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A Short History of the Celts

By Alex Woolf

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9780306795640, titled "Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember" | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $47.00 | also contains Read ''Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember, Short History of the Celts

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9780292730557, titled "Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico" | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | also contains Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico, Short History of the Celts

Short History of the Celts

By Alex Woolf

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9781848857940 | Tauris Academic Studies, June 30, 2017, cover price $99.00

9780306795640, titled "Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember" | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $47.00 | also contains A Short History of the Celts, Read ''Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember

Paperback:

9781848857957 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, June 30, 2017, cover price $15.95

9780292730557, titled "Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico" | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | also contains A Short History of the Celts, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico

Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs

By Richard Polenberg

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9781501700026, titled "Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee", "John Henry", and Other Traditional American Folk Songs" | Cornell Univ Pr, November 3, 2015, cover price $26.00

Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations

By Greil Marcus

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Hardcover:

9780674187085 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 7, 2015, cover price $19.95

Fearless Negotiating

Product Description: In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s...read more

By Michael Donaldson

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9780521248273, titled "Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $59.95 | also contains Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records | About this edition: In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records.

Camp Songs, Folk Songs

Describes a vigorous folk tradition that long has been a rite of passage in this country for children and adolescents. Suggests developmental reasons 1,400 songs appeal to youngsters: biological, linguistic, and intellectual. Also looks at the values and hopes expressed in lyrics that appeal to teenagers, especially young women. 65 historic photographs. 19 in-depth studies of songs, some well known like "Kookaburra" and "Kumbaya." Others like "Flicker of a Camp Fire" and "Skyball Paint" are known only in camps.

By Patricia Averill

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9781493179114 | Xlibris Corp, May 27, 2014, cover price $34.99

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9781493179121 | Xlibris Corp, May 27, 2014, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Describes a vigorous folk tradition that long has been a rite of passage in this country for children and adolescents.

Afro American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music

Product Description: Published in 1914, this is a study in racial and national music. Includes folk songs, religion, modal characteristics, music among Africans, variations from the major and minor scales, dances, songs of black creoles and more.

By Henry Edward Krehbiel

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9780893410155 | Longwood Pr Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Paperback:

9781480109315, titled "Afro-american Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music" | Createspace Independent Pub, October 15, 2012, cover price $10.00 | also contains Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music | About this edition: Published in 1914, this is a study in racial and national music.

9781443773560, titled "Afro-american Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music" | Ward Pr, October 31, 2008, cover price $27.99 | also contains Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music | About this edition: PREFACE This book was written with the purpose of bringing a species of folksong into the field of scientific observation and presenting it as fit material for artistic treatment.

This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song

By Robert Santelli

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9780762443284 | Har/pstr edition (Running Pr Book Pub, March 13, 2012), cover price $24.00

Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi

Product Description: While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention...read more

By Erica Bornstein

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9780804770019 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 30, 2012, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give.

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9780804770026 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 30, 2012, cover price $22.95

9780252013140, titled "Moon in a Mason Jar: Poems" | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | also contains Moon in a Mason Jar: Poems

9780252011450, titled "The Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong" | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $18.95 | also contains The Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong

Fragments of Yesteryear

By Robert D. Morritt

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9781443824996 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $58.95

Life Flows on in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History

Product Description: Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience. Robert V. Wells discusses how folk songs emerged from particular historical circumstances and evolved as they migrated from one region to another...read more

By Robert V. Wells

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Hardcover:

9780252034558 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 12, 2009), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience.

Paperback:

9780252076503 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 12, 2009), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Life Flows on in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience.

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

Product Description: A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study...read more

By Roger Dev Renwick

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9781578063932 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 1, 2002, cover price $50.00

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9781604732542 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources.

9780138267698, titled "Spectrum 2: A Communicative Course in English : Teachers Edition/20266" | Regents/Prentice Hall, January 1, 1982, cover price $22.60 | also contains Spectrum 2: A Communicative Course in English : Teachers Edition/20266

American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia

Product Description: This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state...read more

By Norm Cohen

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9780313340475 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, September 30, 2008), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states.

Afro-American Folksongs

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9781436578851 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

9780722250709 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $88.00

Paperback:

9780806314297 | Reprint edition (Clearfield Co, December 1, 1993), cover price $21.50 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation And Identity in the United States And Canada, 1945-1980

By Gillian Mitchell

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9780754657569 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 30, 2007, cover price $149.95

Folk Music: A Regional Exploration

Product Description: American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days. Folk music scholar Norm Cohen presents a thorough exploration of the many ways in which folk music genres and subgenres have arisen in different regions of America...read more

By Norm Cohen

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9780313328725 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 30, 2005, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fiber of the nation since its earliest days.

Waltz The Hall: The American Play Party

Product Description: What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle to be the devil's instrument? The American play party was the fundamentalist's answer. Here the singing was a cappella, the dancers followed prescribed steps, and arm and elbow swings would be the only touching...read more

By Alan L. Spurgeon

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9781578067428 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: What did young people do for diversion and socialization in communities that banned most dancing and considered the fiddle to be the devil's instrument?

Miscellaneous:

9781617030789 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 11, 2005, cover price $50.00

The Shaker Spiritual

Product Description: The largest and most balanced collection of its type to date, this volume presents 366 songs from the Shaker repertory. In addition, it features quotes from interviews and unpublished diaries, numerous photographs of Shaker singers and villages, reconstructions and diagrams of nearly 20 Shaker dances and marches, a checklist of 800 Shaker song manuscripts, and a survey of British antecedents of the American folk spiritual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Daniel W. Patterson

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Hardcover:

9780691091242 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1979, cover price $120.00

Paperback:

9780486413754 | 2 edition (Dover Pubns, August 1, 2000), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The largest and most balanced collection of its type to date, this volume presents 366 songs from the Shaker repertory.

The Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong

Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from John Henry and The Wabash Cannonball to Hell-Bound Train and Casey Jones, with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition. (view table of contents)

By Norm Cohen

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9780252003431, titled "Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong" | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1981, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong.

Paperback:

9780252068812, titled "Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong" | 2 sub edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $36.00

9780252011450 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $18.95 | also contains Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi

When We Were Good: The Folk Revival

By Robert Cantwell

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Hardcover:

9780674951327 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780674951334 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, April 25, 1997), cover price $47.50

Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.

Product Description: Among the first and finest studies of African-American folk music, this book focuses primarily on the origins and musical qualities of typical genres ranging from simple cries and calls to anthems and spirituals, ballads and the blues...read more

By Harold Courlander

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9780486273501 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, December 4, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Among the first and finest studies of African-American folk music, this book focuses primarily on the origins and musical qualities of typical genres ranging from simple cries and calls to anthems and spirituals, ballads and the blues.

Songsters and Saints

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By Paul Oliver

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9780521269421 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $44.99

Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records

By Paul Oliver

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9780521248273 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $59.95 | also contains Fearless Negotiating | About this edition: In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records.

A Folk Song History of America: America Through Its Songs

Describes the historical background of more than eighty American folk songs, and explains their musical structure and evolution

By Samuel L. Forcucci

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9780133231304 | Prentice Hall, August 1, 1984, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes the historical background of more than eighty American folk songs, and explains their musical structure and evolution

The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story

Product Description: Eight epochs of American folk heritage are covered in this collection: Chapter IâThe Colonial Period (The British Heritage and Colonial Songs and Ballads); Chapter IIâThe American Revolution; Chapter IIIâThe Early National Period; Chapter IVâJacksonian America (Sea and ImmigraÂtion, The Westward Movement, and Slavery Days); Chapter VâThe Civil War (Freedom Songs); Chapter VIâBetween the Civil War and the First World War (Farmers and Workers, Immigrants, and The Negro PeoÂple); Chapter VIIâBetween Two World Wars; and Chapter VIIIâSince the War...read more

By John Anthony Scott

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9780809310616 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Eight epochs of American folk heritage are covered in this collection: Chapter IâThe Colonial Period (The British Heritage and Colonial Songs and Ballads); Chapter IIâThe American Revolution; Chapter IIIâThe Early National Period; Chapter IVâJacksonian America (Sea and ImmigraÂtion, The Westward Movement, and Slavery Days); Chapter VâThe Civil War (Freedom Songs); Chapter VIâBetween the Civil War and the First World War (Farmers and Workers, Immigrants, and The Negro PeoÂple); Chapter VIIâBetween Two World Wars; and Chapter VIIIâSince the War.

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