Tunebook Bibliography 2
Scholarship and Analysis
Books in my collection that analyse folk songs and folk music.
For a bibliography of tunebooks, click here
For a list of collectors and their books, click here.
For a discography of recordings, click here.
For a list of helpful websites, click here.
  Author Title Publisher Date
  Abrahams, Roger & Foss, George Anglo American Folksong Style Prentiss Hall, Inc 1968
* Bayard, Samuel P. Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife Penn State Press 1982
* Chappell, William Popular music of the Olden Time (orignal publ: 1835) Dover Publications 1965
  Cook, Harold Shaker Music Bucknell University Press 1973
  Doughtie, Edward, ed. Lyrics from English Airs 1596 - 1622 Harvard University Press 1970
  Epstein, Dena J. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals University of Illinois Press 1977
  Gerould, Gordon The Ballad of Tradition Oxford University Press 1957
  Guthrie, Woody Bound for Glory New American Library 1943
  Hart, Mickey Song Catchers National Geographic ----
  Jabbour, Alan Fiddle Tunes Illuminated self published 2009
  Jackson, George Pullen Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America Dover Publications 1964
  Jackson, George Pullen White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands Dover Publications 1965
* Keyte, Hugh & Parrott, Andrew, ed. The New Oxford Book of Carols Oxford University Press 1992
* Levy, Lester S. Grace Notes in American History University of Oklahoma Press 1967
* Lomax, Alan Folk Songs of North America Doubleday 1960
* Lyle, Katie Letcher Scalded to Death by the Steam Algonquin Books 1983
  Muir, Willa Living With Ballads Oxford Universty Press 1965
  Paskman, Dailey Gentlemen, Be Seated Clarkson N Potter 1976
  Ritchie, Fiona Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia University of North Carolina Press 2014
  Seeger, Peter Henscratches and Flyspecks G P Putnams's Sons 1973
* Sharp, Cecil English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Oxford University Press 1932
  Zwonitzer, Mark Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone Simon & Schuster 2002
* - books that contain collections of songs/tunes and also analyses of specific songs/tunes and categories of folk music.