This richly illustrated three-volume set is a treasure for connoisseurs of European culture and history. It is accompanied by audio recordings of 2...

Since the 1960s historical studies of European folk and traditional music have had a centre in the 'Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music...

Indian music is vast like an ocean, so deep that its depths can hardly be fathomed. It is said that the unique beauty of Indian music lies between ...

This book brings together a wide range of contemporary explorations of Indigenous music and dance in the Torres Strait and the tropical regions of ...

Lumberman Larry Gorman was no respecter of borders -- nor of anything else, it seems. From the time he was a young man growing up on Prince Edward ...

The roots of Bluegrass music developed for hundreds of years with dulcimers, fiddles, banjos, jew harps, and mouth bows from the Appalachian mounta...

In the book My Grandfather, Artem Erkomaishvili, the musical biography of the great Georgian singer-chanter Artem Erkomaishvili is described. He wa...

In the book My Grandfather, Artem Erkomaishvili, the musical biography of the great Georgian singer-chanter Artem Erkomaishvili is described. He wa...

In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist thro...

The songs in this book are a sampling of the urban folk songs of Greece during the first half of the 20th century. They are the creative expression...

Attended by tens of thousands of people each August, it's the longest continually running folk festival in America. These pages capture 55 years of...

SOUNDS OF IDENTITY: THE MUSIC OF AFRO-ASIANS "concerns the survival of musical traditions among Africans who were displaced to Asia. Memories of th...