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 | |
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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 |