Polkabilly : How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music

James P. Leary
Hardcover - $96.95

A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas ...

The Hundred Thousand Fools of God : Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) with CD (Audio)

Theodore Levin
Paperback - $65.95

The Hundred Thousand Fools of God : Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) with CD (Audio)

Theodore Levin
Hardcover - $86.95

Through music, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God opens a window onto the cultural and political history of Central Asia in tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet times. Narrated as a travelogue, the book presents the author's encounters with musicians in T ...

Rock It Come Over : The Folk Music of Jamaica

O. Lewin
Paperback - $51.95

Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form ...

Mountains of Music : West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal

John Lilly
Paperback - $40.95

From fiddle tunes to folk ballads, from banjos to blues, traditional music thrives in the remote mountains and hollers of West Virginia. For a quarter century, Goldenseal magazine has given its readers intimate access to the lives and music of folk a ...

A History of Russian Music : From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar

Francis Maes
Hardcover - $128.95

"At last there is a short and comprehensive introduction to Russian music and its history that is up to date in research, sophisticated in viewpoint, elegantly written, and completely free of nonsense. It fills a longstanding gap and fills it most sa ...

A History of Russian Music : From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar

Francis Maes
Paperback - $55.95

"At last there is a short and comprehensive introduction to Russian music and its history that is up to date in research, sophisticated in viewpoint, elegantly written, and completely free of nonsense. It fills a longstanding gap and fills it most sa ...

Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments

William P. Malm
Hardcover - $65.95

When William Malm published his wide-ranging study of traditional Japanese music in 1959, it was the first time in the twentieth century that such work had been carried out in a Western language.

Malm's book has still not been replaced as the singl ...

Danny Boy : The Beloved Irish Ballad with Celtic Charm Attached

Malachy McCourt
Hardcover - $9.95

"This moving Miniature Edition(TM) features the complete lyrics to the haunting Irish ballad. The most requested of Irish songs, it has been recorded by dozens of vocalists, from Kate Smith to the Pogues,"

Play of a Fiddle

Gerald Milnes
Hardcover - $80.95

Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. These are people who make their own music and dance while weathering a continual barrage of more popular idioms.

Gerald Milnes, hims ...