Books about Folk

1.       'In search of the craic' by Colin Irwin
2.       Song for every Season - Bob Copper
3.       Early to Rise
Songs and Southern Breezes ....both by Bob Copper
4.       Folk - A portrait of English Traditional Music, Musicians and Customs by Bob Pegg
5.       The Ladybird Book of Folk Song,
6.       Deke Leonard's Rhinos Winos and Lunatics - The Legend of Man, a Rock n' Roll Band; the prequel Maybe I Should've Stayed in Bed - The Flipside of the Rock n' Roll Dream
7.       Come All Ye Bold Miners: Lloyd.
8.       English Folk Song Some Conclusions: Sharp.
9.       Last Night's Fun: Carson.
10.       The Fellowship of Song: Dunn.
11.       Song And Democratic Culture In Britain: Watson.
12.       Popular Music In England: Russell.
13.       The Ballad And The Folk: Buchan.
14.       The Stone Fiddle: Tunney.
15.       The Idiom Of The People: Reeves.
16.       Richard Lewis: The Magic Spring
17.       The Betsy Whyte - the lives and ways of the Scots 'Travellers'
18.       Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie
19.       And a Voice to Sing With - Joan Baez
20.       Singing Family of the Cumberlands, by Jean Ritchie.
21.       Set Into Song, the story of the making of the Radio Ballads, by Peter Cox.
22.       English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
23.       The English Folk Song Bibliography is on-line at http://www.efdss.org/resind.htm
24.       See the previous Basic Folk Library thread
25.       Ewan McColl - Doomsday in the Afternoon - seminal book on travellers' music in general and Belle Stewart in particular
26.       'History and the Morris Dance' by John Cutting
27.       Joe Klein's "Woody Guthrie
28.       "Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers" and "Sound of the Dove"
29.       "All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region" by David E. Whisnant
30.       Strange Affair - by Patrick Humphries, bio of Richard Thompson.
31.       E.V.Thompson - 'The Music Makers'?
32.       Alan Lomax: The land where the blues began
33.       The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad by Wilentz and Marcous
34.       The Invention of Folk Music and Art Music - Matthew Gelbart
35.       Cerddoriaeth Draddodiadol yng Nghymru: Llyfryddiaeth - Traditional Music in Wales: Bibliography"
36.       David Atkinson: 'The English Traditional Ballad'
37.       MacColl & Seeger's 'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
38.       Frank & Anne Warner's 'Traditional American Folk Songs'.
39.       Joe Boyd's 'White Bicycles

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