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Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1974. N1 - A reprint hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease and few tiny tears on the edges and corners, less than half-inch tear with crease on the back top, bubble crease on the front upper left side and back upper right side, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, previous owner's info stamped on the top page edges and front free endpaper, previous owner's inscription written on the front free endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. Includes a laid in publisher's label SIGNED and note written by John B. Welch (great-grandson of the author). The Scottish Reprint Library. With a foreword by Robert S. Rait. 8.75"x5.5", 493 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Folk music was one of the special interests of John Ord, Fellow of the Society of… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1983. L6 - A first edition (First published 1983 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, small patch chipped/open tear on the top of the back flap, scattered light scratches, rubbing and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some wrinkling on the spine edges, significant tanning and light shelf wear. 9.5"x6.25", 209 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In the first few years of this century, Ralph Vaughan Williams travelled throughout England to listen to folk singers in public-houses and workhouses, in fields and at festivals, noting down by hand as many of the texts and tunes as he could manage. In the process he amassed variants of over 800 folk songs, some of them unique, which otherwise might well have been lost to posterity. Vaughan Williams, as Roy Palmer says in his introduction, is a composer of the first rank who owes a… Read More

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2006. AQ5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Roger Wood and James Fraher on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photography by James Fraher. Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series. 10.25"x8.25", 323 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs… Read More

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2006. AQ5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Roger Wood and James Fraher on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photography by James Fraher. Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series. 10.25"x8.25", 323 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs… Read More

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2006. AQ5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Roger Wood and James Fraher on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photography by James Fraher. Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series. 10.25"x8.25", 323 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they… Read More

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2006. AQ5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Roger Wood and James Fraher on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photography by James Fraher. Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series. 10.25"x8.25", 323 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To most people, zydeco appears as quintessentially Louisiana as gumbo. Certainly, the music originated among black Creoles of southwest Louisiana. But the swamps of southwest Louisiana spill across the Sabine River into southeast Texas, and the music originally known as "la-la" quickly trickled west, too. There it fused with blues to create a new sound that came to be known, spelled, and recorded as "zydeco." Black Creoles from Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they… Read More