100 books every folk music fan should own / Dick Weissman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weissman, Dick, author.

Series:

Best music books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Bibliography.

Folk music.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

One hundred books every folk music fan should own

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Summary:

In recent years an almost overwhelming number of books have appeared covering various aspects of American folk music and its history. Before 1970, most comprised collections of songs with a sprinkling of biographical information on noted performers. Over the past decade, however, scholars, journalists, and folk artists themselves have contributed biographies and autobiographies, instructional books and historical surveys, sociological studies and ethnographic analyses of this musical genre. In 100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own, performer and historian Dick Weissman offers a reliable route through the growing sea of book-length studies, establishing for future scholars a foundation for their research. Beginning with early twentieth-century collections of folk songs, the author brings readers to the present by exploring modern studies of important events, critical, collections of primary sources, the most significant musical instruction guides, and in-depth portraits of traditional and contemporary American folk musicians. For each title selected, Weissman provides his own brief summary of its contents and assessment of its significance for the reader-whether fan or scholar. Folk music fans, scholars, and students of the American folk music tradition-in-deed, any reader seeking guidance on the best books in the field-will want a copy of this vital work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Historical Surveys 7

Biographies and Autobiographies 17

Songbooks and Folk Song Collections 52

American Indians 75

The Immigrants 78

Spanish-Language Music in the United States 83

African American Music 88

Anglo American Songs 104

Black and White 107

Politics, Protest and Workers' Songs, and the Folk Song Revival 111

Miscellaneous: A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That 123

Folk Rock and Freak Folk 132

The Business of Folk 136

Folk Instruments and Instructional Materials 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810882348

0810882345

OCLC:

856054385