Folk Music

This anthology presents translations of 30 songs recorded from a living epic tradition over the past two hundred years. The authors have captured the distinctive poetic language of Russian oral epics. All subgenres of the Russian epic are covered and previously untranslated variants included...

An anthology that covers Russian folktales, legends, and anecdotes. It contains 114 tales that represent various genres found in the Russian tradition dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries and come from various geographic regions of the Russian-speaking world...

Originally published in 1973. This book tells the life story of John Maguire, including over 50 of the songs he sang, with full musical transcriptions. Firmly within the Irish tradition, his songs are the record of a people, their history and traditions...

Originally published in 1973. This book tells the life story of John Maguire, including over 50 of the songs he sang, with full musical transcriptions. Firmly within the Irish tradition, his songs are the record of a people, their history and traditions...

Originally published in 1969. A general and scholarly introduction examining in detail the history and origins of folk music and going on to show the nature and vast amount, with a wealth of examples from around the world. Discussion of the differences of national idiom leads on to a comparison of B..

Originally published in 1969. A general and scholarly introduction examining in detail the history and origins of folk music and going on to show the nature and vast amount, with a wealth of examples from around the world. Discussion of the differences of national idiom leads on to a comparison of B..

Originally published in 1987. This book presents songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy, both upper and lower deck: war, ship’s routine, aviation, submarines, the antics of dockyard personnel, not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures...

Originally published in 1987. This book presents songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy, both upper and lower deck: war, ship’s routine, aviation, submarines, the antics of dockyard personnel, not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures...

Originally published in 1983. This innovative book is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium...

Originally published in 1983. This innovative book is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium...

Originally published in 1995. This book’s collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions, chronologically including scholars whose views mark pivotal moments and each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on ..

Originally published in 1995. This book’s collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions, chronologically including scholars whose views mark pivotal moments and each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on ..