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Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,285 ratings — published 2004
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,687 ratings — published 2001
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,467 ratings — published 2021
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,037 ratings — published 2010
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,093 ratings — published 2015
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States (American Made Music Series)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 29 ratings — published 2012
Folk Song in England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 53 ratings — published 2017
Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Culture, Politics, and Cold War)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 2002
Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.97 — 91 ratings — published 2000
The Mayor of MacDougal Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,877 ratings — published 2005
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Singing from the Floor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 70 ratings — published 2014
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published 1959
The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 12)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 2005
The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.32 — 28 ratings — published 1994
The Folk Singers and the Bureau The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.70 — 169 ratings — published 2020
Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 43 ratings — published 2015
The Land Where the Blues Began (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 877 ratings — published 1993
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,171 ratings — published 1997
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 485 ratings — published 2018
All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 87 ratings — published 2018
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,524 ratings — published 2004
American Roots Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 79 ratings — published 2001
Paul Simon: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.18 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Passing the Music Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.18 — 160 ratings — published 2010
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,634 ratings — published 2009
And a Voice to Sing With (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,248 ratings — published 1989
Which Side Are You On?: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.45 — 33 ratings — published 2005
The Npr Curious Listener's Guide To American Folk Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 2004
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.86 — 482 ratings — published
Seascraper (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,404 ratings — published 2025
Pink Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.41 — 470 ratings — published 2007
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 37 ratings — published 2024
Americana Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 788 ratings — published 2022
Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine (Music in American Life) by Jim Longhi (1997-01-01)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.91 — 580 ratings — published 2005
Country Music: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 442 ratings — published
Living in the Present with John Prine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,015 ratings — published
Shanties From The Seven Seas (Mystic Seaport)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 63 ratings — published 1980
American Ballads and Folk Songs (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 87 ratings — published 1934
Cowboy and Western Songs: A Comprehensive Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1988
The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 1956
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.46 — 13 ratings — published 1965
Strings and Stomp: A journey Through Appalachian Folk Music: Harmonies and Heritage: Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Appalachian Folk Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1937
English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians (1917)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 1917
The Electric Muse Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.77 — 31 ratings — published 1993
Blacks, Whites, and Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.07 — 15 ratings — published
“Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive.”
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“Traditional music is the foundation of what the folk music revival was about—songs of unknown authorship handed down through the generations. I keep returning to these old, classic songs, often bringing them back to find new meaning and fresh interpretations. “Danny Boy,” “The Lark in the Morning,” “Barbara Allen,” “So Early, Early in the Spring,” and “The Gypsy Rover” have lasted for years and will endure for years more. They touch your heart, and for anyone trying to write new and original songs, they stand as an unspoken challenge: make something as good and as timeless as this and you will have won the heart of your listener. You also will have added something to the story of humankind. Traditional songs didn’t just spring from the earth, of course. Somebody somewhere came up with a melody through which to tell a story, and that story-song got passed along. These songs survive in the memory of a culture because they tell stories of universal emotion and experience—of love, heartbreak, mourning, abandonment, victory, and defeat—and because they are so very adaptable to so many times, to so many people. One person would add a verse; another would change a melody a bit. This is what we call the “folk process,” borrowing to fit the time, the person, the incident.”
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