folk music
For folk music of a specific ethnic group, an additional subject entry is made under the heading [ethnic group--place -- Music.]
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Folk music -- Appalachian Region
- Folk music -- Congresses
- Folk music -- England
- Folk music -- Europe
- Folk music -- Great Britain
- Folk music -- Great Lakes (North America)
- Folk music -- History and criticism
- Folk music -- Hungary
- Folk music -- Ireland
- Folk music -- Italy
- Folk music -- Jamaica
- Folk music -- Library resources
- Folk music -- New England
- Folk music -- Papua New Guinea
- Folk music -- Periodicals
- Folk music -- Russia (Federation)
- Folk music -- Southern States
- Folk music -- Sri Lanka
- Folk music -- United States
- Folk music -- Yugoslavia
- Folk dance music
- Folk songs
- Ethnic music
- Traditional music
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Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Sawin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Sounds of the South: A Report and Selected Papers from a Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music, Held in Chapel Hill, April 6-8, 1989, to Celebrate the Opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, 1991), ed. by Daniel W. Patterson, contrib. by Michael T. Casey, George M. Holt, Bess Lomax Hawes, Bill C. Malone, Paul Oliver, Thomas Carter, Ray Funk, Norm Cohen, Tim West, Barry Jean Ancelet, Allen Tullos, David E. Whisnant, and Archie Green (page images at HathiTrust)
- Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies, and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries, 1882), ed. by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
- Des Bohémiens et de Leur Musique en Hongrie (new edition, in French; Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel, 1881), by Franz Liszt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby, With Some Account of Allied Subjects, Including O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish or Union Pipes, and Touhey's Hints to Amateur Pipers (Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1910), by Francis O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("fascicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("fascicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sui Canti Popolari di Alimena: Lettera a Giuseppe Pitrè (in Italian; Palermo: Tipografia Priulla, 1871), by Michele Messina-Faulisi
- Canti Popolari Romani, Con un Saggio di Canti del Lazio, e Uno Studio Sulle Melodie Romane, Con Note Musicali (in Italian; Turin: S.T.E.N., 1910), by Giggi Zanazzo, contrib. by Alessandro Parisotti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Canti Popolari Romani, Con un Saggio di Canti del Lazio, e Uno Studio Sulle Melodie Romane, Con Note Musicali (in Italian; Bologna: A. Forni, originally published 1910), by Giggi Zanazzo, contrib. by Alessandro Parisotti
- Canti Popolari Romani, Con un Saggio di Canti del Lazio, e Uno Studio Sulle Melodie Romane, Con Note Musicali (in Italian; Turin: S.T.E.N., 1910), by Giggi Zanazzo, contrib. by Alessandro Parisotti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Canti Popolari Romani, Con un Saggio di Canti del Lazio, e Uno Studio Sulle Melodie Romane, Con Note Musicali (in Italian; Bologna: A. Forni, originally published 1910), by Giggi Zanazzo, contrib. by Alessandro Parisotti
- Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2005), by Ivan Walton, ed. by Joe Grimm (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Jewish Music in its Historical Development (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1929), by A. Z. Idelsohn (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)
- Jewish Music in its Historical Development (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1929), by A. Z. Idelsohn (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Roald Maliangkay
- Jewish Music in its Historical Development (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1929), by A. Z. Idelsohn (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cheremis Musical Styles (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1960), by Bruno Nettl, contrib. by Thomas A. Sebeok (HTML with commentary at Indiana)
- Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)
- Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society #55; London: D. Nutt, 1907), ed. by Walter Jekyll, contrib. by Alice Werner, Charles Samuel Myers, and Lucy Etheldred Broadwood
- Folklife Resources in the Library of Congress (revised edition, 1994), by Timothy Charles Lloyd and Hillary Glatt (PDF at ed.gov)
- Northern Junket (1949-1984; with index and commentary), ed. by Ralph Page (full serial archives)
- Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (Canberra: ANU Press, c2015), by James F. Weiner and Don Niles
- The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist (1958-1968) (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society (full serial archives)
- Journal of the Folk-Song Society (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society (full serial archives)
- Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (full serial archives)
- Journal of the Folk-Song Society (partial serial archives)
- Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (full serial archives)
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
- Vedda Music (reprinted from C. G. and Brenda Seligman's The Veddas; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1911), by Charles S. Myers
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
- The American Songbag (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), ed. by Carl Sandburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)
- Man, Bird, and Beast (Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society v8; Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, c1930), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
- The American Songbag (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), ed. by Carl Sandburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano (Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1905), ed. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, contrib. by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form (privately printed, 1927), ed. by Arthur Mackay (HTML at horntip.com)
- The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1925), ed. by James Weldon Johnson, contrib. by J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
- Singing Games and Dances (New York: Association Press, c1957), ed. by David S. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Folk Dances of Different Nations (3 volumes in 1; New York: L. H. Chalif, c1926), ed. by Louis H. Chalif (page images at HathiTrust)
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