folk music

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folk music

Elizabeth's song

2002
A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong "Freight Train.".

Las Navidades

popular Christmas songs from Latin America
1990
A bilingual collection of popular Christmas songs from Latin America, illustrated to depict the Hispanic culture's rich and exuberant holiday celebrations.

Blowin' in the wind

2011
Presents the illustrated lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind," and includes a CD of Dylan's original 1963 recording.

A folk song history of America

America through its songs
1984
Describes the historical background of more than eighty American folk songs, and explains their musical structure and evolution.

American folk tales and songs

and other examples of English-American tradition as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere in the United States
1971
A republication of a 1956 text that presents samples of the lore of Americans who, whatever their origins across the Atlantic Ocean, are bound together by a common use of the English language; including folktales, ballads, songs, hymns, games and country dances, fiddle tunes, prayers, jokes, and poems.

Hawaiian playground

2008
Presents a collection of ten Hawaiian songs sung in both English and Hawaiian.

African playground

2003
A collection of African pop music from around the continent.

The Great rounds songbook

1985
An illustrated collection of 116 rounds from around the world, with lyrics, melody lines, background information, and instructions for singing.

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