This ground-breaking book is the first-ever study of the role played in musical history by
song collectors. This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music's unsung heroes …

There is a telling statement on the last page of this intriguing book. Having questioned how
long Albanian Lab polyphony and Vietnamese ca trù can survive in today's world, Church …

This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the
world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots and shows the contributions …

I AM here to-day in a dual capacity. First, as President of the English Folk Dance and Song
Society, I have the pleasure and honour to greet here the members of the International Folk …

Music scholarship on song, particularly folk song, notes the links between songs, oral
history, and cultural memory. Songs are viewed as expressing the social rules, reflecting the …

During this age of mass media, the world's true folk music has declined for many years.
Journalist Michael Church, an esteemed British music critic, makes a serious effort to …

Revisiting earlier collectors and their collections provides valuable insight into disciplinary
history, illustrating theoretical motivation as well as the resulting collectanea. Folk song is …

Page 1 COMPOSER NATION: T(?e folk Heritage in Music by SIDNEY FINKELSTEIN A study of
national expression in music and the use of folk and popular music by the great composers from …

Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk
matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid …

"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of
the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it."--Bruno Nettl"... a …