, engaging, and a vivid evocation of a fascinating time and place, The Mayor of MacDougal Street will appeal not only to folk and blues fans but to anyone interested in the music, politics, and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture.[via]More editions of The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir:
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Mothersby Kathleen Hirsch, Katrina KenisonISBN 0865475113 (0-86547-511-3)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mothers'Book summary:Mothers presents the whole range of maternal experiences, from pregnancy and birth to adolescence and adulthood. The mothers in these stories, often solely in charge of their families, sometimes feel inadequate to the task and occasionally resent their responsibilities--yet they are fiercely bound to their children. This book will speak powerfully to every woman about the challenges and transcendent joys of motherhood today. [via]
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The New Policemanby Kate ThompsonISBN 0061174270 (0-06-117427-0)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylanby Robert SheltonISBN 0306807823 (0-306-80782-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan'Book summary:Robert Shelton, a critic for the New York Times in 1961, caught an early Bob Dylan gig at Folk City in Greenwich Village and wrote an effusive review for the newspaper. The coverage in the Times was a huge boost to the career of the then-struggling folksinger, and Shelton and Dylan became friends, seeing each other frequently around the Village folk scene. When Shelton, in the 1980s, finally got around to finishing his full-length biography of Dylan, he could draw upon a wealth of insider stories from the early days. The book is naturally strongest when describing Dylan's early career, from his coffeehouse gigs as a Woody Guthrie disciple to the insanely high artistic peaks of the mid-'60s. A particularly engaging passage concerns a freeform interview Shelton conducted with Dylan as they flew high above the Midwest in early 1966; Shelton's memories of Dylan are essential reading for fans. Shelton saw much less of the notoriously private Dylan as the years passed, and the book loses momentum as he becomes less of an eyewitness and more of a distant observer, though Dylan's story is credibly told up through the mid-1980s. --Robert McNamara [via]
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Softcover, Da Capo Pr - No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan: ISBN 0345347218 (0-345-34721-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan: ISBN 068805045X (0-688-05045-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub - No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan: ISBN 0306807823 (0-306-80782-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
- No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan: ISBN 0306812878 (0-306-81287-8)
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil Marcus, Bob DylanISBN 0312420439 (0-312-42043-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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As Mark Sinker observed in The Wire: "Marcus's contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse, and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak." But the country mapped out in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie's land for made for you and me . . . It's what Marcus calls 'the old, weird America.'" This odd terrain, this strange yet familiar backdrop to our common cultural history--which Luc Sante (in New York magazine) termed the "playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all stripes"--is the territory that Marcus has discovered in Dylan's most mysterious music. And his analysis of that territory "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly) and exhibits "a mad, sparkling brilliance" (David Remnick, The New Yorker) throughout. This new edition of The Old, Weird America includes an updated discography.More editions of The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes:
Pauline Cato's Northumbrian Choiceby pauline CatoISBN 1899512381 (1-899512-38-1)
Softcover, Dave Mallinson Pubns
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The Popular Balladby Francis B. GummereISBN 0844621757 (0-8446-2175-7)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farinaby David HajduISBN 086547642X (0-86547-642-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina'Book summary:David Hajdu (pronounced HAY-doo), the prizewinning author of the magisterial jazz biography Lush Life, now steam-cleans the legend of the lost folk generation in Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. What a ripping read! It's like an invitation to the wildest party Greenwich Village ever saw. You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet bewilderingly new music. Hajdu's sociomusical analysis is as scholarly as (though less arty than) Greil Marcus's work; he deftly sketches the sources and evolving styles of his ambitious, rather calculating subjects, proving in the process that genius is not individual--it's rooted in a time and place. Hajdu says Dylan heisted many early tunes (e.g., "Maggie's Farm" from Pete Seeger's "Down on Penny's Farm"): "Dylan [told] a radio interviewer that he felt as if his music had always existed and he just wrote it down ... [in fact], much of his early work had existed as other writers' melodies, chord structures, or thematic ideas." But Dylan and company made it all their own, and Hajdu vividly evokes the scenes they made.
Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there. The unknown Baez barefoot in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal overnight. The irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol. The "little spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me." A stoned Fariña advising Dylan to cynically hitch his wagon to Joan's rising star and "start a whole new genre. Poetry set to music, but not chamber music or beatnik jazz, man... poetry you can dance to."
The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humor and verbal wit harmonized with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history and uproarious soap opera. Hajdu's research is prodigious--even Fariña's close chum Thomas Pynchon granted interviews--and his anecdotes are often off-the-cuff funny: "[Rock manager Albert Grossman] was easy to deal with.... It wasn't till maybe two days after you would see Albert that you'd realize your underwear had been stolen." Full disclosure: Hajdu was one of my long-ago bosses at Entertainment Weekly, but that's certainly not why I heartily endorse this book. It's scholarship with a human face, akin to "poetry you can dance to." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Poverty Knockby Roy PalmerISBN 0521204437 (0-521-20443-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970by Ronald D. CohenISBN 1558493484 (1-55849-348-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Reels & Rants, Flings & Fanciesby Peter KennedyISBN 1899512489 (1-899512-48-9)
Softcover, Dave Mallinson Pubns
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Rise up Singingby Peter BloodISBN 0865711364 (0-86571-136-4)
Hardcover, Sing Out Corp
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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbookby Peter Blood, Annie Patterson, Kore Loy Mcwhirter, Pete SeegerISBN 1881322122 (1-881322-12-2)
Hardcover, Sing Out! Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook'Book summary:Words, chords and sources to 1200 songs for group singing anywhere, anytime! Includes illustrations and an introduction by Pete Seeger. Songs include: Amazing Grace + Desperado + Let It Be + My Favorite Things + The Rose + hundreds more. Spiral bound. [via]
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Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbookby Pete Seeger, Annie Patterson, Kore Loy McWhirterISBN 1881322130 (1-881322-13-0)
Softcover, Sing Out Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook'Book summary:Lyrics and guitar chords for nearly 1,200 songs are arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format in this comprehensive collection. Folk revival favorites; Broadway show tunes; Beatles songs; hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards; songs about peace, freedom, labor, and the environment; and chanteys are among the songs included. This revised and retypeset version of the enormously popular group singing songbook makes this essential resource easier to read and use than ever before.[via]More editions of Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook:
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Rough Guide World Music Africa, Europe and the Middle Eastby Simon BroughtonISBN 1858286352 (1-85828-635-2)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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The Scottish Collection for Guitarby Vincent K WoodsISBN 1871931274 (1-871931-27-4)
Softcover, Taign Na Teud Music Pub
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Slip Jigs and Waltzesby Peter KennedyISBN 1899512519 (1-899512-51-9)
Softcover, Dave Mallinson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slip Jigs and Waltzes'Book summary:Another entry of 200 tunes in the Fiddler's Tune-Book series, this book comes in response to the re-discovery of the much neglected triple-time jig and waltz rhythms once widely used for all kinds of traditional dancing in Britain and Ireland. Before the end of the nineteenth century this triple rhythm was used for long sets, contra dances and square sets. Both jigs and waltzes were used for these community formation dances, but of course, the waltz itself swept the fashionable ballrooms as a 'round dance' for individual couples. [via]
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Such a Killing Crimeby Robert LoprestiISBN 0972370633 (0-9723706-3-3)
Softcover, Kearney Street Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Such a Killing Crime'Book summary:SUCH A KILLING CRIME, a folk noir mystery featuring Joe Talley.
Greenwich Village, 1963: Hootenanny is a television hit, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are young fresh faces, and a gifted folk singer has just been murdered in Joe Talleys club, The Riding Beggar. [via]
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There Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Meby Anne E. NeimarkISBN 0689833695 (0-689-83369-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Traditional Irish Guitar: A Tradition-Based Approach to Accompaniment and Solo-Playing of Irish Dance Music on the Guitarby Paul De GraeISBN 1900428016 (1-900428-01-6)
Softcover, Ossian Pubns Ltd
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Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutorby Geraldine CotterISBN 0946005125 (0-946005-12-5)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Traditionals Foreverby Ralf MrutzekISBN 3932587464 (3-932587-46-4)
Softcover, Ama Verlag
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Turn! Turn! Turn: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolutionby Richie UnterbergerISBN 087930703X (0-87930-703-X)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Turn, Turn, Turnby Richie UnterbergeISBN 0634045881 (0-634-04588-1)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn, Turn, Turn'Book summary:Setting the scene with America's traditional folk of the early '60s, this book describes the sea of change that began in 1964 when the social consciousness of folk met the energy of rock. It concentrates on 1964-66, when the best, most popular, and most controversial folk-rock was created. The book explores the dizzyingly fast cross-fertilization of such giants as The Beatles, The Byrds, and Dylan; the passionate conflicts between folk devotees and folk-rockers; the sudden frenzy of the media; and the unforgettable music that was born. Turn! Turn! Turn! also examines how folk-rock continued to influence late '60s psychedelic rock, country-rock and the British scene, as well as its gradual, partial transformation into the singer-songwriter movement. Based on first-hand interviews with such visionaries as Roger McGuinn, Judy Collins, Donovan, John Sebastian, Arlo Guthrie, Janis Ian and dozens of others. [via]
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Westward Ho: The Heart of the Old Westby Diana WaringISBN 1888306254 (1-888306-25-4)
Softcover, Holly Hall Pub
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When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960sby Bruce PollockISBN 0030604265 (0-03-060426-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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When We Were Good: The Folk Revivalby Robert CantwellISBN 0674951336 (0-674-95133-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberiesby Pete Seeger, Peter BloodISBN 1881322017 (1-881322-01-7)
Softcover, Sing Out Pubns
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960sby Joe BoydISBN 1852429100 (1-85242-910-0)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s'Book summary:[via]This is the best book about music Ive read in years, and a gripping piece of social history. Brian Eno
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running UFO, the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd.
More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Joe Boyds White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.
Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942 and graduated from Harvard in 1964. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, R.E.M., and many others. He produced the documentary Jimi Hendrix and the film Scandal. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for twenty years. He lives in London.
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Woody Guthrie: A Lifeby Joe KleinISBN 0385333854 (0-385-33385-4)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woody Guthrie: A Life'Book summary:Before he became Anonymous, author of the political novel Primary Colors, Joe Klein wrote this intelligent biography of America's legendary folksinger-activist. Klein's first book may not have created the fuss that Primary Colors did, but it attracted the attention of no less a celebrity than Bruce Springsteen, who used to cite it with respect during concerts before singing Guthrie's most famous lyric, "This Land Is Your Land." Klein's unearthing of two politically radical verses usually omitted from that song is just one instance of the solid research underpinning his vivid narrative of Guthrie's often tragic life (1912-67). Before Woody turned 15, his sister died in a fire and his mother was committed to an Oklahoma insane asylum with a mysterious disease he later learned he inherited; Klein's chilling description of Huntington's chorea is one of the book's strong points. Its heart is a full rendering of Guthrie's restless wanderings across Depression-era America, which fired his lifelong radicalism, and a scrupulously unsentimental account of Woody's oft-sentimentalized personality. He may have been a genius and a staunch advocate of the common people, but Guthrie was also a bad husband, neglectful father, and difficult friend, as Klein shows. He pays Woody's life and music the tribute of assuming they need no sanitizing, and this biography is all the more interesting because of it. --Wendy Smith [via]
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World Music: Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypsoby Brian Priestley, Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Simon Broughton, Mark EllinghamISBN 1858280176 (1-85828-017-6)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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Bob Dylanby Luis MartinISBN 8437610427 (84-376-1042-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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