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
Folk Music Books & Ephemera
Songs of Work and Freedom
by Edith / Joe Fowke & Glazer (eds.)
Dolphin, 1961. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Card). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Moderate foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Music; Folk Music; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item,...
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A$28.00
And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
by Baez, Joan
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: New Amer Library, 1988 Book. Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/printing book is tight with no markings, heavy tanning of pages and edges, some soiling to page edges, wraps have rubbing and soiling, creasing and curling along the edges,.
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A$24.79A$18.59
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$28.10
Ozark Folklore
by Vance Randolph
University of Missouri Press, 1987. Cloth. fine/fine.
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A$167.34
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$54.23
Folk Music: More Than a Song
by Baggelaar, Kristin
Crowell, 1976. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$11.19
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$38.34
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$38.74
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$69.72
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$309.86
AND A VOICE TO SING WITH : A Memoir
by Joan Baez
New York: Summit Books. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671400622 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket. Edge wear and toning to front and rear panels. ; 1.6 x 9 x 6.3 Inches .
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A$77.39
Bob Dylan: For Organs, Pianos & Electronic Keyboards
by Dylan, Bob (Creator)
Hal Leonard Corp, 2011. Paperback. New. 48 pages. 11.70x0.40x8.70 inches.
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A$37.39
Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography
by LAWLESS, Ray M
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 662pp. Ex-library copy with stamp, spine number and tape on pastedowns, else very good in very good dustwrapper with spine number and modest chip near the crown.
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A$30.99
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$54.23
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$7.75
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$23.24
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
The Colonial Minstrel
by Anderson, Hugh
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 158 pages. The story of Charles Thatcher, whose theatrical success in Victoria and New Zealand, between 1852-1870, rested on his success as a lively commentator of day-to-day life on the Goldfields. The songs printed in this book not only bring the historical detail to fuller life but form a valuable collection of...
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A$18.00
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$100.71
12 BOB DYLAN HITS FOR SIX AND TWELVE STRING GUITARS: Playable as Solos, Duets, Trios. Arranged by Roger Edison
by Dylan, Bob
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1966. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 28pp. Contains lyrics and music to 12 Bob Dylan songs, including: Blowin' in the Wind; A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall; It Ain't Me, Babe; Mr. Tambourine Man; With God on Our Side; and seven more. 12" x 9
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A$38.74
