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List created by Len S. (lens) - , on May 3, 2010
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The Resisting Muse: Popular Music And Social Protest (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music ...
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As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport by Peter Case
Legendary folk-rocker Peter Case is documenting his trailblazing life in a full-length memoir. Case's bands The Nerves and The Plimsouls helped define the LA punk and alternative rock scenes, and his solo work helped usher in the Americana music phenomenon. The beginning of Cases story is As Far...  more

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The History of American Folk Music (Music Library) by Adam Woog
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott: The Never-Ending Highway (American Folk Music and Musicians) b...
This professional biography of Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) examines the music and milestones of the American folksinger's half-century career, detailing his role in the preservation of the music of Woody Guthrie and his mentoring of and influence on Bob Dylan. The book also provides a...  more

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Early Dylan by Jim Marshall & Arlo Guthrie & Barry Feinstein & Daniel Kra...
Dylan has secured the status of a cultural icon who appeals as much to the generation of today as to his contemporaries. EARLY DYLAN presents rare pictures of Dylan's early years by three leading rock photographers. Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer, and Jim Marshall were alongside Dylan from the...  more

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Arlo, Alice, and Anglicans by Laura Lee
An entire generation fondly remembers Arlo Guthrie's song “Alice's Restaurant” and director Arthur Penn's film of the same name. In the song's mixture of whimsy and anger, moral outrage and absurdist humor, disaffected and disillusioned young people recognized themselves and their own...  more

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Living In The Woods In A Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (North Texas Lives of Musician...
Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949-1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, "If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a...  more

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide To American Folk Music by Kip Lornell
Bluegrass and Ballads. Chicken Scratch and Gospel. Polka and Powwows. Perhaps Mike Seeger summed it up best: when asked what genres come under the rubric of American Folk he said, "All the music that fits between the cracks." And all that music is in this unique volume. THE PERFORMERS,...  more

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The Train They Call the City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman
Good morning, America, how are you? Said don't you know me? I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans. I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. This classic tune captured the timeless soul of the American countryside and the golden era when people crossed...  more

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John Prine by John Prine
He's been described as funny, sober, and irreverant, and this collection of songs shows you why. Includes: Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore * Sam Stone * Illegal Smile * Angel from Montgomery and ten others.

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To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as "Pancho & Lefty" and "If I Needed You." Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hounded by alcoholism and depression, Van Zandt pursued a nomadic existence following his muse,...  more

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Folk Blues: The Encyclopedia : The Premier Encyclopedia Of American Roots Music by I...
Folk and blues remain vibrant and alive today and have been enjoying a new boom as audiences rediscover such blues performers as Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, and Bessie Smith, and folk artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan. The excitement and impact of these musical forms...  more

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Which Side Are You On?: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America by Dic...
In 1932 Florence Reece, the wife of a Kentucky coal miner, wrote one of the classic topical songs preserved in the folk musical revival. The song, "Which Side Are You On?," contrasts the lot of the working class and the bosses, and asks the listener to choose. This politically charged song was...  more

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Nanci Griffith's Other Voices : A Personal History of Folk Music by Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith's distinct blend of pop, rockabilly, and folk has made her one of the most respected, popular, and loved singer-songwriters working today. Having released fourteen of her own critically acclaimed albums as well as recording countless guest appearances on other artists' albums and...  more

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This Is the Arlo Guthrie Book. by Arlo. Guthrie
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Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 by Ronald D. Co...
For a brief period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, folk music captured a mass audience in the United States, as college students and others swarmed to concerts by the likes of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. In this comprehensive study, Ronald D. Cohen reconstructs the...  more

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Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere by Unknown Author
1925. This work consists of a list of references in the New York Public Library with regard to the folk music of the American continents. The compiler endeavored to make the material represented in the Library available to its readers and to offer the student a bibliographical basis for the...  more

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Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. by Harold Courlander
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. Traditional dances and musical instruments are examined as...  more

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Performance And Popular Music: History, Place And Time (Ashgate Popular and Folk Musi...
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Remembering Woodstock (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) by Unknown Author
The Woodstock festival of 1969, which featured such groups and artists as the Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, is remembered as much for its 'bringing together' of the counter-cultural generation as for the music performed. The event represented a...  more

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I'd Give My Life - A Journey by Folk Music by Erik Darling
Darling's journey involved the formation of the Tarriers, with actor Alan Arkin, and creating the massive hit The Banana Boat Song, making the Tarriers the first group after the famous Weavers to gain worldwide fame through the singing of folk music, thus preparing the way for the Kingston Trio...  more

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Music, Space And Place: Popular Music And Cultural Identity (Ashgate Popular and Folk...
Music, Space and Place examines the urban and rural spaces in which music is experienced, produced and consumed. The editors of this collection have brought together new and exciting perspectives by international researchers and scholars working in the field of popular music studies....  more

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The Folk Music Sourcebook (Da Capo Paperback) by Larry Sandberg & Dick Weissman
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White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities And 1980s Indie Guitar Rock (Ashgate Popular a...
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Sing My Whole Life Long: Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism (Countercult...
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The Music and Art of Radiohead (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) by Unknown Aut...
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Speak To Me: The Legacy Of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon (Ashgate Popular an...
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Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations (Ashgate Pop...
Twenty years after the release of her first album, Madonna remains one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The release of three albums and two sold-out world tours since 2000 alone have renewed media and academic...  more

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Every Sound There Is: The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll (...
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The Nightwatchman: One Man Revolution by The Nightwatchman
Matching folio to Tom Morello's solo release featuring his brand of political folksongs. 13 tracks, including: Battle Hymns * Let Freedom Ring * One Man Revolution * The Road I Must Travel * and more.

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Tom Morello: Rolling Stone, Lock Up (American band), Rage Against the Machine, Audios...
Tom Morello. Rolling Stone, Lock Up (American band), Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman, Rage Against the Machine reunion tour, Street Sweeper Social Club, Axis of Justice, Tom Morello discography.

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U2 by U2 by U2 & Neil McCormick
In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to sing. Over thirty years...  more

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Cash : The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the...  more

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Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad
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Comment added 5/3/10 by Len S. (lens) - , :
"Busking" is the act of singing in public in return for spare change and the dissemination of the singer's music. This list plays on the pun "singing for change" by listing artists and musical styles that brought about change in America.