Audio Resources for Country/Folk/Traditional Music
These audio resources can be checked out in person from the Media Services counter in HSS 127.
- Anthology of American folk music [sound recording] / edited by Harry Smith.
- Appalachians [sound recording] : music rough guide.
- Birds, beasts, bugs & fishes, little & big [sound recording] / Pete Seeger.
- Classic mountain songs from Smithsonian Folkways [sound recording].
- Corridos & tragedias de la frontera [sound recording] : first recordings of historic Mexican-American ballads (1928-37)
- Legacy [sound recording] / Doc Watson, David Holt.
- Muleskinner blues [sound recording] : The Asch recordings, vol. 2.
- Oh my little darling [sound recording] : folk song types.
- Public domain [sound recording] : songs from the wild land / Dave Alvin.
- The Carter Family [sound recording] : [1927-1934 : A.P., Sara, Maybelle].
- The folk years [sound recording] : a singers and songwriters collection.
- The window up above [sound recording] : American songs 1770-1998.
- This land is your land [sound recording] : the Asch recordings vol. 1.
Print resources for Country/Folk/Traditional Music
Here are some resources that can help get you started on research into more traditional and/or folk oriented research.
- Born in the U.S.A. : Bruce Springsteen and the American tradition / Jim Cullen ; foreword by Daniel Cavicchi.
- Country : a regional exploration / Ivan Tribe.
- Country music originals [electronic resource] : the legends & the lost / Tony Russell.
- Ethnic and border music : a regional exploration / edited by Norm Cohen.
- Great songs-- of folk music : [piano, vocal, guitar] / edited by Milton Okun.
- It still moves : lost songs, lost highways, and the search for the next American music / Amanda Petrusich.
- Millennium folk : American folk music since the sixties / Thomas R. Gruning.
- Native American song at the frontiers of early modern music / Olivia A. Bloechl.
- Prophet singer : the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie / Mark Allan Jackson.
- Proud to be an Okie : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / Peter La Chapelle.
- Ruth Crawford Seeger's worlds : innovation and tradition in twentieth-century American music / edited by Ray Allen and Ellie M. Hisama.
- Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century / Charles Hiroshi Garrett.
- The folksong fake book : a collection of 1000 folksongs from around the world : melody, lyrics, chords.
- The Grand ole opry : the making of an American icon / Colin Escott ; Brenda Colladay, photo editor.
- Traveling home : Sacred harp singing and American pluralism / Kiri Miller.
- Which side are you on? : an inside story of the folk music revival in America / Dick Weissman.
- Worlds of sound : the story of Smithsonian Folkways / Richard Carlin in association with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Databases and Audiostreams
The Child Ballads
Francis J. Childs (February 1, 1825–September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educationist, and folklorist, who collected what came to be known as the Child Ballads.
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