Folk Music

  • Folk Music: The Basics
    By Ronald Cohen

    Other folk clubs included the Gaslight, Trudy Heller's Versailles, Fred Weintraub's Bitter End (previously the Cock 'n' Bull and later owned by Paul Colby), Rick Allmen's Café Bizarre, Manny Roth's Café Wha?, Feenjon's (featuring ...

  • Folk Music: A Regional Exploration
    By Norm Cohen

    An exploration of folk music and the ways in which it has evolved in different regions of the United States.

  • Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
    By Mark Slobin

    This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk ...

  • Folk Music: The Basics
    By Ronald D. Cohen

    Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Sandberg, Larry and Dick Weissman. The Folk Music Sourcebook. New York: Da Capo, 1989. Sandburg, Carl. The American Songbag.

  • Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
    By Greil Marcus

    Tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others.

  • Folk Music: The Basics
    By Ronald D. Cohen

    Folk Music: TheBasics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. It is an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style.