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.
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
HOOK, LINE AND SINGER
by MATTHEWS, CERYS
288p; Words and music accompanied by Notes and Memories. Almost a song on every 2nd page. (133 SONGS?)
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A$16.89
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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A$47.20
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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A$36.54
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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A$39.33
Stories of new Muslims
Alexandria: Conveying Islamic Message Society. 68 p., wraps in very good condition, 9x6.5 inches. Conversion stories, usually native-born Americans, many from California. Includes a statement by Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, pp.64-68: "I wanted to be a big star
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A$23.60
And a Voice to Sing With (Signed 1st Ed)
by Baez, Joan
SIGNED IN PERSON BY JOAN BAEZ directly to the front endpaper. NOT inscribed to anyone. A lovely true 1st printing in unread condition with just some light bumping at the upper corners. Looks terrific with new mylar for your dust jacket. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.
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A$204.52
Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember.
by Sigmund Spaeth
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Large format hardcover, orange cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. 19th century American folk & popular songs, music and discussion, illustrations. Stated First Edition. 267 pages, title index. Old newsclipping tucked in, discoloring the page. Worn and bumped, cracking at pp16-17.
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A$23.60
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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A$70.79
White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singing and Buckwheat Notes
by George Pullen Jackson
Hardback. New.
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A$127.68
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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A$314.62
Bob Dylan: Chronicles.
by Dylan, Bob
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First edition of Dylan's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Coco Shinomiya. PSA/DNA LOA and sticker to the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about it manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody...
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A$19,665.00
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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A$23.60
How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Biography of Pete Seeger
by Dunaway, David King
Villard Books, 2008. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 560 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches.
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A$38.32
Bob Dylan
by Dylan, Bob (Creator)
Music Sales Amer, 2011. Paperback. New. paperback/cd edition. 48 pages. 11.75x9.00x0.25 inches.
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A$28.09
Original Russian Cossack Music from the Urals
by [Russian Folk Music]
Laserlight, 1991. CD Music. Fine copy. Music CD. Laserlight/Delta Music. 1991. 15 tracks. 54 minutes. Fine copy but lacking liner notes.
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A$7.87
Folk Music: More Than a Song
by Baggelaar, Kristin
Crowell, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$11.36
Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy
by Bradley, S.A.J. [Selected, Edited, with Introduction, Notesand Glossary by]
London: Andre Deutsch. 1968. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. A couple of very small "stains" to top of leading edge - a couple of spots really. 219 pages. Arranged with guitar accompaniment by John W. Duarte. Bawdy songs from the 16th and 17th centuries . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$32.00
American folk songs of protest
by Greenway, John
New York: Octagon Books, 1971. Hardcover. x, 348p., ex library with library call number on the spine and traces of a removed book plate on the front blank end paper, no other markings, good condition. Reprint of the 1953 edition. Includes a section on African American protest songs.
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A$23.60
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads - Revised and Enlarged
by John A. Lomax, and Alan Lomax
1938 "Revised and Enlarged" printing. 431 pages. One of Lomax's definitive anthologies. Over 200 ballads and songs (with melody) including notes on the origins. Covers are unmarked, but spotted and faded on the rear board and spine, with bruising of corners and spine ends. Pages are very clean with no marks noted except a user name on the FFEP
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A$102.26
GOOD FRIENDS AND BAD ENEMIES; ROBERT WINSLOW GORDON
by Kodish, Debora
1986. 1986 Kodish, Debora GOOD FRIENDS AND BAD ENEMIES; ROBERT WINSLOW GORDON AND THE STURY OF AMERICAN FOLKSONG Music in American Life series Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1986 first printing 263pp, index, notes, black and white photographs 8vo As new hardcover in d/j, publisher's folded broadside laid-in.
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A$55.06
The Ballad Book
by MacEdward Leach
Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, and is in a protective cover. Dust jacket is free of marking, but has some chipping and a closed tear or two on the edges. Covers are clean but bumped on the top edge and corners. Pages are clean, but there may yet be found some very light pencil notations. FIRST EDITION D-E
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A$55.06
