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Posted By: Desert Dancer
23-Dec-12 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: Review: Best Music Books of 2012
Subject: RE: Review: Best Music Books of 2012
a list from NPR's music staff, which overlaps the above with the David Byrne and John Cage titles. None particularly folkie.
a more "roots" oriented list from Engine 45 includes the Carter family graphic novel, also,
*The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music, by Alan Lomax (Mudcat thread here.)
Their "other notable books" include these:
*The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, by Stephen Wade (Mudcat thread here.)
Saved by Song: A History of Gospel and Christian Music, new revised edition. Don Cusic.
Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music, Douglas Harrison. Illinois, 228 pages.
This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song, Robert Santelli
*Pete Seeger: In His Own Words, Pete Seeger. Selected and edited by Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal (Mudcat thread here.)
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Here's one to add:
*The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, edited by Steve Roud (Mudcat thread here.)
and just came on this one:
Revival: A Folk Music Novel, by Scott Alarik (info here and here)
~ Becky in Tucson