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Repertoire, Authenticity and Introduction - The Presentation of American Indian Music in Oklahoma's Elementary Schools... Repertoire, Authenticity and Introduction - The Presentation of American Indian Music in Oklahoma's Elementary Schools (Hardcover)
Robert J. Damm
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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Armenian Neume System of Notation - Study and Analysis (Hardcover, illustrated edition): R.A. At'ayan, Vrej N Nersessian Armenian Neume System of Notation - Study and Analysis (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
R.A. At'ayan, Vrej N Nersessian
R5,345 R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Save R858 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Translated into English by N.V. Nersessian. The study of the Armenian system of notation called Khazs (Neumes) is of significance both for Armenian and Byzantine music from a historical and aesthetic point of view.

Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments - A Communications-centered Handbook (Paperback): Bauman Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments - A Communications-centered Handbook (Paperback)
Bauman
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together articles from The International Encyclopedia of Communications in the areas of Folklore, Drama, Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication, Music, and History, with a new introduction and updated bibliographies.

The Hammered Dulcimer - A History (Hardcover): Paul M. Gifford The Hammered Dulcimer - A History (Hardcover)
Paul M. Gifford
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival. This book offers the reader a discussion of the medieval origins of the dulcimer and its subsequent spread under many different names to other parts of the world. Drawing on articles the author has written in English as well as articles by specialists in their own languages, Gifford explains the history and evolution of the instrument. Special attention is paid to the North American tradition from the early 18th-century to the 1970s revival. Drawing from local histories, news clippings, photographs, and interviews, the book examines the playing of the dulcimer and its associated social meanings.

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (Hardcover): James Bailey An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (Hardcover)
James Bailey
R4,513 Discovery Miles 45 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology presents translations of thirty songs about Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya, Sadko, and other legendary characters of Russian folklore.

An extensive introduction provides basic background about Russian epics, their poetics, the history of their collection, their performance context, and their main interpretations. In addition, there is a short introduction to each song, explaining its plot, allusions, and interpretations. A glossary of common terms and a selected bibliography of studies about the Russian epic in English and Russian are also included in the volume.

What the Music Said - Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (Hardcover): Mark Anthony Neal What the Music Said - Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (Hardcover)
Mark Anthony Neal
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of black communities through the black tradition in popular music. His history challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to speak truth to power. Beginning with the role of music in 19th-century slave culture, Neal covers key black cultural movements (Harlem, jazz, blaxploitation films, Motown, hip-hop, etc.), the social forces and organizations that countered them, including the FBI and the Nixon administration, a myriad of artists (Marvin Gaye figures significantly), and the relation of black music to such forces as the black feminist movement, black liberation, and identity politics.

Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing - And the Blind Shall Sing (Paperback): Natalie O Kononenko Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing - And the Blind Shall Sing (Paperback)
Natalie O Kononenko
R1,802 Discovery Miles 18 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

What the Music Said - Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (Paperback): Mark Anthony Neal What the Music Said - Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (Paperback)
Mark Anthony Neal
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Beginning with the role of music in nineteenth century slave culture, Neal covers key black cultural movements (Harlem, jazz, blaxploitation films, Motown, hip-hop, etc.), the social forces and organizations that countered them, including the FBI and the Nixon administration, a myriad of artists (Marvin Gaye figures significantly), and the relation of black music to such forces as the black feminist movement, black liberation, and identity politics.

Top-Requested Irish Sheet Music - 21 Popular and Traditional Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar) (Paperback): Alfred Music Top-Requested Irish Sheet Music - 21 Popular and Traditional Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar) (Paperback)
Alfred Music
R501 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R62 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From nostalgic ballads to raucous sing-along favorites, this collection of sheet music brings fun to every Irish celebration, from St. Patrick's Day parties to weddings, and more. This practical songbook focuses on the Irish songs that are most familiar and beloved among today's audiences, so it's guaranteed to entertain Each piano arrangement includes complete lyrics and vocal melody, plus chord fingering grids for optional guitar accompaniment. Titles: Black Velvet Band * Clancy Lowered the Boom * Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) * Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) * I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen * The Irish Rover * The Irish Washerwoman * Irish Wedding Song (The Wedding Song) * It's a Great Day for the Irish * The Kerry Dance * The Last Rose of Summer * Mother Machree * My Wild Irish Rose * The Parting Glass * The Rocky Road to Dublin * Seven Drunken Nights * The Wearin' of the Green * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * Whiskey in the Jar * The Wild Rover * You Raise Me Up.

Armenian Sacred and Folk Music (Hardcover): Komitas Vardapet Komitas, Vrej N Nersessian Armenian Sacred and Folk Music (Hardcover)
Komitas Vardapet Komitas, Vrej N Nersessian
R5,711 R4,617 Discovery Miles 46 170 Save R1,094 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the realm of Armenian sacred and folk music the name which towers above all others is that of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). He not only notated the music from oral tradition but also analyzed the music of the service, the chants, the psalmody and presented us with its theoretical basis as practised today. More significant still are his painstaking studies concerning neumes. Eight of Komitas's principle musicological studies have been selected from his collected works published in Erevan in 1941. Of these, four are on folk music and four published in German and one in French. These have been reproduced in this volume in the original. The papers on folk music describe Armenian folk/country music and dances together with the important plough song of Lori (in north eastern Armenia). The papers on sacred music discuss the liturgy and tunes sung in the Armenian church. The studies were first published between the years 1894 and 1914.

Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing - And the Blind Shall Sing (Hardcover, New): Natalie O Kononenko Ukrainian Minstrels: Why the Blind Should Sing - And the Blind Shall Sing (Hardcover, New)
Natalie O Kononenko
R4,503 Discovery Miles 45 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Among the many intriguing characteristics of the Ukrainian folk tradition is the fact that Ukrainian epics were sung by a special type of minstrel -- the blind mendicant. These minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance and provided the singers with protection and support throughout their careers.

The separateness of Ukrainian culture became politically salient, and epic singers became the target of repression during the Stalin era (in 1939 there was a massacre of Ukrainian minstrels). For this reason -- and due also to tire secrecy that always surrounded the guilds' rites of membership and their association with mendicancy -- Ukrainian ministrelsy has been little studied.

Natalie Kononenko's work is thus a revelation of a distinctive folk tradition and a little-known social order. It will be of interest to anyone with an interest in folklore, Ukrainian culture, or rural social history.

The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today - A special issue of the journal Musical Performance (Paperback):... The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today - A special issue of the journal Musical Performance (Paperback)
Amnon Shiloah
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Within Israel there are a number of musical traditions and styles encompassing sacred and secular, old and new, folk and sophisticated forms. Contributions to this issue form a discussion of significant traditions established before 1948: the search for the establishment of a new and typically Israeli art and folk music; the attitude of the protagonist of the old, exile, traditional heritage of the Jewish people; and the struggle of the immigrants after the creation of the State of Israel to ensure the survival of their musical traditions as well as to cope with the new physical and cultural environment. The general scope of these contributions corresponds to major events marking the musical and cultural history of modern Israel from the 1920s to 1990s, including local Arab music. A CD of examples of Arab music, Yiddish song, Klezmer, and Judeo-Spanish song is included with Part 2.

Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance (Hardcover): Damian A. Carpenter Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance (Hardcover)
Damian A. Carpenter
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late nineteenth century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and social in a cultural act. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure's heroic associations and expands on its historical (Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad outlaw that Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie audience, the good outlaw that Guthrie shaped to reflect the social concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw that Dylan offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw figure's self-reflexive commentary and critique of both performer and society that reflects the times in which they played their outlaw roles.

Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival (Paperback): Bob Coltman Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival (Paperback)
Bob Coltman
R2,374 Discovery Miles 23 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholar and a balladeer, Paul Clayton (1931-1967) is credited with the Top-Ten hit "Gotta Travel On" and was a key figure in the mid-1950s rise of folksong to media popularity. Clayton single-handedly brought hundreds of obscure folksongs to the mainstream radio and recording market, and he influenced listeners and friends from Dave Van Ronk to Bob Dylan, who considered Clayton a mentor, "mindguard," and well of folksong. Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival is the first biography of the folk singer and song collector. Using accounts from friends, family, and fellow musicians, author Bob Coltman relates the breadth and depth of Clayton's extraordinary life, from his birth into a singing family and his teenage years as a radio singer and folksong collector, to his establishment in New York as a folk performer and recording artist, to his tragic early suicide. Clayton's recordings are also examined, interspersed with his insights and adventures as a performer and songwriter in the folk world. Gradually, Clayton's achievements become overwhelmed by his disintegration as a drug user, failing musician, and bipolar gay man, culminating in eyewitness accounts relating to his tragic end. Presenting an in-depth look at folk music in the 1950s, Coltman illuminates what it meant to be a working, but not starring, folksinger in this period. With quotes from a number of folksongs, a discographic summary, and a bibliography, this volume brings to life this intelligent, perceptive, and largely unknown scholar-folksinger.

Folk Music of Britain - and Beyond (Paperback): Frank Howes Folk Music of Britain - and Beyond (Paperback)
Frank Howes
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1969. Until the latter half of the nineteenth century, it was thought that England, alone among the European countries, and unlike Scotland and Ireland where collections of ballads and songs had already been published as early as the eighteenth century, had no important native tradition of music. The founding of the (English) Folk-Song Society in 1898, however, and the pioneering work of such collectors as Lucy Broadwood, the Reverend S. Baring-Gould and, later, Cecil Sharp uncovered a still flourishing folk culture. Since then interest in this subject has grown steadily, and the bibliography of publications of actual folk-songs and ballads is now huge. Frank Howes sets out a general and scholarly introduction, first examining in detail the history and origins of folk music and going on to show the nature and vast amount of the material, enforcing his arguments with a wealth of examples from around the world. His discussion of the differences of national idiom leads on to a comparison of British folk music with that of other European countries and America, in which he pays due attention to the Celtic and Norse traditions. Separate sections on balladry, carols, street cries, broadsides, sea shanties, nursery rhymes and instruments illustrate both the variety of folk music and the extent to which it permeates our national heritage.

The Anglo-American Ballad - A Folklore Casebook (Paperback): Dianne Dugaw The Anglo-American Ballad - A Folklore Casebook (Paperback)
Dianne Dugaw
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1995. This book's collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American scholarship's questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph Addison's discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves. The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and community as well as national genealogies and connections to contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on its importance and relevance.

Song and Democratic Culture in Britain - An Approach to Popular Culture in Social Movements (Paperback): Ian Watson Song and Democratic Culture in Britain - An Approach to Popular Culture in Social Movements (Paperback)
Ian Watson
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences - an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium. It triggered controversy: some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that 'such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book'. The author discusses the way in which the popular song, from Victorian times onwards, has been forced by the entertainment industry out of its roots in popular culture, to become a blander form of art with minimal critical potential. The book ends by considering the possibilities for a continued flourishing of a genuine popular song culture in an electronic age. It has become a standard title in bibliographies and curricula. Much has changed since 1983, not least in music; but this then innovative book still has a lot to say about popular song in its social and historical context.

Brimful of Asia - Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene (Hardcover): Rehan Hyder Brimful of Asia - Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene (Hardcover)
Rehan Hyder
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the 1990s, Asian pop artists began entering the mainstream of the British music industry for the first time. Bands such as Black Star Liner, Cornershop, Fun Da Mental and Voodoo Queens, led those within and without the industry to start asking questions such as what did it mean to be Asian? How did the bands' Asian background affect their music? What did their music say about Asians in Britain? In this book, Rehan Hyder draws on in-depth interviews with musicians from these bands and with critics and record producers, to examine the pressures associated with making music as a young Asian in today's multi-ethnic Britain. As the book reveals, these musicians wish to convey an authentic sense of creativity in their music, while at the same time wanting to assert a positive ethnic identity. Hyder explores these two impulses against the backdrop of a music industry and a society at large that hold a range of confining stereotypes about what it means to be Asian. The experiences of these bands add considerably to the wider debate about the nature of identity in the contemporary world.

The British Folk Revival 1944-2002 - 1944-2002 (Hardcover): Michael Brocken The British Folk Revival 1944-2002 - 1944-2002 (Hardcover)
Michael Brocken
R4,032 Discovery Miles 40 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk revival from the 1940s up until the 1990s, beginning with the emergence of the revival from within and around the left-wing movements of the 1940s and 1950s. Key figures and organizations such as the Workers' Music Association, the BBC, the English Folk Dance and Song Society, A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl are examined closely. By looking at the work of British Communist Party splinter groups it is possible to see the refraction of folk music as a political tool. Brocken openly challenges folk historicity and internal narrative by discussing the convergence of folk and pop during the 1950s and 1960s. The significant development of the folk/rock hybrid is considered alongside "class", "Americana", radio and the strength of pop culture. Brocken shows how the dichotomy of artistic (natural) versus industry (mass-produced) music since the 1970s has led to a fragmentation and constriction of the folk revival. The study concludes with a look at the upsurge of the folk music industry, the growth of festivals and the implications of the Internet for the British folk revival. Brocken suggests the way forward should involve an acknowledgement that folk music is not superior to but is, in fact, a form of popular music.

Shanties from the Seven Seas - Shipboard Work-Songs and Some Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail (Paperback):... Shanties from the Seven Seas - Shipboard Work-Songs and Some Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail (Paperback)
Stan Hugill
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

The Captain's Apprentice - Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song (Hardcover): Caroline Davison The Captain's Apprentice - Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song (Hardcover)
Caroline Davison
R615 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams In January 1905 the young Vaughan Williams, not yet one of England's most famous composers, visited King's Lynn, Norfolk, to find folk songs 'from the mouths of the singers'. He had started collecting in earnest little more than a year before but was now obsessed with saving these indigenous tunes before they were lost forever. An old fisherman, James 'Duggie' Carter, performed 'The Captain's Apprentice', a brutal tale of torture sung to the most beautiful tune the young composer had ever heard. The Captain's Apprentice is the story of how this mysterious song 'opened the door to an entirely new world of melody, harmony and feeling' for Vaughan Williams. With this transformational moment at its heart, the book traces the contrasting lives of the well-to-do composer and a forgotten King's Lynn cabin boy who died at sea, and brings fresh perspectives on Edwardian folk-song collectors, the singers and their songs. While exploring her own connections to folk song, via a Hebridean ancestor, a Scottish ballad learnt as a child and memories of family sing-songs, the author makes the unexpected discovery that Vaughan Williams has been a hidden influence on her musical life from the beginning - an experience she shares with generations of twentieth-century British schoolchildren. Published for Vaughan Williams's 150th birthday in August, this evocative, sensitive look at the great composer will also be read on BBC Radio 4. 'Her gift is a work of love and infinite care' KEGGIE CAREW, author of Dadland 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and its weaving of biography, social history and folk song' STEVE ROUD, author of Folk Song in England

The Texas-Mexican Conjunto - History of a Working-class Music (Paperback): Manuel Pena The Texas-Mexican Conjunto - History of a Working-class Music (Paperback)
Manuel Pena
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A history of conjunto music and musicians.

Waylon - An Autobiography (Paperback): Waylon Jennings, Lenny Kaye Waylon - An Autobiography (Paperback)
Waylon Jennings, Lenny Kaye
R584 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R30 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Equal parts outlaw, renegade, and legend, Waylon Jennings enjoyed a stellar music career for four decades and this no-holds-barred autobiography reveals the story of a man who infused conservative country music traditions with the energy of rock and roll to rewrite the rules of popular music in America. It chronicles all the chapters of Jennings's incredible life, including his beginnings as a dirt-poor son of a farm laborer; his role as Buddy Holly's protege; his influential friendships with such luminaries as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and George Jones; the stunning success ushered in by his platinum 1976 anthology album, "Wanted: The Outlaws";""the drug habit that nearly destroyed him; and his three failed marriages and the journey that lead him to Jessi Colter, the woman who would become his wife for 25 years. With anecdotes, portraits, and little-known facts about Jennings's fellow country music stars, this book overflows with the honesty, true humor, and down-home charisma of an authentic honky-tonk hero.

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer - The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music (Hardcover, Main): Philip Watson Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer - The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music (Hardcover, Main)
Philip Watson
R823 R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 'A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural treasures.' JOHN ZORN 'The perfect companion-piece to the music of its subject.' MOJO 'Outlines the subject's life in a series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare in such undertakings . . . a cool, casual victory.' IRISH TIMES Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential musicians at work today. Growing up playing clarinet in orchestras and marching bands, Frisell has progressed through a remarkable range of musical personas - from devotee of jazz master Jim Hall to 'house guitarist' of estimable German label ECM, from edgy New York downtown experimentalist to plaintive country and bluegrass picker. He has been a pioneering bandleader and collaborator, a prolific composer and arranger and a celebrated Grammy Award winner. A quietly revolutionary guitar hero who has synthesised many disparate musical elements into one compellingly singular sound, Frisell connects to a diverse range of artists and admirers, including Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Gus Van Sant, Marianne Faithfull and Justin Vernon, many of whom feature in this book. Through unprecedented access to the guitarist and interviews with his close family, friends and associates, Philip Watson tells Frisell's story for the first time. 'Stuffed with musical encounters, so many that every couple of pages there's an unheard Frisell recording for the reader to chase down.' NEW YORKER 'Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer is the definitive biography.' BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT 'Superb . . . the book races along like Sonny Rollins in full sail. Like subject, like writer: this is super-articulate, adventurous prose.' PERSPECTIVE '[Watson's] writing balances unbridled passion and dispassionate research nearly as deftly as Mr. Frisell's playing does sound and silence . . . compelling.' WALL STREET JOURNAL

Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (Paperback, New edition): Ralph Lee Smith Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (Paperback, New edition)
Ralph Lee Smith
R1,388 Discovery Miles 13 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument arrived in the light of the 20th century with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions is a first-hand report to enlarge our knowledge of the dulcimer's history by searching the hills and "hollers" of Appalachia, looking at old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After reviewing the instrument's special musical features, the book describes some related instruments, and reveals little-known facts about the dulcimer's origins on the early Appalachian frontier. The book then describes three major design traditions of the dulcimer, each centered in its own geographical area, and focuses on important makers in each of the three traditions-the Melton family of Galax, Virginia, Charles M. Prichard of Huntington, West Virginia, and "Uncle Ed" Thomas of Kentucky. A final chapter describes four Appalachian makers of the folk revival transition, who began making instruments the old-time way and modernized them to meet the needs of Post-World-War-II urban players. The book concludes with listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.

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