Folk Music
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American Song Bag
by Carl Sandburg
Famous poet Carl Sandburg was also a collector of American folk music. He compiled around 290 songs in this anthology, which contains singable words and music, including harmonies or accompaniment.
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
Some some titles include:
"No More Booze (Fireman Save My Child)" / "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" / 'The Foggy Dew' / 'Barbara Allen' / 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street' / 'Pretty Polly' / 'The House Carpenter' / 'The E-RI-E' / 'The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil' / 'The Buffalo Skinners' / 'Turkey In... Read more about this item
How Can I Keep From Singing
by David King Dunaway
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-476), discography (p. [477]-491), and index.
The Complete Poems and Lyrics
by Joni Mitchell
With a career spanning thirty years, Joni Mitchell is one of the most highly esteemed singer/songwriters in popular music. She has recorded seventeen albums and is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including several Grammy awards - two in 1996 for her Turbulent Indigo release - and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. Joni was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1997.
Songs Of the Serbian People From the Collections Of Vuk Karadzic
by Milne and Vasa D Mihailovich Holton
British Broadside Ballads Of the Sixteenth Century, a Catalogue Of the Extant Sheets and An Essay
by Carole Rose Livingston
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
Great day coming; folk music and the American left
by Denisoff, R. Serge
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. Hardcover. 219p., illus., first edition, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped, edgeworn, and sunned dust jacket. Music in American life.
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$15.00
![Folkways Records Number 1 - 1957 [catalog]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/428/926428786.0.b.1.jpg)
Folkways Records Number 1 - 1957 [catalog]
New York: Folkways Records & Service Corp, 1957. Pamphlet. 40p., 3x9 inches, illus. soiled wraps, staples rusted, dealer's stamp on front cover else good condition. Listings of Folkways Records' LPs including artists, song titles, and prices. "Authentic Folk Music
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$20.00
The American Songbag (First Edition Signed by Carl Sandburg)
by Carl Sandburg
Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Collectible first edition, first printing of Carl Sandburg's groundbreaking compilation of 280 "songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America," approximately 100 of which were published for the first time. Signed in black ink on half title page by three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and poet Carl Sandburg. Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. "Copyright 1927"...
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$199.99
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC.
by CROSS, MILTON and David Ewen
Dust jackets have faded spines; closed chips at heads and tail - largest 43x17mm; closed chips on 6 coners - largest 14x4mm; 4 closed tears - longest 6mm. Both volumes have coloured, somewhat faded top edges; fore-edges rough cut at binders; pages very slightly yellowed.78 composers. Covered in plastic. Please expect extra postage.
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$24.44
Recorded labor songs: an overview. A reprint from Western Folklore, volume 27, 1968
by Green, Archie
Urbana: University of Illinois Bulletin, 1968. Pamphlet. [9p.], wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good condition. (Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations reprint series no. 188).
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$18.00
Working-class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song
by Callahan, Mat and Yvonne Moore
Oakland: PM Press, 2019. Paperback. 87p., 8.5x11 inches, paperback, illus., as new. Corrected scores for two songs laid in.
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$12.00
The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
by Niles, John Jacob
Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Good softcover, wear and creasing to cover . Paperback. Good. Illus. by Barss, William [illustrator].
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$16.00
![Dacha Shan (Yunnan hua deng ge wu) [together with] Cai gu niang 大茶山；踩姑娘](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/777/1106777421.0.b.jpg)
Dacha Shan (Yunnan hua deng ge wu) [together with] Cai gu niang 大茶山；踩姑娘
Hong Kong: Wen tong shu dian, 1962. Two slender booklets, 55p., 28p., from a series on Chinese folk dances. Both include diagrams of the steps and musical notation with the lyrics. Zhongguo min jian wu dao.
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$15.00
Capstan Bars
by David Bone
160 pages with twenty-three songs with descriptions of usage for short haul, halyard and others. Also includes eight woodcuts and a glossary of nautical terms.Covers are clean blue cloth. Corners are bumped, but spine and ends are tight. Pages are very clean with no markings noted.
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$45.00
White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands
by George Pullen Jackson
Republication of work first published in 1933. 444 pages. Includes b/w photos and transcriptions in music notation. Noted a few light pencil markings on the flyleaf, but no rips or tears.
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$25.00
The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs
by Trapp Family Singers. Ed. Franz Wasner
N.p, N.p, 1973. 1st edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Illustrator: Agathe Trapp. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book. Illustrator: Agathe Trapp. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Folk Music; ISBN: 0394709888. ISBN/EAN: 9780394709888. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19110. . 9780394709888
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$20.00
Southern Mountain Folk Tradition and the Folksong "Stars" Syndrome
by West, Don
Appalachian Movement Press. N.D.. 1st Separate Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, soiled, with former price and original price obliterated on front wrap. Originally appeared in West's Appalachian South magazine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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$20.00
Folk Songs of the South
by Cox, John Carrington
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925. First printing. Fine. 545pp, 5 photo-illus. plates, folding map of West Virginia tipped-in (as issued) at rear. Publ. blue cloth, lettered in gilt, front cover is pristine, spine shows sunning (blue-black, faded gilt letters)very slight rubbing at bottom of spine, slight rubbing on cover tips, top of text block gilt, a very clean copy The texts of 185 songs are followed by 26 folk...
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$75.00
![Songs for Our Time": A Concert in Celebration of the 90th Birthday [and] the Life and Work of Meridel Le Sueur, featuring performances by Pete Seeger and Ronnie Gilbert](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/295/824/1355824295.0.b.jpg)
Songs for Our Time": A Concert in Celebration of the 90th Birthday [and] the Life and Work of Meridel Le Sueur, featuring performances by Pete Seeger and Ronnie Gilbert
Minneapolis: Orpheum Theatre, 1990. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. One-page flier advertising a community festival in honor of Le Sueur laid in.
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$15.00
Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
by Colin Harper
Profiles the life and work of Bert Jansch, guitarists' guitarist and songwriters' songwriter. He has been admired by stars as diverse as Bob Dylan, Johnny Marr and Jarvis Cocker, and this book looks at his life from his early days in Scotland to his 1995 album "When the Circus Comes to Town".
As a long-time admirer, I came away with a deeper appreciation of just how remarkable his style was and how influential he would prove to be. Colin Harper has taken the opportunity of using much of the first half of... Read more about this item
As a long-time admirer, I came away with a deeper appreciation of just how remarkable his style was and how influential he would prove to be. Colin Harper has taken the opportunity of using much of the first half of... Read more about this item
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$25.37
How can I keep from singing: Pete Seeger
by Dunaway, David King [Seeger, Pete]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 386p., photo-illustrated in inserted coated stock, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch red boards with dark blue cloth backstrip, in dust jacket. Heel of casing has suffered damp damage and blue cloth has stained lower endsheets of both gutters and the inside of the dj. Otherwise a pretty good reading copy, no markings, no ownerships, no further damage.
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$10.00
Take this Waltz: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen
by Fournier, Michael and Ken Norris, editors
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec: The Muses' Company / La Compagnie des Muses, 1994. Paperback. 189p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good condition. Contributors include Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Kris Kristofferson, Phil Spector, and Andrei Codrescu.
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$12.00
Songs of American labor, industrialization, and the urban work experience: a discography
by Reuss, Richard A., comp
Ann Arbor: Program on Workers Culture, Labor Studies Center, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan, 1983. Paperback. 109p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition.
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$30.00
Folk technicians and inventors (Technicy i wynalazcy ludowi). Translated from Polish
by Seweryn, Tadeusz
Warsaw, Poland: Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Publications Department of the National Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, 1978. Paperback. 103p., wraps a bit faded else very good condition.
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$15.00
![Flood of 82; Post Diluvian Productions presents: Ramblin' Jack Elliot in concert. A benefit for the repair & replacement of flood damaged public facilities in Fairfax [concert handbill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/388/935/1596935388.0.b.jpg)
Flood of 82; Post Diluvian Productions presents: Ramblin' Jack Elliot in concert. A benefit for the repair & replacement of flood damaged public facilities in Fairfax [concert handbill]
[San Anselmo // Fairfax, CA]: Post Diluvian Productions, 1982. Ephemera. 3x5.25 inch ticket; evenly toned, else very good. Benefit concert for the Fairfax flood of 1982. Ticket signed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot.
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$85.00
Trois Chanson Russes // Three Russian Folk Songs, Op. 41 for chorus of altos and basses with the composer's piano reduction of the orchestra score. Centennial Edition
by Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Melville, NY: Belwin Mills, Publishing Corp, n.d.. Pamphlet. iv, 28p., staplebound, 7x10.5 inches; one front wrapper corner slightly creased, else in very good condition.
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$17.00
Hold the fort! The story of a song from the sawdust trail to the picket line
by Scheips, Paul J
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. Paperback. 57p., wraps, small dent in upper margin else very good condition, 7.5x10 inches. Smithsonian studies in history and technology, no. 9.
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$12.00
Stagolee shot Billy
by Brown, Cecil
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Hardcover. 296p., very good condition in like dust jacket. The African American author's exploration of the song and its social context.
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$12.00
Read 'Em and Weep
by Sigmund Spaeth
Dust jacket now has a protective cover, but has some light rubbing on the front and a few small tears along the top and bottom edges. The largest is a triangle at the top of the back about 3/4" x 1/2". The covers are very clean with square corners, and no rubbing on the edges. The pages are also very clean with no markings noted.
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$35.00
The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
by Niles, John Jacob
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Niles began collecting the folk music of his native Kentucky before World War One, and later recorded and published many of the songs he collected, becoming an important source of the 'folk music revival'. This book collects ballads from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee, & Virginia, many little changed from their English country origins. Stated first printing (first edition) with date on the title page. Hardcover, full green cloth with white & light...
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$45.00
