folk music

A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh.".

Presents an introduction to North American folk music, providing a definition of folk music, and discussing origins, instruments, and the musical expressions of different regions and races.

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.".

A boy and his family befriend a country fiddler who teaches the boy how to play old tunes, which the boy promises to help keep alive.

A collection of children's folk songs from Latin America, with music.

Uses the music and lyrics of thirteen Afro-American songs as a focal point for relating the history of the African-American experience and for telling American musical history.

An illustrated biography of Woody Guthrie, composer of "This Land Is Your Land," and over three thousand other folk songs and ballads, telling about his travels throughout the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century, and discussing how his experiences influenced his music.

A songbook of African folk songs and music with pictures and captions.

Presents a comprehensive study of folk music in America examining cowboy and Midwestern ballads, railroad songs, slave spirituals, Appalachian music, and discusses the different genres and regions throughout the nation.

Discusses the essence and development of various forms of Negro folk music, both vocal and instrumental, including ballads, blues, spirituals, work songs, Louisiana Creole songs, cries, dances, and game songs. Includes words and music for forty-three songs, and discographies.