Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:52 PM Note: this is a PermaThread™, a permanent reference on folk music books controlled by IanC and maintained by Joe Offer. Feel free to post messages below, but be aware that all messages posted in this thread are subject to editing and deletion. Thanks to Ian and to John in Kansas for their hard work in assembling this information. Ian's Website is here (click) -Joe Offer-
A Basic Folk Library
This is a collated list of books suggested in the Mudcat PermaThread of the same name (see below), correct to the thread post of 5 October 2003 at 11:03 AM EDT. Most of the books will be out of print and only available at secondhand or specialist booksellers.
GENERAL BOOKS - Songs and Tunes, Research COUNTRIES - Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hawai'i, Ireland, Man, Scotland, USA, Wales, etc. DANCE - Morris, Social Dance, Sword Dancing etc. PEOPLE - Individuals, Families and Groups from Joan Baez to Cyril Tawney ONLINE RESOURCES - Links to Online Resources Last Updated : 02-08-02 [last Post : 08-Jun-02] Since this is getting to be a rather large piece of work, perhaps it would be appropriate to remind people that you can "search current page" in most web browsers. In IE5, at least, you don't want the "Search" button on the bar at the top. This will try to search the entire www (the web, not the wobblies). Click the "Edit" tag at the top of the screen, and select "Find (On this Page)" on the drop-down. An alternate method is just to key "Ctrl-F", which is the standard mickeysoft shortcut to "Edit-Find. JohnInKansas By the way, I will include all suggestions for books which are individually recommended by people here. Pointers to other sites may be useful, but I reserve the right to decide whether I link to them or not (I will if they are generally good). I'm not about to copy whole chunks of HTML from elsewhere, though. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Subject: Folk Library - Introduction From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:53 PM Where to Look for Books
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ASHMAN, GORDON "The Ironbridge Hornpipe" (??, 19??)
MERRYWEATHER, JAMES and SEATTLE, MAX "Lawrence Leadley, the Fiddler of Helperby" (Dragonfly Music, 1994)
RITCHIE, JEAN (ed) "The Newport Folk Festival Songbook" (New York, Alfred Music, 1965)
ROONEY, JAMES "Bossmen : Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters" (Da Capo Press, 1991) )
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Subject: Folk Library - General From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:54 PM
A Basic Folk Library - General Books
"The Collected Reprints from Sing Out!"
BLOOD, PETER and PATTERSON, ANNIE "Rise Up Singing" (Sing Out! Publications, 19??)
BONI, MARGARET BRADFORD "The Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1947)
CHAPPELL, WILLIAM "Popular Music of the Olden Time" (2 vols) (London, 1855-8)
CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (ed.) "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (Houghton Mifflin, 1882 to 1898, Dover, 1965)
COHEN, JOHN and SEEGER, MIKE "The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book" (Oak Publications, 1964)
FRANK, LYNN "Songs for Swingin' Housemothers" (San Francisco CA, Fearon Publishers, 1963)
GOTTLIEB, ROBERT and KIMBALL, ROBERT "Reading Lyrics" (Pantheon Books, 2000)
KIDSON, FRANK "Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs" (Oxford, Chas. Taphouse & Sons, 1891)
KINSLEY, JAMES (ed) "The New Oxford Book of Ballads" (Oxford University Press, 1969)
LANG, ANDREW "A Collection of Ballads" (London, Chapman and Hall, 1910)
LAWRENCE, VERA BRODSKY "Music for Patriots, Politicians and Presidents" (New York, MacMillan, 1975)
LEACH MacEDWARD (ed) "The Ballad Book" New York, A. S. Barnes & Co, 1955
QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR (ed) "The Oxford Book of Ballads" (Oxford, Clarendon, 1910)
SILVERMAN, JERRY "Folk Song Encyclopedia" (2 vols) (Mel Bay, 19??)
SIMPSON, CLAUDE M. "The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music" (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966)
SPAETH, SIGMUND "Read 'Em and Weep" (New York, Halcyon House, 1926 & 1945)
WRIGHT, F. E. "Songs That Never Grow Old" (New York, Syndicate Publishing, 1909)
A good online bibliography for ballads is The Traditional Ballad Index. Bruce Olson's site here is also invaluable.
BOYES, GEORGINA "The Imagined Village" (Univ. Manchester Press, 1993)
BRONSON, BERTRAND HARRIS "The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads" (Princeton University Press, 1976)
BRONSON, BERTRAND HARRIS "The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" (4 vols) (Princeton University Press , 1959 to 1972)
BRUNNINGS, FLORENCE E. "Folk Song Index" (New York, Garland, 1981)
COHEN, NORM "Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music" (New York, Garland, 1994)
FOWLER, DAVID "A Literary History of the Popular Ballad" (Duke University Press, 1968)
FULD, JAMES J. "The Book of World Famous Music: Classical, Popular and Folk" (New York, Crown, 1966)
HARKER, DAVE "Fakesong" (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1985)
HART, MARY L. et al "The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide" (New York, Garland, 1989)
HENDRICKSON, ROBERT "Mountain Range:A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" (Checkmark, 1997)
HICKERSON, JOE "The Archive of Folk Song: A Bibliography" (Washington D.C., Library of Congress, 1988)
HUSTVEDT, SIGURD, BERNHARD "Ballad Books and Ballad Men" (Harvard Univ. Press, 1930)
LEACH, MacEDWARD and COFFIN, TRISTRAM P. (eds) "The Critics and the Ballad" (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1961)
MILLER, TERRY E. "Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide" (New York, Garland, 1986)
PORTER, JAMES "The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Research and Information Guide" (New York, Garland, 1989)
RICHMOND, W. EDSON "Ballad Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography" (New York, Garland, 1989)
ROSENBERG, NEIL (ed) "Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1993)
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Subject: Folk Library - Countries From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:55 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Countries
Australia
NOTE: A bibliography of Australian Folk Songs here.
EDWARDS, RON "The Big Book of Australian Folk Song" (Rigby, 1976)
SCOTT, BILL "The Complete Book of Australian Folk Lore" (Sydney, Ure Smith, 1976)
BARBEAU, MARIUS "Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec" (Rutgers, The State University, 1962)
FOWKE, EDITH "Folksongs of Quebec" (2 vols) (?Waterloo Music, 19??)
FOWKE, EDITH "Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario" (???, 19??)
FOWKE, EDITH and JOHNSON, RICHARD "Folksongs of Canada" (2 vols) (Waterloo Music, 1975)
FOWKE, EDITH "Folklore of Canada" (M & S Pub., 1976)
IVES, EDWARD D. ("SANDY") "Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs From Prince Edward Island" (Inst. Island Studies, 1999)
IVES, EDWARD D. ("SANDY") "Folksongs of New Brunswick" (Fredericton, Goose Lane Edition, 1989)
PEACOCK, KENNETH "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports" (Nat. Mus. Canada, 1965)
BELL, ROBERT (ed) "Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England" (London, Parker, 1857)
BRUCE, J. COLLINGWOON and STOKOE, JOHN (eds) "Northumbrian Minstrelsy" (Newcastle, Soc. Antiquaries, 1882)
D'URFEY, THOMAS "Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy" (6 vols) (London, Playford, 1698-1720)
JONES, LEWIS (ed) "Sweet Sussex: Folk songs from the Broadwood collections" (Sutton Coldfield, Ferret Publications, 1995)
KARPELES, MAUD (ed) "The Crystal Spring : English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1975)
KNOWLES, JAMIE (ed) "A Northern Lass: Traditional Dance Music of North-West England" ()
LLOYD, A. L. "Folk Song in England" (Granada, 1975)
MACKAY, CHARLES (ed) "Cavalier Songs & Ballads of England 1642-84" (London, 1863)
O'SHAUGHNESSY, PATRICK "Twenty-One Lincolnshire Folk Songs" (Oxford University Press 1967)
PALMER, ROY (ed) "BUSHES AND BRIARS - Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams" (Dent, 1983)
PURSLOW, FRANK (ed) "Marrow Bones" (EFDSS Publications, 1965)
SEDLEY, STEPHEN (ed) "The Seeds of Love" (London, Essex Music, 1967)
SHARP, CECIL J. (ed) "One Hundred English Folksongs" (******, 1916)
STEWART, R. J. "Where is St. George? Pagan Imagery in English Folksong" (Bradford-on-Avon, Moonraker, 1977)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH and LLOYD, A. L. "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" (Penguin, 1975)
NOTE: Thanks especially to Wolfgang and Wilfried for this section. Please also see the Mudcat thread German Folk Music.
"Das Lagerliederbuch, Lieder gesungen, gesammelt und geschrieben im Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen" (Pläne Verlag, 1980)
BREUER, H. "Der Zupfgeigenhansl : Das Liederbuch der Wandervögel" (Lpz, Friedrich Hofmeister, 1908)
BUHMANN, H. and HAESELER, H. P. "Das kleine dicke Liederbuch" Little Thick Songbook (3rd ed., 1983)
ERK, LUDWIG AND BÖHME, FRANZ M. "Deutscher Liederhort" (3 Vols) (Leipzig, 1893/4)
KLUSEN, E. "Deutsche Lieder" (German songs) (Insel Verlag, 1980)
KRÖHER, HEIN and OSS "Das sind unsere Lieder" These are Our Songs (Frankfurt am Main, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1977)
SCHILLING, K. and KÖNIG, H. "Der Turm" The Tower (Novelle, Wiesbaden, 1957)
SCHMECKENBECKER, E. and FRIZ, T. "Es wollt' ein Bauer früh aufstehn" a farmer wanted to rise early (Pläne Verlag, 1978)
SCHMIDT, H. W. "Uns geht die Sonne nicht unter, Lieder der Hitler Jugend" (Koln, Tonger, 1934)
STEINITZ, W. "Der grosse Steinitz" (2 Vols) (East-Berlin, 1955)
STERN, A. "Lieder gegen den Tritt" Songs Against Cadence (Asso Verlag, 1960)
VON ARNIM, L. and BRENTANO, C. "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" The Boy's Magic Horn (3 vols) (Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1806-8)
NOTE: Hawai'i used to be a kingdom but was taken over by USA. There are many folk, cowboy and other songs that are being collected.
ELBERT, SAMUEL H. and NOELANI, MAHOE "Na Mele o Hawai'i Nei, 101 Hawaiian Songs" (Honolulu, Univ Hawai'i Press, 1970)
PUKUI, MARY K. and KORN, ALFONS L. "The Echo of Our Song, Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians" (Univ. Hawai'i Press, 1973)
NOTE: Resources on Irish Singing here and here.
BEHAN, DOMINIC "Ireland Sings" (London, Essex Music, 1965)
BREATHNACH, BREANDAN "Folk Music and Dances of Ireland" (Dublin, Mercier Press, 1977. )
BULMER, DAVE and SHARPLEY, NEIL "Music of Ireland" (4 vols) (Louth Lincs., Celtic Music, 1974-1978)
CARSON, CIARAN "Last Night's Fun" (Pimlico, 19??)
COYNE, DECLAN "The Lilting Sons of Country Folk" (Culleenirwan, Dha Lon Promotions, 2000)
CROKER, T. CROFTON (ed) "Popular Songs, Illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland" (4 vols) (London, Percy Society, 1845-7)
DUFFY, CHARLES GAVAN (ed) "The Spirit of The Nation" (Dublin, The Nation, 1843)
FAOLAIN, TURLOUGH "Blood On the Harp"
GALVIN, PATRICK "Irish Songs of Resistance (1169-1923)" (London, Oak, 1962)
HAMMOND, DAVID "Songs of Belfast" (Skerries Co. Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1978)
HARDIMAN, JAMES (ed) "Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland" (2 vols) (London,Robins, 1831)
HARTE, FRANK "Songs of Dublin" (Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1978)
HEALY, JAMES N. "The Second Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1964)
HUNTINGTON, GAIL and HERMANN, LANNI "Sam Henry's Songs of The People" (Moulden, 19??)
JOLLIFFEE, MAUREEN "The Third Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1970)
LOESBERG, JOHN (ed) "Folksongs and ballads popular in Ireland" (4 vols) (Ossian, 19??)
MCDONNEL, JOHN (ed) "Songs of Struggle and Protest" (Skerries, Gilbert Dalton, 1979)
MAC MATHÚNA, SÉAMUS "Traditional Songs and Singers" (2nd ed) (Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, 1993)
MASON, REDFERN "The Song Lore of Ireland: Erin's Story In Music and Verse" (New York, Baker and Taylor, 1911)
MUSIC SALES CORPORATION (author) "Soodlums Irish Ballad Book" (Oak Publications Co, 1982)
Ó BÁOILL, SEÁN "The Irish Song Tradition" (Cork, Ossian, 1976)
Ó LOCHLAINN, COLM "The Complete Irish Street Ballads" (London, Pan Books, 1984)
O'LOCHLAINN, COLM "Irish Street Ballads" (The Three Candles, 1965)
O'KEEFFE, DANIEL D. "The First Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1955)
O'NEILL FRANCIS "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" (******, 1903)
O'SULLIVAN, DONAL "Songs of The Irish" (Dublin, Mercier Press, 1981)
ÓG, SEÁN and Ó BÁOILL, MÁNUS "Ceolta Gael" (2 vols) (Baile Átha Cliath, 1994)
PETRIE, GEORGE "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland" (Dublin, 1855)
SHIELDS, HUGH "Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folksinging in North Derry" (Blackstaff Press, 1981)
TUNNEY, PADDY "The Stone Fiddle: My Way to Traditional Song" (Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1979)
VALLELEY, FINTAN "The Companion to Irish Traditional Music" (Cork University Press, 1999)
WALLIS, GEOFF and WILSON, SUE "The Rough Guide to Irish Music" (Rough Guides, 2001)
ZIMMERMAN, GEORGES-DENIS "Songs of Irish Rebellion" (Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1967)
NOTE: The Manx Heritage Site here contains a number of useful Manx resources (including some used below).
BROADBENT, S. K. (ed) "The Manx Quarterly" (Isle of Man Examiner, 1907-1923)
CLAGUE, JOHN "Cooinaghtyn Manninagh - Manx Reminiscences" (Castletown IoM, Backwell, 1911)
GILL, W. H. (ed) "Manx National Songs with English Words" (Boosey and Co., 1896)
HARRISON, WILLIAM (ed) "Mona Miscellany" (Douglas IoM, The Manx Society, 1873)
MOORE, ARTHUR W. (ed) "Manx Ballads and Music" (Douglas IoM, Johnson, 1896)
WORLD MANX ASSOCIATION "Ellan Vannin" (World Manx Association, 1923-1928)
NOTE: A bibliography of Scots Gaelic music here.
BROADWOOD, LUCY E. (ed) and TOLMIE, FRANCES (coll) "105 Songs of Occupation from the Western Isles" (Lampeter, 1997)
BRANDER, MICHAEL "Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads" (Clarkson N. Potter, 1975)
KENNEDY-FRASER, MARJORY "Songs of The Hebrides" (3 vols) (London, Boosey, 1909-21)
LOESBERG, JOHN "Traditional Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland" (3 vols) (Ossian, 19??)
ORD, JOHN "Bothy Songs and Ballads" (John Donald, 1990)
SHULDMAN-SHAW, PATRICK et al "The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection" (8 vols) (Mercat Press, 19??-1988)
BONI, MARGARET BRADFORD (ed) "The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs" (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1952)
CHAPPLE,JOE MITCHELL "Heart Songs" (National Magazine & Chapple Publishing Co., 1909)
EMRICH, DUNCAN "American folk poetry: an anthology" (Boston; Toronto, Little Brown, 1974)
GILBERT, DOUGLAS "Lost Chords: The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs" (Doubleday Dorand, 1942)
KENNEDY, CHARLES O'BRIEN (ed) "A Treasury of American Ballads Gay, Naughty, and Classic" (New York, McBride, 1954)
LAWS, G. MALCOLM Jr. "American Balladry from British Broadsides" (******, 1957)
LAWS, G. MALCOLM Jr. "Native American Balladry" (******, 1964)
LOMAX, ALAN "The Folk Songs Of North America" (Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1960)
LOMAX, JOHN A. and ALAN "American Ballads and Folk Songs" (MacMillan Co., 1934)
MALONE, BILL C and STRICKLIN, DAVID "Southern Music, American Music" (University of Kentucky Press, 1979)
SANDBURG, CARL "The American Songbag" (Harvest/HBJ Books, 1957)
SANDBURG, CARL "The New American Songbook" (******, ****)
SCOTT, JOHN ANTHONY "The Ballad of America" (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1967)
SEEGER, RUTH CRAWFORD "American Folk Songs for Christmas" (Garden City, N.Y, Doubleday, 1953)
WARNER, ANNE (ed) "Traditional American Folksongs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection" (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1984)
BAYARD, SAMUEL P. (ed) "Hill Country Tunes: Instrumental Folk Music of SW Pennsylvania" (American Folklore Society, 1944)
BELDEN H. M. (ed) "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" (U of Mo Press, 1940)
BROWN, FRANK C. "The Frank C. Brown collection" (not published)
CAZDEN, NORMAN et al (eds) "Folk Songs of The Catskills" (Univ New York, 1958)
COX, JOHN HARRINGTON "Folk-Songs of the South" (Gretna, Pelican, 1998)
FLANDERS, HELEN HARTNESS
LINGENFELTER, Richard E et al "Songs of the American West" (Univ. California Press, 1968)
LINSCOTT, ELOISE HUBBARD "Folk Songs of Old New England" (MacMillan, 1939)
McNEILL, W. K. "Southern Folk Ballads" (2 vols) (August House, 1987-8
McNEILL, W. K. "Southern Mountain Folksongs: Traditional Songs from the Appalachians and the Ozarks" (August House, 1992)
MORRIS, ALTON C. "Folksongs of Florida" (Univ. of Florida Press, 1990)
RANDOLPH, VANCE "Ozark Folksongs" (4 vols) (Columbia, Missouri, 1946-1950)
RANDOLPH, VANCE "Roll Me In Your Arms" (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992) ROHRBURG, LYNN (ed) "Songs of All Time" (Cooperative Recreation Service, 1946)
THOMAS, JEAN "Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky" (New York, Henry Holt, 1939)
Countries - USA / UK / Ireland
Lesley's Contemplator site has a useful bibliography here.
WILGUS D. K. "Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898" (Rutgers University Press, 1959)
NOTE: The Celfyddydau Mari Arts Archive of traditional arts material from South Wales here.
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE "Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg" (Welsh Folk Song Society, 1988)
KINNEY, PHYLLIS and EVANS, MEREDYDD "Canu'r Cymry: Detholiad o Ganeuon Gwerin" (2 vols) (Welsh Folk Song Society, 1984)
SAER, D. ROY (ed) "Caneuon Llafar Gwlad" (2 vols) (National Museum of Wales, 1974,1994)
DAVIES, J. GLYNN "Fflat Huw Puw a cherddi eraill" (Gwasg Gomer, 1992)
HAMILTON, ALEX "Blodau'r Grug: 100 o Alawon Dawnsio Gwerin Poblogaidd Cymru" (Welsh Folk Dance Society 1992)
Countries - Wales / Scotland / Ireland / England
KENNEDY, PETER (ed) "Folksongs of Britain and Ireland" (London, Cassell, 1975)
MILNER, DAN and KAPLAN, PAUL "A Bonnie Bunch of Roses: Songs of England, Ireland and Scotland" (Oak Publications, 19??)
PALMER, ROY "A Book of British Ballads" (Llanerch, 1998)
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Subject: Folk Library - Dance From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 05:25 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Dance
Morris
NOTE: The Morris Ring's official bibliography is available here and there is another by Tom Keays here.
FORREST, JOHN "The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750" (University of Toronto Press, 1999)
NOTE: A history of Western Social Dance with bibliography here. Includes an online copy of Arbeau's "Orchesographie"
BARNES, PETER "The Barnes Book of English Country Dance Tunes" (Canis Publishing, 1986)
RAVEN, MIKE "1000 English Country Dance Tunes" ()
TOWNSEND, A. DAVE "A First Collection of English Country Dance Tunes" (Oxford, Ferret Music, 1982)
NOTE: There is a very full bibliography of Sword Dancing books here and a selected one here.
ALLSOPP, IVOR "Longsword Dances from Traditional and Manuscript Sources" (Northern Harmony, 1996)
SHARP, CECIL J. "The Sword Dances of Northern England" (3 vols) (London, Novello, 1911-1913)
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Subject: Folk Library - Genres From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 05:34 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Genres
Bawdy
LEGMAN, GERSHON "No Laughing Matter" (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1968)
LOGSDON, GUY (ed) "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995)
RANDOLPH, VANCE "Roll Me In Your Arms" (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992)
ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS et al "Slave Songs of the United States" (New York, Simpson, 1867)
COURLANDER, HAROLD "Negro Folk Music U.S.A." (Dover, 1992)
DETT, ROBERT NATHANIEL (ed) "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro As Sung at Hampton Institute" (Hampton Institute Press, 1927)
EPSTEIN, DENA J. "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, Black Music to the Civil War" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1977)
SEWARD, THEODORE F. (ed) "Jubilee Songs As Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University" (New York: Bigelow and Main., 1872)
WORK, JOHN W. "American Negro Songs" (Crown, 1940)
NOTE: There are useful bibliographies of The Blues here and here.
ALYN GLEN "I Say For Me a Parable" (New York, Da Capo, 1993)
BASTIN, BRUCE "Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995)
BOOTH, STANLEY "Rhythm Oil" (Pantheon, 1991)
BROOKS, LONNIE "Blues For Dummies"Foster City CA, IDG Books Worldwide, 19??
CALT, STEPHEN "I'd Rather be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues" (New York, Da Capo, 1994)
CALT, STEPHEN and WARDLOW, GAYLE DEAN "King of the Delta Blues: Charlie Patton" (Newton Rock Chapel Press, 1988)
COHN, LAWRENCE (ed) "Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians" (Abbeville Press, 1993)
COOK, BRUCE "Listen to the Blues" (New York, Da Capo, 1995)
EVANS, DAVID "Big Road Blues: Tradition & Creativity in the Folk Blues" (Da Capo Press, 1982)
FINN, JULIO "The Bluesman: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas" (London, Quartet, 1986)
GODRICH, JOHN and DIXON, ROBERT M. W. "Recording The Blues" (Stein and Day, 1970)
GROSSMAN, STEFAN "Rev. Gary Davis/Blues Guitar" (Oak Publications, 1997)
HARRISON, DAVID "The World of Blues" (Studio Editions, London, 1995)
LOMAX, ALAN "The Land Where the Blues Began" (Dell, 1993)
OLIVER, PAUL "Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues" (2nd ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
OLIVER, PAUL et al "Yonder Comes the Blues" (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
ONDAATJE, MICHAEL "Coming Through Slaughter" (Norton First Edition, 1976)
PALMER, ROBERT "Deep Blues" (New York, Viking Press, 1981)
RUSSELL, TONY "Blacks, Whites and Blues" (New York, Stein & Day, 1970)
RUSSELL, TONY "The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray" (Harper Collins, 1997)
SHIPTON, RUSS "The Complete Blues and Ragtime Guitar Player" (****, 19??)
TITON, JEFF TODD "Early Downhome Blues: A Musical & Cultural Analysis" (2nd ed.) (Univ. North Carolina, 1994)
WARDLOW, G.D. "Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching For the Blues" (San Francisco, Miller Freeman, 1998)
HINTON, Brian "Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville" (Sanctuary, 2000)
NOTE: There is a useful Cowboy bibliography here and a booklist by Frank Staplin here.
AXELROD, ALAN and FOX, DAN "Songs Of The Wild West" (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991)
BIG 3 MUSIC CORP. "American Cowboy Songs" (New York, New York, 19??)
CANNON, HAL (ed) "Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering" (******, 1985)
FIFE, AUSTIN E. and ALTA S. "Cowboy And Western Songs" (New York, Clarkson and Potter, 1969)
LARKIN, MARGARET "Singing Cowboy, a Book of Western Songs" (Knopf, 1931)
LEE, KATIE "Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle" (Flagstaff Arizona, Northland Press, 1976)
LINGENFELTER, RICHARD E. et al "Songs of the American West" (Univ of California Press, 1968)
LOGSDON, GUY (ed) "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995)
LOMAX, JOHN A. and ALAN "Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads"(MacMillan Co., 1938)
OHRLIN, GLEN and GREEN, ARLIN "The Hell-Bound Train" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1989)
SILBER, IRWIN and ROBINSON, EARL (eds) "Songs of the Great American West" (New York, MacMillan, 1967)
THORP, N. HOWARD (JACK) "Songs of the Cowboys" (New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1966)
TINSLEY, JIM BOB "He Was Singin' This Song" (Univ. of Florida, 1981)
TINSLEY, JIM BOB "For a Cowboy Has to Sing" (Univ. Central Florida Press, 1991)
SHAY, FRANK "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions: Songs and Ballads of Conviviality" (Macaulay, 1927)
GOODWIN, GEORGE (Ed.) "Song Dex Treasury of Humorous and Nostalgic Songs" (Song Dex Inc., 1956)
Genres - Hymns and Religious Songs
NOTE: For more resources, see the Religion and Music Resource. For John Newton's hymns, see the Olney Hymns site.
The OREMUS searchable Online Hymnal is here.
The Cyber Hymnal is here.
DEARMER, PERCY and VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH "The English Hymnal" (******, 1906)
MONK, WILLIAM HENRY (ed.) "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (London, William Cloves and Sons, 1861)
SANKEY, IRA "Sacred Songs and Solos" (London, Morgan and Scott, 1891)
SHELDON, JOHN "The Quaker Songbook" (Stainer and Bell, 1981)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH and DEARMER, PERCY "Songs of Praise" (London, Oxford University Press, 1936)
Genres - Military and Soldier Songs
NOTE: There is a useful bibliography here.
DALLAS, KARL "The Cruel Wars" (London, Wolfe Publishing, 1972)
DOLPH, EDWARD ARTHUR and EGNER, PHILIP "Sound Off! - Soldier Songs from Yankee Doodle to Parley Voo" (New York, Cosmopolitan, 1929)
HOPKINS, ANTHONY "Songs from the Front & Rear" (Edmonton, Hurtig, 1979)
WARD-JACKSON, C H and LUCAS, LEIGHTON "Airman's Song Book" (Sylvan Press, 1945)
NOTE: Some information on Mormon Folklore from Utah here.
CHEYNEY, THOMAS E. (ed) "Mormon Songs From the Rocky Mountains" (Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 1968)
Genres - Shanties, Sea Songs and Work Songs
NOTE: There is a useful bibliography here and a collection of Shanties & Sea Songs here.
ABRAHAMS, ROGER D. "Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore" (American Folklore Society, 1974)
COLCORD, JOANNA C. "Songs of American Sailormen" (New York, Norton, 1938)
CREIGHTON, HELEN "Maritime Folk Songs" (Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1961)
DOERFLINGER, WILLIAM MAINE "Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman" (New York, 1951)
FOWKE, EDITH FULTON "Lumbering Songs from the North Woods" (Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1970)
HUGILL, STAN "Shanties from the Seven Seas" (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969)
PALMER, ROY (ed.) "The Oxford Book of Sea Songs" (Oxford University Press, 1986)
RICKABY, FRANZ "Ballads & Songs of the Shanty-Boy" (Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1926)
TERRY, RICHARD RUNCIMAN "The Shanty Book Part 1" (London, Curwen, 1921)
WALTON, IVAN and GRIMM, JOE "Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors" (Detroit,Wayne State University Press, 2002)
WHALL, W. B. "Sea Songs and Shanties" (Brown, Ferguson, 1910)
NOTE: There are a number of online Socialist Songbooks, including Liberator, Raised Voices, Singing of Struggle, The Socialist Songbook and Union Songs
COLLINS, MAL et al "The Big Red Songbook" (Pluto Press, 1977)
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD "The IWW Little Red Songbook" (Columbia, SC., Harbinger, 1995)
SHEFFIELD SOCIALIST CHOIR "With One Voice" (Privately published, 19??)
NOTE: There is a short bibliography here and an interesting article here.
ALLEN W., WARE C., and GARRISON L. "Slave Songs of The United States" (New York, Simpson, 1867)
CONE, JAMES H. "The Spirituals and the Blues" (New York, Orbis Books, 2000)
CRUZ, JOHN "Culture On The Margins" (Univ Princetown, 1999)
DIXON, CHRISTA K. "Negro Spirituals: from Bible to Folksong" (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1976)
DOBIE, J. FRANK "Follow de Drinkin' Gourd" (Texas Folklore Society, 1928)
EPSTEIN, DENA J. "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War" (Univ Illinois Press, 1977)
FISHER, M. M. "Negro Slave Songs in the United States" (Russell & Russell, 1968)
HEILBUT, ANTHONY "The Gospel Sound - Good News and Bad Times" (NY, Limelight Editions, 1971)
JACKSON, GEORGE PULLEN "White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands" (Dover Press, 1965)
JOHNSON, J. W. and JOHNSON J. R. "American Negro Spirituals" (New York, DaCapo Press, 1989)
ROACH, HILDRED "Black American Music: Past And Present" (2 vols) (Boston Ma, Crescendo Publishing Co, 1973)
SOUTHERN, EILEEN "The Music Of Black Americans: A History" (New York, W.W.Norton & Co, 1971)
NOTE: There is a useful bibliography of Yiddish Song here.
SILVERMAN, JERRY "The Yiddish Songbook" (New York, Stein and Day, 1982)
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Subject: Folk Library - People From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jul 01 - 08:27 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Individuals, Families and Groups
Joan Baez
BAEZ, JOAN "The Joan Baez Songbook" (New York, Ryerson Music Publishers, 1964)
NOTE: Jim Dixon recommended the whole range of books published by Albert E. Brumley and Sons. Brumley posed a bit of a problem of categorisation as, though he is a publisher, he seems to have also written a number of Gospel Songs such as "I'll Fly Away" and "Turn Your Radio On". Also the books would have come under a number of headings (Gospel, General, Americal), and so been dispersed. Because of this, Albert E. Brumley has his own place here. Notes for individual books are taken from the website, except where noted. Joe Offer has volunteered the general review below.
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "All Day Singin' & Dinner on the Ground" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "America's Memory Valley" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Best Of Albert E. Brumley" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Golden Years of Gospel Singing" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Great Inspirational Songs" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Lamplitin' Songs & Ballads" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Olde Time Camp Meetin' Songs" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Radio Favorites" (Brumley, 19**)
BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Songs of the Pioneers" (3 vols) (Brumley, 19**)
NOTE: The official Robert Burns site here has his complete works electronically (no melodies).
BURNS, ROBERT and ROY G. ROSS "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" (Univ. South Carolina, 1999)
HOVEY, SERGE "The Robert Burns Song Book, Volume 1" (Mel Bay, 1997)
KINSLEY, JAMES "Burns: Poems and Songs" (Oxford University Press, 1971) James Kinsley's book is a particularly useful example of a book of Burns' songs with melodies, and has been regularly reprinted.
NOTE: A songbook of "Original Carter Family Songs" is Online here.
LEONARD, HAL "The Original Carter Family" (Peer International, 1980)
SOKOLOV, FRED "The Carter Family Collection" (Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., 1999)
IVES, EDWARD ("SANDY") ET AL "Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs" (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1964)
NOTE: The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives here has a vast amount of information. The Mudcat biography of Woody is here.
GUTHRIE, WOODY "Bound For Glory" (New York, E. P. Dutton, 1968)
GUTHRIE, WOODY et al "Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People" (Oak Publications, 1967)
KLEIN, JOE "Woody Guthrie : A Life" (Delta, 1999)
NOTE: See also Fairport Convention.
HUTCHINGS, ASHLEY "A Little Music" (London, Island Music, 1976)
ASCH, MOSES and LOMAX, ALAN "The Leadbelly Songbook" (New York, Oak Publications, 1962)
MOORE, CHRISTY "One Voice: My Life in Song" (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000)
NOTE: Lesley's biography of Thomas Moore is here and there is another good page, here.
MOORE, THOMAS "Irish Melodies" (10 vols) (Various publishers, originally 1808-1836)
NOTE: There is a biography of Chief O'Neill here.
CAROLAN, NICHOLAS "A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago" (Ossian, 1997)
O'NEILL FRANCIS "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" (******, 1903)
NOTE: Peggy Seeger's website is here.
SEEGER, PEGGY "The Peggy Seeger Songbook" (Oak Publications, 19??)
NOTE: There are Jimmy Shand obituaries online at Accordions.Com and The Stage.
CAMERON, IAN and SHEPHERD, ROBBIE "The Jimmy Shand Story" (Scottish Cultural Press, 1998)
NOTE: There is a discography with some biographical details here.
TAWNEY, CYRIL "Grey Funnel Lines: traditional song & verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970" (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)
Last Updated : 05-10-2003 16:30 |
Subject: Folk Library - Instruments From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jul 01 - 10:03 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Instruments
Appalachian Dulcimer
Instruments - Appalachian Dulcimer
NOTE: Further information about the instrument is available here. See also this article on Contemporary Mountain Dulcimers.
BRYANT, LARKIN "Larkin's Dulcimer Book" (Riverlark Music, 19??)
MAJOR, JAMES "The Dulcimer Chord Encyclopedia" (Mel Bay, 1993)
REILLY, LUCILLE "Striking Out ... And Winning" (Shadrach Productions, 1992)
RITCHIE, JEAN "The Dulcimer Book" (Oak Publications, 1963)
Instruments - Banjo (5 String)
NOTE: A bibliography of The Banjo's history is available here and here is Stuart Tod's Banjo Page. There is another good 5-string bibliography here.
BURKE, JOHN "John Burke's Book of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo" (Amsco, 1968)
LINN, KAREN "That half-barbaric twang: the banjo in American popular culture" (Urbana, Univ. Illinois Press, 1994)
MULLER, ERIC and KOEHLER, BARBARA "Frailing the 5-String Banjo: An Instruction Manual" (Mel Bay, 1973)
WEBB, ROBERT LLOYD (comp) "Ring the banjar: the banjo in America from folklore to factory" (MIT Museum, 1984)
SULLIVAN, ANTHONY "Sully's Irish Banjo Book" (Cork, Ossian Publications, 1988)
Instruments - Concertina (Anglo-German)
NOTE: There is a useful little bibliography for Anglo-German and English Concertinas here.
LEVY, BERTRAM "The Anglo Concertina Demystified" (New York, Front Hall Enterprises, 19??) Instruments - Fiddle
NOTE: Useful fiddle sites include Fiddler Magazine here and The Hardanger Fiddle Associatiation of America here.
COOPER, PETER "the Complete Irish Fiddle player" (Mel Bay, 1998)
KAUFMAN, ALAN "Beginning Old Time Fiddle" (New York, Oak, 1997)
WILLIAMSON, ROBIN "English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes" (New York, Oak, 1976)
NOTE: Further information about the instrument is available at The Online Guitar Archive OLGA.
DENYER, RALPH and SUMMERS, ANDY "The Guitar Manual" (Knopf, 1992) McQUAID, SARAH "The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book" (Ossian Publications, 1996)
SEEGER, PETE and LESTER, JULIUS "The Folk Singer's Guide to the 12 String guitar, as played by Leadbelly" (Oak Publications, 1965)
SILVERMAN, JERRY "A Guitarist's Treasury of Song" (Mel Bay, 1995)
SILVERMAN,JERRY "Beginning the folk guitar; an instruction manual" (2 vols) (Oak, 1964)
NOTE: The Mandolin Page is here and The Bluegrass Mandolin HomePage is here. There is a Mandolin Chord page here.
NOTE: There is a useful Melodeon page here.
MALLINSON, DAVID "Mally's Melodeon Methods: D/G System Absolute Beginners" (Mallinson, 19??)
NOTE: A useful online Tin Whistle guide is the Ceolas Penny Whistle Guide.
COTTER, GERALDINE "Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor" (Ossian, 1997)
JORDAN, EAMONN "Whistle and Sing" (2 vols) (****, 19??)
MCCASKILL, MIZZY and GILLIAM, DONA "The Complete Irish Tin Whistle Book" (Mel Bay, 1996)
MCCULLOUGH, L. E. "The Complete Tinwhistle Tutor" (Pittsburgh, PA, Silver Spear Publications, 1976)
MAGUIRE, TOM "The Tin Whistle Book" (Music Sales Corp., 1997)
OCHS, BILL "The Clarke Tin Whistle Book" (Pennywhistle Press, 19??)
WILLIAMSON, ROBIN "The Penny Whistle Book" (Music Sales Corporation, 1977)
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Subject: Folk Library - Subjects From: IanC Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:24 AM
A Basic Folk Library - Subjects
Carols and Christmas
Subject - Carols and Christmas
NOTE: There is a useful reference for carols here.
DEARMER, PERCY et al (eds) "The Oxford Book of Carols" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1928)
EHRET, WALTER and EVANS, GEORGE "The International Book of Christmas Carols" (Walton Music, 1980)
KEYTE, HUGH et al (eds) "The New Oxford Book of Carols" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
LANGSTRAFF, NANCY and JOHN "The Christmas Revels Songbook" (Revels Inc., 1985)
POSTON, ELIZABETH "The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols" (Penguin Books, 1979)
NOTE: There is a useful introductory article on Folklore here.
FRAZER, JAMES GEORGE, SIR "The Golden Bough" (New York, Macmillan, 1922)
LEACH, MARIA "Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, & Legend" (Harper Row, 1972)
NOTE: There is a useful article on Folk Tales by Doug Lipman - here and a comprehensive online resource here.
JACOBS, JOSEPH "English Fairy Tales" (******, 1890)
THOMPSON, STITH "The Folktale" (8 vols) (New York, Dryden Press, 1951)
Subject - Gypsy Tradition (poems, speech, songs)
NOTE: There is a Gypsy bibliography here.
COUGHLAN, TIM "Now Shoon the Romano Gillie" (Univ. Wales, 2001)
GREAVES, C. DESMOND "The Easter Rising in Song & Ballad" (London, Kahn and Averill, 1980)
IVES, EDWARD ("SANDY") "The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1997)
MURPHY, SEAN "The Mystery of Molly Malone" (Dublin, 1992)
SCHEIPS, PAUL "Hold the Fort!" (Smithsonian, 1971)
GREEN, ARCHIE "Only A Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1972)
LLOYD, A. L. (ed) "Come All Ye Bold Miners" (Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1952; revised 1978)
BURT, OLIVE WOOLLEY "American Murder Ballads and their Stories" (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1958)
OWSTON, CHARLES E. "Murder, Betrayal and Death: Observations on Traditional Ballads" (Self published, 1999)
Subject - Nursery Rhymes, Childrens' Songs and Games
NOTE: There is an interesting collection of early Nursery Rhymes here.
BUTTERWORTH, NICK "The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes" (Puffin, 1995)
LANG, ANDREW and BROOKE, L. LESLIE "The Nursery Rhyme Book" (London, Warne, 1898)
MEEK, BILL "Moon Penny" (Cork, Ossian, 19??)
O'BOYLE, CARMEL "Cut the Loaf: Irish Children's Songs" (Mercier Press, 1997)
OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959)
OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" (Oxford Univ. Press, 2nd ed.1997)
OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Singing Game" (Oxford University Press, 1985)
FRANK, STUART "The Book Of Pirate Songs" (Sharon, Mass., Kendall Whaling Museum, 1998)
CHAPPLE, JOE MITCHELL (ed) "Heart Throbs" (The Chapple Publishing Co., 1905)
NOTE: There is a bibliography containing most books about trains and railroads here.
COHEN, NORM "The Long Steel Rail" (Univ. Illinois Press, 2000)
LYLE, KATIE LETCHER "Scalded to Death by the Steam" (Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 19??)
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Subject: Folk Library - Online Resources From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Jul 01 - 10:46 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Online Resources
Alphabetical pages for online Biographies, Song and Tune Sites, Performers' Sites and Publishers' Sites can be accessed by clicking the appropriate link.
Online Resources - Articles
Cecil Sharp In America
Online Resources - Bibliographies
A Traditional Music Library
Appalachian Women and Traditional Music (resource)
EFDSS Folksong Bibliography
EFDSS Morris Dancing Bibliography
The Electric Book Company
Folklore and Society Series
David Herron's Chapbook
Irish Music - Old Books
Music In American Life Series
New College of California Guide to E-Texts
Sources for Printed Music and Song Lyrics
The Scottish Folklore Page
Women of Appalachia - Resources
Online Resources - Book Review Sites
Green Man Reviews
Michael Raven's Songbooks
Online Resources - Collections
American Folklife Centre (Library of Congress) Collections
British and Irish Authors on The Web
Women of Appalachia - resources
Frank C. Brown Collection
Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection
The Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco
Village Music Project
Online Resources - Historical Information
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
History of Hymns Archive
WPA Life Histories Project
Online Resources - Miscellaneous
A Million Lives - Biography Resource
Canadian Journal For Traditional Music
CDSS
Finding Songs in Songbooks & Anthologies: A Users’ Guide
Folklib Index
Leonards
More Music
Music 1 records search
Pro Music Find record search
The Radio Ballads review
Song Notes: A Companion to the Old Town School of Folk Music
Swinburne (1866) Poems and Ballads
Traditional MP3s
WFMA (World Folk Music Association)
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Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Sep 01 - 02:38 PM Please remember that this is a PermaThread. The original "Folk Library" thread is here (click), and might be a better place for discussion. In most of the PermaThreads, we ask people to submit suggestions but expect that their messages will be incorporated into the main work and deleted. There's some really good stuff here that I don't want to delete, but I may have to. We try to keep the PermaThreads short so they'll load in reasonable time. Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: IanC Date: 04 Mar 02 - 12:19 PM Hi folks, I'm now back to a more active role, so within a week or so I should be able to start updating the library again. Just one note, aimed a little at Dicho's post above. The Folk Library is not exhaustive and the rule is that it contains ONLY books etc. specifically recommended by mudcatters (this includes me). If I find that an interesting section is light, I have usually worked on it by asking people to contribute from other relevant threads. I'll include Dicho's stuff above, but what he is suggesting also affects the categorisation. If anyone can supply a spirituals category which is more appropriate then please give it to. The place to do it is here.
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Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Folkiedave Date: 25 Apr 03 - 05:14 AM I have many of these for sale See my website - soon to be updated. ALso many old records on vinyl Topic especially. Dave Eyre www.collectorsfolk.co.uk |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: GUEST Date: 05 Oct 03 - 11:05 AM *** ALL MESSAGES TO HERE HAVE NOW BEEN "HARVESTED". WHEN I'VE CHECKED THE SOURCES THE LIBRARY WILL BE UPDATED *** Cheers! Ian |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Oct 03 - 07:33 PM I copied everything from Ian's site today, and posted updates above. Nice work, Ian. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: IanC Date: 16 Oct 03 - 08:12 AM Thanks, Joe, for posting the updated version. Everything looks fine. I've just been able to check all the links here, and it seems as though up to 20% of them are broken or at least bent. Looks like my next project will be to renew, replace or destroy all the non-working links. Any further contributions are always very welcome as well ... with as much of information (publisher, dates etc.) as you are able to provide (I always try to check the accuracy), and a short review would be nice. :-) Ian Thanks |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Jan 04 - 02:45 AM Thread #66115 Message #1094617 Posted By: Stewie 16-Jan-04 - 10:09 PM Thread Name: 'Folk-Songs of America' - online reissue Subject: 'Folk-Songs of America' - online reissue
I don't think this has been mentioned in the forum. Someone kindly drew attention to this in the oldtime music newsgroup. 'Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection 1922-1932' LP has been reissued in its entirety - songs, notes, texts - in celebration of the 75 anniversary of the Archive of Folk Culture. To access the songs, click on 'Annotations and Texts' [Rosenberg], then on the actual numbers A1 through to B8 for individual tracks, texts and notes. The album includes Fred Lewey's performance of 'Old Ninety Seven'. |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: IanC Date: 17 Jan 04 - 03:16 PM Thanks Joe, it's in the queue! :-) |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: IanC Date: 19 Jan 04 - 11:38 AM Soem useful comments about a variety of books have appeared in this thread: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=66100 IT'S ALSO IN MY QUEUE! :-) |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 19 Jan 04 - 02:26 PM "Calypso Songs of the West Indies," 1943, by Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco. New York. Older calypso songs by Belasco, some dating to 1906. "The Golden Age of Calypso," 1985, from Musical Traditions no. 4, and on line at: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/calypso.htm A good short article with excellent examples of lyrics from the 1930s |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: Stewie Date: 19 Jan 04 - 05:39 PM There is a vast amount of information on calypso in Ray Funk's Kaiso Newsletters which also are available on the Musical Traditions site: Kaiso Newsletters --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread™ From: IanC Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:28 AM Thanks Q and Stewie. I'll look into adding a new section on Calypso (and perhaps a West Indies section also). In the meantime, if anyone can recommend any books, let me know. -) Ian |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 27 May 04 - 03:28 PM Sandy Paton sent me a link to a great online resource, MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada. It includes texts and recordings of songs from Cape Breton Island (all in Gaelic) and from Newfoundland (including some instrumental pieces), as well as background information and photos. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Sep 04 - 03:33 PM Take a look at this thread on the Botsford Collection of Folk Songs. Looks like there must be two editions, three volumes each. The one that came out in the 1920's has about 100 pages per volume, and the edition from the 1950's has closer to 250 pages per volume, Volume 1 is the Americas (plus Africa and Asia in later editions). Volume 2 is Northern Europe, and Volume 3 is Southern Europe. Bookfinder.com lists it at $10-$20 per volume for the earlier edition, $25-$40 for the larger, later edition. Is this a collection I can't live without? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: IanC Date: 13 Sep 04 - 11:55 AM Thanks Joe Looks like a "must have" from the point of view of your collection! I still haven't found time to get back to updating this thread ... there are quite a few dead links I've noticed and a few books people have suggested here & there. Someday soon ... :-) Ian |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Aug 05 - 04:36 PM We haven't had many new contributions here lately, but here's a good one:
Posted By: Dave Ruch 29-Aug-05 - 04:30 PM Thread Name: Wisconsin Folksong Collection online!! Subject: Wisconsin Folksong Collection online!! Apologies if this has already been posted or discussed here - I couldn't find any reference to it in prior threads. -Joe Offer- Here's an online resource that shouldn't be missed: A Traditional Music Library. I figured out how to get this PermaTrhead back in order, so I'll be doing repairs here in the next few weeks. I have most it in order now, but there are a few more refinements to make. -Joe Offer 1 Mar 2006- |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - Index From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 01:57 PM Note: this is a PermaThread™, a permanent reference on folk music books controlled by IanC and maintained by Joe Offer. Feel free to post messages below, but be aware that all messages posted in this thread are subject to editing and deletion. Thanks to Ian and to John in Kansas for their hard work in assembling this information. Ian's Website is here (click) -Joe Offer- A Basic Folk Library This is a collated list of books suggested in the Mudcat PermaThread of the same name (see below), correct to the thread post of 5 October 2003 at 11:03 AM EDT. Most of the books will be out of print and only available at secondhand or specialist booksellers. GENERAL BOOKS - Songs and Tunes, Research COUNTRIES - Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hawai'i, Ireland, Man, Scotland, USA, Wales, etc. DANCE - Morris, Social Dance, Sword Dancing etc. PEOPLE - Individuals, Families and Groups from Joan Baez to Cyril Tawney ONLINE RESOURCES - Links to Online Resources Last Updated : 02-08-02 [last Post : 08-Jun-02] Since this is getting to be a rather large piece of work, perhaps it would be appropriate to remind people that you can "search current page" in most web browsers. In IE5, at least, you don't want the "Search" button on the bar at the top. This will try to search the entire www (the web, not the wobblies). Click the "Edit" tag at the top of the screen, and select "Find (On this Page)" on the drop-down. An alternate method is just to key "Ctrl-F", which is the standard mickeysoft shortcut to "Edit-Find. JohnInKansas By the way, I will include all suggestions for books which are individually recommended by people here. Pointers to other sites may be useful, but I reserve the right to decide whether I link to them or not (I will if they are generally good). I'm not about to copy whole chunks of HTML from elsewhere, though. Thanks for the suggestions. Cheers! Ian Also see: |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - introduction From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:13 PM Where to Look for Books AbeBooks - Book Search Engine. addall.com - Book Search Engine, currently searches 40 plus bookshops. Alibris - Major Book Search Engine. BiblioFind - Amazon's Rare and Used Books Search. BookFinder - Worldwide Book Search Engine. The Country Bookshop Plainfield, Vermont Recently Added - Unsorted (as yet) Books ASHMAN, GORDON "The Ironbridge Hornpipe" (??, 19??) MERRYWEATHER, JAMES and SEATTLE, MAX "Lawrence Leadley, the Fiddler of Helperby" (Dragonfly Music, 1994) RITCHIE, JEAN (ed) "The Newport Folk Festival Songbook" (New York, Alfred Music, 1965) ROONEY, JAMES "Bossmen : Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters" (Da Capo Press, 1991) ) Recently Added - Links Latest Changes - 02-08-2002 27-09-01 Added New Subsection - PEOPLE / Francis O'Neill Last Updated : 05-10-2003 16:30 [Last Post 5 October 2003 - 11:03 AM EDT] |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - General Books From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:19 PM A Basic Folk Library - General Books General - Songs and Tunes "The Collected Reprints from Sing Out!" BLOOD, PETER and PATTERSON, ANNIE "Rise Up Singing" (Sing Out! Publications, 19??) BONI, MARGARET BRADFORD "The Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1947) CHAPPELL, WILLIAM "Popular Music of the Olden Time" (2 vols) (London, 1855-8) CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (ed.) "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (Houghton Mifflin, 1882 to 1898, Dover, 1965) COHEN, JOHN and SEEGER, MIKE "The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book" (Oak Publications, 1964) FRANK, LYNN "Songs for Swingin' Housemothers" (San Francisco CA, Fearon Publishers, 1963) GOTTLIEB, ROBERT and KIMBALL, ROBERT "Reading Lyrics" (Pantheon Books, 2000) KIDSON, FRANK "Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs" (Oxford, Chas. Taphouse & Sons, 1891) KINSLEY, JAMES (ed) "The New Oxford Book of Ballads" (Oxford University Press, 1969) LANG, ANDREW "A Collection of Ballads" (London, Chapman and Hall, 1910) LAWRENCE, VERA BRODSKY "Music for Patriots, Politicians and Presidents" (New York, MacMillan, 1975) LEACH MacEDWARD (ed) "The Ballad Book" New York, A. S. Barnes & Co, 1955 QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR (ed) "The Oxford Book of Ballads" (Oxford, Clarendon, 1910) SILVERMAN, JERRY "Folk Song Encyclopedia" (2 vols) (Mel Bay, 19??) SIMPSON, CLAUDE M. "The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music" (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966) SPAETH, SIGMUND "Read 'Em and Weep" (New York, Halcyon House, 1926 & 1945) WRIGHT, F. E. "Songs That Never Grow Old" (New York, Syndicate Publishing, 1909) General - Research A good online bibliography for ballads is The Traditional Ballad Index. Bruce Olson's site here is also invaluable. BOYES, GEORGINA "The Imagined Village" (Univ. Manchester Press, 1993) BRONSON, BERTRAND HARRIS "The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads" (Princeton University Press, 1976) BRONSON, BERTRAND HARRIS "The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" (4 vols) (Princeton University Press , 1959 to 1972) BRUNNINGS, FLORENCE E. "Folk Song Index" (New York, Garland, 1981) COHEN, NORM "Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music" (New York, Garland, 1994) FOWLER, DAVID "A Literary History of the Popular Ballad" (Duke University Press, 1968) FULD, JAMES J. "The Book of World Famous Music: Classical, Popular and Folk" (New York, Crown, 1966) HARKER, DAVE "Fakesong" (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1985) HART, MARY L. et al "The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide" (New York, Garland, 1989) HENDRICKSON, ROBERT "Mountain Range:A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" (Checkmark, 1997) HICKERSON, JOE "The Archive of Folk Song: A Bibliography" (Washington D.C., Library of Congress, 1988) HUSTVEDT, SIGURD, BERNHARD "Ballad Books and Ballad Men" (Harvard Univ. Press, 1930) LEACH, MacEDWARD and COFFIN, TRISTRAM P. (eds) "The Critics and the Ballad" (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1961) MILLER, TERRY E. "Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide" (New York, Garland, 1986) PORTER, JAMES "The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Research and Information Guide" (New York, Garland, 1989) RICHMOND, W. EDSON "Ballad Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography" (New York, Garland, 1989) ROSENBERG, NEIL (ed) "Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1993) Last Updated : 14-03-02 18:00 |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:21 PM
A Basic Folk Library - Countries
Australia
NOTE: A bibliography of Australian Folk Songs here.
EDWARDS, RON "The Big Book of Australian Folk Song" (Rigby, 1976)
SCOTT, BILL "The Complete Book of Australian Folk Lore" (Sydney, Ure Smith, 1976)
BARBEAU, MARIUS "Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec" (Rutgers, The State University, 1962)
FOWKE, EDITH "Folksongs of Quebec" (2 vols) (?Waterloo Music, 19??)
FOWKE, EDITH "Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario" (???, 19??)
FOWKE, EDITH and JOHNSON, RICHARD "Folksongs of Canada" (2 vols) (Waterloo Music, 1975)
FOWKE, EDITH "Folklore of Canada" (M & S Pub., 1976)
IVES, EDWARD D. ("SANDY") "Drive Dull Care Away: Folksongs From Prince Edward Island" (Inst. Island Studies, 1999)
IVES, EDWARD D. ("SANDY") "Folksongs of New Brunswick" (Fredericton, Goose Lane Edition, 1989)
PEACOCK, KENNETH "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports" (Nat. Mus. Canada, 1965)
BELL, ROBERT (ed) "Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England" (London, Parker, 1857)
BRUCE, J. COLLINGWOON and STOKOE, JOHN (eds) "Northumbrian Minstrelsy" (Newcastle, Soc. Antiquaries, 1882)
D'URFEY, THOMAS "Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy" (6 vols) (London, Playford, 1698-1720)
JONES, LEWIS (ed) "Sweet Sussex: Folk songs from the Broadwood collections" (Sutton Coldfield, Ferret Publications, 1995)
KARPELES, MAUD (ed) "The Crystal Spring : English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1975)
KNOWLES, JAMIE (ed) "A Northern Lass: Traditional Dance Music of North-West England" ()
LLOYD, A. L. "Folk Song in England" (Granada, 1975)
MACKAY, CHARLES (ed) "Cavalier Songs & Ballads of England 1642-84" (London, 1863)
O'SHAUGHNESSY, PATRICK "Twenty-One Lincolnshire Folk Songs" (Oxford University Press 1967)
PALMER, ROY (ed) "BUSHES AND BRIARS - Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams" (Dent, 1983)
PURSLOW, FRANK (ed) "Marrow Bones" (EFDSS Publications, 1965)
SEDLEY, STEPHEN (ed) "The Seeds of Love" (London, Essex Music, 1967)
SHARP, CECIL J. (ed) "One Hundred English Folksongs" (******, 1916)
STEWART, R. J. "Where is St. George? Pagan Imagery in English Folksong" (Bradford-on-Avon, Moonraker, 1977)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH and LLOYD, A. L. "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" (Penguin, 1975)
NOTE: Thanks especially to Wolfgang and Wilfried for this section. Please also see the Mudcat thread German Folk Music.
"Das Lagerliederbuch, Lieder gesungen, gesammelt und geschrieben im Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen" (Pläne Verlag, 1980)
BREUER, H. "Der Zupfgeigenhansl : Das Liederbuch der Wandervögel" (Lpz, Friedrich Hofmeister, 1908)
BUHMANN, H. and HAESELER, H. P. "Das kleine dicke Liederbuch" Little Thick Songbook (3rd ed., 1983)
ERK, LUDWIG AND BÖHME, FRANZ M. "Deutscher Liederhort" (3 Vols) (Leipzig, 1893/4)
KLUSEN, E. "Deutsche Lieder" (German songs) (Insel Verlag, 1980)
KRÖHER, HEIN and OSS "Das sind unsere Lieder" These are Our Songs (Frankfurt am Main, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1977)
SCHILLING, K. and KÖNIG, H. "Der Turm" The Tower (Novelle, Wiesbaden, 1957)
SCHMECKENBECKER, E. and FRIZ, T. "Es wollt' ein Bauer früh aufstehn" a farmer wanted to rise early (Pläne Verlag, 1978)
SCHMIDT, H. W. "Uns geht die Sonne nicht unter, Lieder der Hitler Jugend" (Koln, Tonger, 1934)
STEINITZ, W. "Der grosse Steinitz" (2 Vols) (East-Berlin, 1955)
STERN, A. "Lieder gegen den Tritt" Songs Against Cadence (Asso Verlag, 1960)
VON ARNIM, L. and BRENTANO, C. "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" The Boy's Magic Horn (3 vols) (Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1806-8)
NOTE: Hawai'i used to be a kingdom but was taken over by USA. There are many folk, cowboy and other songs that are being collected.
ELBERT, SAMUEL H. and NOELANI, MAHOE "Na Mele o Hawai'i Nei, 101 Hawaiian Songs" (Honolulu, Univ Hawai'i Press, 1970)
PUKUI, MARY K. and KORN, ALFONS L. "The Echo of Our Song, Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians" (Univ. Hawai'i Press, 1973)
NOTE: Resources on Irish Singing here and here.
BEHAN, DOMINIC "Ireland Sings" (London, Essex Music, 1965)
BREATHNACH, BREANDAN "Folk Music and Dances of Ireland" (Dublin, Mercier Press, 1977. )
BULMER, DAVE and SHARPLEY, NEIL "Music of Ireland" (4 vols) (Louth Lincs., Celtic Music, 1974-1978)
CARSON, CIARAN "Last Night's Fun" (Pimlico, 19??)
COYNE, DECLAN "The Lilting Sons of Country Folk" (Culleenirwan, Dha Lon Promotions, 2000)
CROKER, T. CROFTON (ed) "Popular Songs, Illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland" (4 vols) (London, Percy Society, 1845-7)
DUFFY, CHARLES GAVAN (ed) "The Spirit of The Nation" (Dublin, The Nation, 1843)
FAOLAIN, TURLOUGH "Blood On the Harp"
GALVIN, PATRICK "Irish Songs of Resistance (1169-1923)" (London, Oak, 1962)
HAMMOND, DAVID "Songs of Belfast" (Skerries Co. Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1978)
HARDIMAN, JAMES (ed) "Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland" (2 vols) (London,Robins, 1831)
HARTE, FRANK "Songs of Dublin" (Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1978)
HEALY, JAMES N. "The Second Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1964)
HUNTINGTON, GAIL and HERMANN, LANNI "Sam Henry's Songs of The People" (Moulden, 19??)
JOLLIFFEE, MAUREEN "The Third Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1970)
LOESBERG, JOHN (ed) "Folksongs and ballads popular in Ireland" (4 vols) (Ossian, 19??)
MCDONNEL, JOHN (ed) "Songs of Struggle and Protest" (Skerries, Gilbert Dalton, 1979)
MAC MATHUNA, SÉAMUS "Traditional Songs and Singers" (2nd ed) (Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, 1993)
MASON, REDFERN "The Song Lore of Ireland: Erin's Story In Music and Verse" (New York, Baker and Taylor, 1911)
MUSIC SALES CORPORATION (author) "Soodlums Irish Ballad Book" (Oak Publications Co, 1982)
O BAOILL, SEAN "The Irish Song Tradition" (Cork, Ossian, 1976)
O LOCHLAINN, COLM "The Complete Irish Street Ballads" (London, Pan Books, 1984)
O'LOCHLAINN, COLM "Irish Street Ballads" (The Three Candles, 1965)
O'KEEFFE, DANIEL D. "The First Book of Irish Ballads" (Cork, Mercier Press, 1955)
O'NEILL FRANCIS "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" (******, 1903)
O'SULLIVAN, DONAL "Songs of The Irish" (Dublin, Mercier Press, 1981)
OG, SEAN and O BAOILL, MANUS "Ceolta Gael" (2 vols) (Baile Atha Cliath, 1994)
PETRIE, GEORGE "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland" (Dublin, 1855)
SHIELDS, HUGH "Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folksinging in North Derry" (Blackstaff Press, 1981)
TUNNEY, PADDY "The Stone Fiddle: My Way to Traditional Song" (Dublin, Gilbert Dalton, 1979)
VALLELEY, FINTAN "The Companion to Irish Traditional Music" (Cork University Press, 1999)
WALLIS, GEOFF and WILSON, SUE "The Rough Guide to Irish Music" (Rough Guides, 2001)
ZIMMERMAN, GEORGES-DENIS "Songs of Irish Rebellion" (Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1967)
NOTE: The Manx Heritage Site here contains a number of useful Manx resources (including some used below).
BROADBENT, S. K. (ed) "The Manx Quarterly" (Isle of Man Examiner, 1907-1923)
CLAGUE, JOHN "Cooinaghtyn Manninagh - Manx Reminiscences" (Castletown IoM, Backwell, 1911)
GILL, W. H. (ed) "Manx National Songs with English Words" (Boosey and Co., 1896)
HARRISON, WILLIAM (ed) "Mona Miscellany" (Douglas IoM, The Manx Society, 1873)
MOORE, ARTHUR W. (ed) "Manx Ballads and Music" (Douglas IoM, Johnson, 1896)
WORLD MANX ASSOCIATION "Ellan Vannin" (World Manx Association, 1923-1928)
NOTE: A bibliography of Scots Gaelic music here.
BROADWOOD, LUCY E. (ed) and TOLMIE, FRANCES (coll) "105 Songs of Occupation from the Western Isles" (Lampeter, 1997)
BRANDER, MICHAEL "Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads" (Clarkson N. Potter, 1975)
KENNEDY-FRASER, MARJORY "Songs of The Hebrides" (3 vols) (London, Boosey, 1909-21)
LOESBERG, JOHN "Traditional Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland" (3 vols) (Ossian, 19??)
ORD, JOHN "Bothy Songs and Ballads" (John Donald, 1990)
SHULDMAN-SHAW, PATRICK et al "The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection" (8 vols) (Mercat Press, 19??-1988)
BONI, MARGARET BRADFORD (ed) "The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs" (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1952)
CHAPPLE,JOE MITCHELL "Heart Songs" (National Magazine & Chapple Publishing Co., 1909)
EMRICH, DUNCAN "American folk poetry: an anthology" (Boston; Toronto, Little Brown, 1974)
GILBERT, DOUGLAS "Lost Chords: The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs" (Doubleday Dorand, 1942)
KENNEDY, CHARLES O'BRIEN (ed) "A Treasury of American Ballads Gay, Naughty, and Classic" (New York, McBride, 1954)
LAWS, G. MALCOLM Jr. "American Balladry from British Broadsides" (******, 1957)
LAWS, G. MALCOLM Jr. "Native American Balladry" (******, 1964)
LOMAX, ALAN "The Folk Songs Of North America" (Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1960)
LOMAX, JOHN A. and ALAN "American Ballads and Folk Songs" (MacMillan Co., 1934)
MALONE, BILL C and STRICKLIN, DAVID "Southern Music, American Music" (University of Kentucky Press, 1979)
SANDBURG, CARL "The American Songbag" (Harvest/HBJ Books, 1957)
SANDBURG, CARL "The New American Songbook" (******, ****)
SCOTT, JOHN ANTHONY "The Ballad of America" (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1967)
SEEGER, RUTH CRAWFORD "American Folk Songs for Christmas" (Garden City, N.Y, Doubleday, 1953)
WARNER, ANNE (ed) "Traditional American Folksongs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection" (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1984)
BAYARD, SAMUEL P. (ed) "Hill Country Tunes: Instrumental Folk Music of SW Pennsylvania" (American Folklore Society, 1944)
BELDEN H. M. (ed) "Ballads and Songs Collected by The Missouri Folklore Society" (U of Mo Press, 1940)
BROWN, FRANK C. "The Frank C. Brown collection" (not published)
CAZDEN, NORMAN et al (eds) "Folk Songs of The Catskills" (Univ New York, 1958)
COX, JOHN HARRINGTON "Folk-Songs of the South" (Gretna, Pelican, 1998)
FLANDERS, HELEN HARTNESS
LINGENFELTER, Richard E et al "Songs of the American West" (Univ. California Press, 1968)
LINSCOTT, ELOISE HUBBARD "Folk Songs of Old New England" (MacMillan, 1939)
McNEILL, W. K. "Southern Folk Ballads" (2 vols) (August House, 1987-8
McNEILL, W. K. "Southern Mountain Folksongs: Traditional Songs from the Appalachians and the Ozarks" (August House, 1992)
MORRIS, ALTON C. "Folksongs of Florida" (Univ. of Florida Press, 1990)
RANDOLPH, VANCE "Ozark Folksongs" (4 vols) (Columbia, Missouri, 1946-1950)
RANDOLPH, VANCE "Roll Me In Your Arms" (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992) ROHRBURG, LYNN (ed) "Songs of All Time" (Cooperative Recreation Service, 1946)
THOMAS, JEAN "Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky" (New York, Henry Holt, 1939)
Countries - USA / UK / Ireland
Lesley's Contemplator site has a useful bibliography here.
WILGUS D. K. "Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898" (Rutgers University Press, 1959)
NOTE: The Celfyddydau Mari Arts Archive of traditional arts material from South Wales here.
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE "Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg" (Welsh Folk Song Society, 1988)
KINNEY, PHYLLIS and EVANS, MEREDYDD "Canu'r Cymry: Detholiad o Ganeuon Gwerin" (2 vols) (Welsh Folk Song Society, 1984)
SAER, D. ROY (ed) "Caneuon Llafar Gwlad" (2 vols) (National Museum of Wales, 1974,1994)
DAVIES, J. GLYNN "Fflat Huw Puw a cherddi eraill" (Gwasg Gomer, 1992)
HAMILTON, ALEX "Blodau'r Grug: 100 o Alawon Dawnsio Gwerin Poblogaidd Cymru" (Welsh Folk Dance Society 1992)
Countries - Wales / Scotland / Ireland / England
KENNEDY, PETER (ed) "Folksongs of Britain and Ireland" (London, Cassell, 1975)
MILNER, DAN and KAPLAN, PAUL "A Bonnie Bunch of Roses: Songs of England, Ireland and Scotland" (Oak Publications, 19??)
PALMER, ROY "A Book of British Ballads" (Llanerch, 1998)
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Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:23 PM A Basic Folk Library - Dance Morris Dance - Morris NOTE: The Morris Ring's official bibliography is available here and there is another by Tom Keays here. FORREST, JOHN "The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750" (University of Toronto Press, 1999) Dance - Social Dance NOTE: A history of Western Social Dance with bibliography here. Includes an online copy of Arbeau's "Orchesographie" BARNES, PETER "The Barnes Book of English Country Dance Tunes" (Canis Publishing, 1986) RAVEN, MIKE "1000 English Country Dance Tunes" () TOWNSEND, A. DAVE "A First Collection of English Country Dance Tunes" (Oxford, Ferret Music, 1982) Dance - Sword Dancing NOTE: There is a very full bibliography of Sword Dancing books here and a selected one here. ALLSOPP, IVOR "Longsword Dances from Traditional and Manuscript Sources" (Northern Harmony, 1996) SHARP, CECIL J. "The Sword Dances of Northern England" (3 vols) (London, Novello, 1911-1913) Last Updated : 03-05-2002 12:30 |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - Genres From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:42 PM A Basic Folk Library - Genres Bawdy Genres - Bawdy LEGMAN, GERSHON "No Laughing Matter" (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1968) LOGSDON, GUY (ed) "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995) RANDOLPH, VANCE "Roll Me In Your Arms" (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992) Genres - Black ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS et al "Slave Songs of the United States" (New York, Simpson, 1867) COURLANDER, HAROLD "Negro Folk Music U.S.A." (Dover, 1992) DETT, ROBERT NATHANIEL (ed) "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro As Sung at Hampton Institute" (Hampton Institute Press, 1927) EPSTEIN, DENA J. "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, Black Music to the Civil War" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1977) SEWARD, THEODORE F. (ed) "Jubilee Songs As Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University" (New York: Bigelow and Main., 1872) WORK, JOHN W. "American Negro Songs" (Crown, 1940) Genres - Blues NOTE: There are useful bibliographies of The Blues here and here. ALYN GLEN "I Say For Me a Parable" (New York, Da Capo, 1993) BASTIN, BRUCE "Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995) BOOTH, STANLEY "Rhythm Oil" (Pantheon, 1991) BROOKS, LONNIE "Blues For Dummies"Foster City CA, IDG Books Worldwide, 19?? CALT, STEPHEN "I'd Rather be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues" (New York, Da Capo, 1994) CALT, STEPHEN and WARDLOW, GAYLE DEAN "King of the Delta Blues: Charlie Patton" (Newton Rock Chapel Press, 1988) COHN, LAWRENCE (ed) "Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians" (Abbeville Press, 1993) COOK, BRUCE "Listen to the Blues" (New York, Da Capo, 1995) EVANS, DAVID "Big Road Blues: Tradition & Creativity in the Folk Blues" (Da Capo Press, 1982) FINN, JULIO "The Bluesman: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas" (London, Quartet, 1986) GODRICH, JOHN and DIXON, ROBERT M. W. "Recording The Blues" (Stein and Day, 1970) GROSSMAN, STEFAN "Rev. Gary Davis/Blues Guitar" (Oak Publications, 1997) HARRISON, DAVID "The World of Blues" (Studio Editions, London, 1995) LOMAX, ALAN "The Land Where the Blues Began" (Dell, 1993) OLIVER, PAUL "Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues" (2nd ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1984) OLIVER, PAUL et al "Yonder Comes the Blues" (Cambridge University Press, 2001) ONDAATJE, MICHAEL "Coming Through Slaughter" (Norton First Edition, 1976) PALMER, ROBERT "Deep Blues" (New York, Viking Press, 1981) RUSSELL, TONY "Blacks, Whites and Blues" (New York, Stein & Day, 1970) RUSSELL, TONY "The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray" (Harper Collins, 1997) SHIPTON, RUSS "The Complete Blues and Ragtime Guitar Player" (****, 19??) TITON, JEFF TODD "Early Downhome Blues: A Musical & Cultural Analysis" (2nd ed.) (Univ. North Carolina, 1994) WARDLOW, G.D. "Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching For the Blues" (San Francisco, Miller Freeman, 1998) Genres - Country Music HINTON, Brian "Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville" (Sanctuary, 2000) Genres - Cowboy Songs NOTE: There is a useful Cowboy bibliography here and a booklist by Frank Staplin here. AXELROD, ALAN and FOX, DAN "Songs Of The Wild West" (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991) BIG 3 MUSIC CORP. "American Cowboy Songs" (New York, New York, 19??) CANNON, HAL (ed) "Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering" (******, 1985) FIFE, AUSTIN E. and ALTA S. "Cowboy And Western Songs" (New York, Clarkson and Potter, 1969) LARKIN, MARGARET "Singing Cowboy, a Book of Western Songs" (Knopf, 1931) LEE, KATIE "Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle" (Flagstaff Arizona, Northland Press, 1976) LINGENFELTER, RICHARD E. et al "Songs of the American West" (Univ of California Press, 1968) LOGSDON, GUY (ed) "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995) LOMAX, JOHN A. and ALAN "Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads"(MacMillan Co., 1938) OHRLIN, GLEN and GREEN, ARLIN "The Hell-Bound Train" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1989) SILBER, IRWIN and ROBINSON, EARL (eds) "Songs of the Great American West" (New York, MacMillan, 1967) THORP, N. HOWARD (JACK) "Songs of the Cowboys" (New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1966) TINSLEY, JIM BOB "He Was Singin' This Song" (Univ. of Florida, 1981) TINSLEY, JIM BOB "For a Cowboy Has to Sing" (Univ. Central Florida Press, 1991) Genres - Drinking SHAY, FRANK "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions: Songs and Ballads of Conviviality" (Macaulay, 1927) Genres - Humour GOODWIN, GEORGE (Ed.) "Song Dex Treasury of Humorous and Nostalgic Songs" (Song Dex Inc., 1956) Genres - Hymns and Religious Songs NOTE: For more resources, see the Religion and Music Resource. For John Newton's hymns, see the Olney Hymns site. The OREMUS searchable Online Hymnal is here. The Cyber Hymnal is here. DEARMER, PERCY and VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH "The English Hymnal" (******, 1906) MONK, WILLIAM HENRY (ed.) "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (London, William Cloves and Sons, 1861) SANKEY, IRA "Sacred Songs and Solos" (London, Morgan and Scott, 1891) SHELDON, JOHN "The Quaker Songbook" (Stainer and Bell, 1981) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH and DEARMER, PERCY "Songs of Praise" (London, Oxford University Press, 1936) Genres - Military and Soldier Songs NOTE: There is a useful bibliography here. DALLAS, KARL "The Cruel Wars" (London, Wolfe Publishing, 1972) DOLPH, EDWARD ARTHUR and EGNER, PHILIP "Sound Off! - Soldier Songs from Yankee Doodle to Parley Voo" (New York, Cosmopolitan, 1929) HOPKINS, ANTHONY "Songs from the Front & Rear" (Edmonton, Hurtig, 1979) WARD-JACKSON, C H and LUCAS, LEIGHTON "Airman's Song Book" (Sylvan Press, 1945) Genres - Mormon Songs NOTE: Some information on Mormon Folklore from Utah here. CHEYNEY, THOMAS E. (ed) "Mormon Songs From the Rocky Mountains" (Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 1968) Genres - Shanties, Sea Songs and Work Songs NOTE: There is a useful bibliography here and a collection of Shanties & Sea Songs here. ABRAHAMS, ROGER D. "Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore" (American Folklore Society, 1974) COLCORD, JOANNA C. "Songs of American Sailormen" (New York, Norton, 1938) CREIGHTON, HELEN "Maritime Folk Songs" (Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1961) DOERFLINGER, WILLIAM MAINE "Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman" (New York, 1951) FOWKE, EDITH FULTON "Lumbering Songs from the North Woods" (Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1970) HUGILL, STAN "Shanties from the Seven Seas" (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969) PALMER, ROY (ed.) "The Oxford Book of Sea Songs" (Oxford University Press, 1986) RICKABY, FRANZ "Ballads & Songs of the Shanty-Boy" (Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1926) TERRY, RICHARD RUNCIMAN "The Shanty Book Part 1" (London, Curwen, 1921) WALTON, IVAN and GRIMM, JOE "Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors" (Detroit,Wayne State University Press, 2002) WHALL, W. B. "Sea Songs and Shanties" (Brown, Ferguson, 1910) Genres - Socialist Songs NOTE: There are a number of online Socialist Songbooks, including Liberator, Raised Voices, Singing of Struggle, The Socialist Songbook and Union Songs COLLINS, MAL et al "The Big Red Songbook" (Pluto Press, 1977) INTERNATIONAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD "The IWW Little Red Songbook" (Columbia, SC., Harbinger, 1995) SHEFFIELD SOCIALIST CHOIR "With One Voice" (Privately published, 19??) Genres - Spirituals NOTE: There is a short bibliography here and an interesting article here. ALLEN W., WARE C., and GARRISON L. "Slave Songs of The United States" (New York, Simpson, 1867) CONE, JAMES H. "The Spirituals and the Blues" (New York, Orbis Books, 2000) CRUZ, JOHN "Culture On The Margins" (Univ Princetown, 1999) DIXON, CHRISTA K. "Negro Spirituals: from Bible to Folksong" (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1976) DOBIE, J. FRANK "Follow de Drinkin' Gourd" (Texas Folklore Society, 1928) EPSTEIN, DENA J. "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War" (Univ Illinois Press, 1977) FISHER, M. M. "Negro Slave Songs in the United States" (Russell & Russell, 1968) HEILBUT, ANTHONY "The Gospel Sound - Good News and Bad Times" (NY, Limelight Editions, 1971) JACKSON, GEORGE PULLEN "White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands" (Dover Press, 1965) JOHNSON, J. W. and JOHNSON J. R. "American Negro Spirituals" (New York, DaCapo Press, 1989) ROACH, HILDRED "Black American Music: Past And Present" (2 vols) (Boston Ma, Crescendo Publishing Co, 1973) SOUTHERN, EILEEN "The Music Of Black Americans: A History" (New York, W.W.Norton & Co, 1971) Genres - Yiddish NOTE: There is a useful bibliography of Yiddish Song here. SILVERMAN, JERRY "The Yiddish Songbook" (New York, Stein and Day, 1982) Last Updated : 05-10-2003 16:30 |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - People From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:50 PM A Basic Folk Library - Individuals, Families and Groups Joan Baez People - Joan Baez BAEZ, JOAN "The Joan Baez Songbook" (New York, Ryerson Music Publishers, 1964) People - Albert E. Brumley NOTE: Jim Dixon recommended the whole range of books published by Albert E. Brumley and Sons. Brumley posed a bit of a problem of categorisation as, though he is a publisher, he seems to have also written a number of Gospel Songs such as "I'll Fly Away" and "Turn Your Radio On". Also the books would have come under a number of headings (Gospel, General, Americal), and so been dispersed. Because of this, Albert E. Brumley has his own place here. Notes for individual books are taken from the website, except where noted. Joe Offer has volunteered the general review below. BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "All Day Singin' & Dinner on the Ground" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "America's Memory Valley" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Best Of Albert E. Brumley" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Golden Years of Gospel Singing" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Great Inspirational Songs" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Lamplitin' Songs & Ballads" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Olde Time Camp Meetin' Songs" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Radio Favorites" (Brumley, 19**) BRUMLEY, ALBERT E. (ed) "Songs of the Pioneers" (3 vols) (Brumley, 19**) People - Robert Burns NOTE: The official Robert Burns site here has his complete works electronically (no melodies). BURNS, ROBERT and ROY G. ROSS "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" (Univ. South Carolina, 1999) HOVEY, SERGE "The Robert Burns Song Book, Volume 1" (Mel Bay, 1997) KINSLEY, JAMES "Burns: Poems and Songs" (Oxford University Press, 1971) James Kinsley's book is a particularly useful example of a book of Burns' songs with melodies, and has been regularly reprinted. People - The Carter Family NOTE: A songbook of "Original Carter Family Songs" is Online here. LEONARD, HAL "The Original Carter Family" (Peer International, 1980) SOKOLOV, FRED "The Carter Family Collection" (Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., 1999) People - Larrie Gorman IVES, EDWARD ("SANDY") ET AL "Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs" (Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1964) People - Woody Guthrie NOTE: The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives here has a vast amount of information. The Mudcat biography of Woody is here. GUTHRIE, WOODY "Bound For Glory" (New York, E. P. Dutton, 1968) GUTHRIE, WOODY et al "Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People" (Oak Publications, 1967) KLEIN, JOE "Woody Guthrie : A Life" (Delta, 1999) People - Ashley Hutchings NOTE: See also Fairport Convention. HUTCHINGS, ASHLEY "A Little Music" (London, Island Music, 1976) People - Leadbelly ASCH, MOSES and LOMAX, ALAN "The Leadbelly Songbook" (New York, Oak Publications, 1962) People - Christy Moore MOORE, CHRISTY "One Voice: My Life in Song" (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000) People - Thomas Moore NOTE: Lesley's biography of Thomas Moore is here and there is another good page, here. MOORE, THOMAS "Irish Melodies" (10 vols) (Various publishers, originally 1808-1836) People - Francis O'Neill NOTE: There is a biography of Chief O'Neill here. CAROLAN, NICHOLAS "A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago" (Ossian, 1997) O'NEILL FRANCIS "O'Neill's Music of Ireland" (******, 1903) People - Peggy Seeger NOTE: Peggy Seeger's website is here. SEEGER, PEGGY "The Peggy Seeger Songbook" (Oak Publications, 19??) People - Jimmy Shand NOTE: There are Jimmy Shand obituaries online at Accordions.Com and The Stage. CAMERON, IAN and SHEPHERD, ROBBIE "The Jimmy Shand Story" (Scottish Cultural Press, 1998) People - Cyril Tawney NOTE: There is a discography with some biographical details here. TAWNEY, CYRIL "Grey Funnel Lines: traditional song & verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970" (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987) Last Updated : 05-10-2003 16:30 |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - Instruments From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:05 PM A Basic Folk Library - Instruments Appalachian Dulcimer Instruments - Appalachian Dulcimer NOTE: Further information about the instrument is available here. See also this article on Contemporary Mountain Dulcimers. BRYANT, LARKIN "Larkin's Dulcimer Book" (Riverlark Music, 19??) MAJOR, JAMES "The Dulcimer Chord Encyclopedia" (Mel Bay, 1993) REILLY, LUCILLE "Striking Out ... And Winning" (Shadrach Productions, 1992) RITCHIE, JEAN "The Dulcimer Book" (Oak Publications, 1963) Instruments - Banjo (5 String) NOTE: A bibliography of The Banjo's history is available here and here is Stuart Tod's Banjo Page. There is another good 5-string bibliography here. BURKE, JOHN "John Burke's Book of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo" (Amsco, 1968) LINN, KAREN "That half-barbaric twang: the banjo in American popular culture" (Urbana, Univ. Illinois Press, 1994) MULLER, ERIC and KOEHLER, BARBARA "Frailing the 5-String Banjo: An Instruction Manual" (Mel Bay, 1973) WEBB, ROBERT LLOYD (comp) "Ring the banjar: the banjo in America from folklore to factory" (MIT Museum, 1984) Instruments - Banjo (Tenor) SULLIVAN, ANTHONY "Sully's Irish Banjo Book" (Cork, Ossian Publications, 1988) Instruments - Concertina (Anglo-German) NOTE: There is a useful little bibliography for Anglo-German and English Concertinas here. LEVY, BERTRAM "The Anglo Concertina Demystified" (New York, Front Hall Enterprises, 19??) Instruments - Fiddle NOTE: Useful fiddle sites include Fiddler Magazine here and The Hardanger Fiddle Associatiation of America here. COOPER, PETER "the Complete Irish Fiddle player" (Mel Bay, 1998) KAUFMAN, ALAN "Beginning Old Time Fiddle" (New York, Oak, 1997) WILLIAMSON, ROBIN "English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes" (New York, Oak, 1976) Instruments - Guitar NOTE: Further information about the instrument is available at The Online Guitar Archive OLGA. DENYER, RALPH and SUMMERS, ANDY "The Guitar Manual" (Knopf, 1992) McQUAID, SARAH "The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book" (Ossian Publications, 1996) SEEGER, PETE and LESTER, JULIUS "The Folk Singer's Guide to the 12 String guitar, as played by Leadbelly" (Oak Publications, 1965) SILVERMAN, JERRY "A Guitarist's Treasury of Song" (Mel Bay, 1995) SILVERMAN,JERRY "Beginning the folk guitar; an instruction manual" (2 vols) (Oak, 1964) Instruments - Mandolin NOTE: The Mandolin Page is here and The Bluegrass Mandolin HomePage is here. There is a Mandolin Chord page here. Instruments - Melodeon NOTE: There is a useful Melodeon page here. MALLINSON, DAVID "Mally's Melodeon Methods: D/G System Absolute Beginners" (Mallinson, 19??) Instruments - Tin Whistle NOTE: A useful online Tin Whistle guide is the Ceolas Penny Whistle Guide. COTTER, GERALDINE "Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor" (Ossian, 1997) JORDAN, EAMONN "Whistle and Sing" (2 vols) (****, 19??) MCCASKILL, MIZZY and GILLIAM, DONA "The Complete Irish Tin Whistle Book" (Mel Bay, 1996) MCCULLOUGH, L. E. "The Complete Tinwhistle Tutor" (Pittsburgh, PA, Silver Spear Publications, 1976) MAGUIRE, TOM "The Tin Whistle Book" (Music Sales Corp., 1997) OCHS, BILL "The Clarke Tin Whistle Book" (Pennywhistle Press, 19??) WILLIAMSON, ROBIN "The Penny Whistle Book" (Music Sales Corporation, 1977) Last Updated : 03-05-2002 12:30 |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - Subjects From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:09 PM A Basic Folk Library - Subjects Carols and Christmas Subject - Carols and Christmas NOTE: There is a useful reference for carols here. DEARMER, PERCY et al (eds) "The Oxford Book of Carols" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1928) EHRET, WALTER and EVANS, GEORGE "The International Book of Christmas Carols" (Walton Music, 1980) KEYTE, HUGH et al (eds) "The New Oxford Book of Carols" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992) LANGSTRAFF, NANCY and JOHN "The Christmas Revels Songbook" (Revels Inc., 1985) POSTON, ELIZABETH "The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols" (Penguin Books, 1979) Subject - Folklore NOTE: There is a useful introductory article on Folklore here. FRAZER, JAMES GEORGE, SIR "The Golden Bough" (New York, Macmillan, 1922) LEACH, MARIA "Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, & Legend" (Harper Row, 1972) Subject - Folk Tales NOTE: There is a useful article on Folk Tales by Doug Lipman - here and a comprehensive online resource here. JACOBS, JOSEPH "English Fairy Tales" (******, 1890) THOMPSON, STITH "The Folktale" (8 vols) (New York, Dryden Press, 1951) Subject - Gypsy Tradition (poems, speech, songs) NOTE: There is a Gypsy bibliography here. COUGHLAN, TIM "Now Shoon the Romano Gillie" (Univ. Wales, 2001) Subject - Historical Events GREAVES, C. DESMOND "The Easter Rising in Song & Ballad" (London, Kahn and Averill, 1980) Subject - Individual Songs IVES, EDWARD ("SANDY") "The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1997) MURPHY, SEAN "The Mystery of Molly Malone" (Dublin, 1992) SCHEIPS, PAUL "Hold the Fort!" (Smithsonian, 1971) Subject - Mining GREEN, ARCHIE "Only A Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs" (Univ. Illinois Press, 1972) LLOYD, A. L. (ed) "Come All Ye Bold Miners" (Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1952; revised 1978) Subject - Murder BURT, OLIVE WOOLLEY "American Murder Ballads and their Stories" (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1958) OWSTON, CHARLES E. "Murder, Betrayal and Death: Observations on Traditional Ballads" (Self published, 1999) Subject - Nursery Rhymes, Childrens' Songs and Games NOTE: There is an interesting collection of early Nursery Rhymes here. BUTTERWORTH, NICK "The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes" (Puffin, 1995) LANG, ANDREW and BROOKE, L. LESLIE "The Nursery Rhyme Book" (London, Warne, 1898) MEEK, BILL "Moon Penny" (Cork, Ossian, 19??) O'BOYLE, CARMEL "Cut the Loaf: Irish Children's Songs" (Mercier Press, 1997) OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959) OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" (Oxford Univ. Press, 2nd ed.1997) OPIE, IONA and PETER "The Singing Game" (Oxford University Press, 1985) Subject - Pirates FRANK, STUART "The Book Of Pirate Songs" (Sharon, Mass., Kendall Whaling Museum, 1998) Subject - Poetry CHAPPLE, JOE MITCHELL (ed) "Heart Throbs" (The Chapple Publishing Co., 1905) Subject - Railroad NOTE: There is a bibliography containing most books about trains and railroads here. COHEN, NORM "The Long Steel Rail" (Univ. Illinois Press, 2000) LYLE, KATIE LETCHER "Scalded to Death by the Steam" (Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 19??) Last Updated : 15-03-2002 16:00 |
Subject: Basic Folk Library PermaThread - Online Resources From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:14 PM A Basic Folk Library - Online Resources Alphabetical pages for online Biographies, Song and Tune Sites, Performers' Sites and Publishers' Sites can be accessed by clicking the appropriate link. Online Resources - Articles Cecil Sharp In America Online Resources - Bibliographies A Traditional Music Library Appalachian Women and Traditional Music (resource) EFDSS Folksong Bibliography EFDSS Morris Dancing Bibliography The Electric Book Company Folklore and Society Series David Herron's Chapbook Irish Music - Old Books Music In American Life Series New College of California Guide to E-Texts Sources for Printed Music and Song Lyrics The Scottish Folklore Page Women of Appalachia - Resources Online Resources - Book Review Sites Green Man Reviews Michael Raven's Songbooks Online Resources - Collections American Folklife Centre (Library of Congress) Collections British and Irish Authors on The Web Women of Appalachia - resources Frank C. Brown Collection Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection The Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco Village Music Project Online Resources - Historical Information Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable History of Hymns Archive WPA Life Histories Project Online Resources - Miscellaneous A Million Lives - Biography Resource Canadian Journal For Traditional Music CDSS Finding Songs in Songbooks & Anthologies: A Users' Guide Folklib Index Leonards More Music Music 1 records search Pro Music Find record search The Radio Ballads review Song Notes: A Companion to the Old Town School of Folk Music Swinburne (1866) Poems and Ballads Traditional MP3s WFMA (World Folk Music Association) Last Updated : 05-10-2003 16:30 |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: IanC Date: 02 Mar 06 - 06:15 AM Thanks Joe!!!! A lot of the links etc. are broken after all this time. I'll try to get back to them in a week or two when I've got less other stuff on. :-) Ian |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: GUEST,DB Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:56 AM I note, in Joe Offer's 1st March list, above, a book on the 'Bonnie Earl O'Murray' ballad. You may be interested to learn that there is another book on this ballad: 'Blood Feud: The Stewarts & Gordons At War in the age of Mary Queen of Scots' by Harry Potter (I kid you not!), Tempus Publishing Ltd., 2002. |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: IanC Date: 02 Mar 06 - 08:38 AM Thanks! :-) |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Mar 06 - 01:59 AM Here's a cool resource for you: Open WorldCat. Type in a book title, then type in your ZIP Code*, and it will give you a list of libraries near you that have the book. *For Canada, use your Postal Code or province. Everyone else use your country name. |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: MartinRyan Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:21 PM Picked up an interesting book at a recent fair. "Songwriters of Ireland (in the English language)" by Colm O'Lochlainn - he of the "Irish Street Ballads" and "More Irish Street Ballads" mentioned earlier. This one is a small (65 pages) booklet with biographical details of many of the 19th and early 20th C. authors of well known Irish songs. Seems to be quite scarce - I'd never seen a copy before this one. Worth keeping an eye out for if you're in the sort of place it might turn up in! Regards |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: IanC Date: 10 Mar 06 - 05:03 AM Thanks, Martin. I'll look out for it! :-) |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: GUEST,redneckconfederategenerallee@yahoo.com Date: 03 May 06 - 09:14 AM i need something on music from the North Georgia mountains in the late 1700's, early 1800's. can you help me? |
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jul 06 - 05:12 PM Here's an addition for online resources: New Zealand Folk Song You may want to include http://garrygillard.net/ - Garry's Website is the definitive source for Watersons and Martin Carthy lyrics. The Copper Family Songbook is at http://www.thecopperfamily.com/ One more: From White Hall to Bacon Hollow - the song collecting of George Foss So, get back to work, Ian!!!! ;-) -Joe Offer- |
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