Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, Brit…
"Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, Fr…
Folk music: a regional exploration
by Cohen, Norm
fromGreenwood guides to American roots music
American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days. Forms ranging from New England sea chanteys to Pennsylvania Dutch worksongs helped shape life in the Northeast. Appalachian ballads evolved in the South, as did slave spiritua…
Folk music: a regional exploration
by Cohen, Norm
fromGreenwood guides to American roots music
Folk music: a regional exploration
by Cohen, Norm
fromGreenwood guides to American roots music
"Folk music scholar Norm Cohen presents a thorough exploration of the many ways in which folk music genres and sub-genres have arisen in different regions of America. Chapters on folk song types, folk instrumentation, and the urban folk revival set further context to the discuss…
Folk music: a regional exploration
by Cohen, Norm
fromGreenwood guides to American roots music
Explores folk music and the ways in which it has evolved in different regions of the United States.
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Stude…
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based…
