Folk Music

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African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story
Conforth, Bruce M.
Book
2013
Story of the collection of African American folk music compiled by Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, the recordings were adopted by the American Left as the voice of the American prol...
Almanac Singers: Connexipedia Article
Article
Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
American Folksong Woody Guthrie
Guthrie, Woody; (edited by Moses Asch)
Book
1947
Asch, Moses: Connexipedia Article
Article
Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
Bound for Glory
Guthrie, Woody
Book
1943
The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
Folkways Records: Connexipedia Article
Article
A record label that documents folk and world music.
Labour Songs
Green, Archie
Audio
1991
1950-1985. ...
Little Boxes and other handmade songs
Reynolds, Malvina
Book
1964
The best songs I write turn out to be something like folks songs because these traditional pieces say things the way I want to say them and am impelled to say them; they mean to speak surely and quiet...
The Man Who Recorded the World : A Biography of Alan Lomax
Szweed, John
Book
2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
The People's Song Book
Hille, Waldemar (ed.)
Book
1948
Songs of protest and affirmation. Foreword by Alan Lomax; preface by B.A. Botkin.
Phil Ochs Lives!: "There But For Fortune"
Simmons, Michael
Article
2011
Phil Ochs and his influence.
Seeger, Pete: Connexipedia Article
Article
American folk singer. (Born 1919).
Sex-Pol: Essays 1929-1934
Reich, Wilhelm; (Baxandall, Lee, ed.)
Book
1934
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
Un Canadien errant
GĂ©rin-Lajoie, M.A.
Unclassified
1842
A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians...
The Weavers: Connexipedia Article
Article
American folk music quartet.

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