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ABRAHAMS & FOSS, Roger D & George. 1968. ANGLO-AMERICAN FOLKSONG STYLE.. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.. 2398-USA-GEN. HB DC 230x145 242pp music. BALLAD MUSIC ORAL POETRY SONG STUDY. USA

AGEE & EVANS, James & Walker. 1939/1972. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. Three Tenant Families. Houghton Mifflin/ Ballantine, New York.. 1094- USA-GEN. PB 180x110 428pp photos. AGRICULTURE FARMING HARDTIMES HISTORY POVERTY SOCIOLOGY STUDY. USA

ANGELL/FISHER, James Rowland/ Sterling. 1944. MUSIC OF THE NEW WORLD. NBC Broadcasts of Inter-American "University of the Air". Southern Music, New York.. 1288-USA-GEN. PB 230x150 48pp. BIBLIOG CAJUN CARNIVAL DISCOG HYMNS INDIANS JAZZ MINSTREL MOUNTAIN MUSIC RADIO STUDY. USA

APPEL & HILLER, Barbara G/ Carl E. 1965. 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNTRY DANCE SOCIETY OF America.. CDS, New York.. 1229-USA-GEN. PB 190x190 32pp photos. ENGLISH DANCE MORRIS SONG SWORD. USA. ENGLAND

BOTKIN, B A. 1946. AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE.. Pilot Press, London.. 0417- USA-GEN. HB DC 220x140 340pp music. BALLAD CHILDREN FOLKLORE LEGEND STORY SONG. USA

BRAND, Oscar. 1962. BALLAD MONGERS, THE. rise of the modern folk song. Minerva Press/ Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto, Canada.. 4142-USA-GEN. PB 200x130 240pp no illustr. BIBLIOG COLLECTING POPULAR PERFORMING PROTEST SONG. USA NEW-YORK

CAMPBELL, John C. 1921. SOUTHERN HIGHLANDER AND HIS HOMELAND, THE.. Russell Sage Foundation, New York.. 2323-USA-GEN. HB 230x150 405pp photographs. BIBLIOG GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION HISTORY MOUNTAIN RELIGION. USA GERMANY IRELAND SCOTLAND

CASWELL, John Edwards. 1956. ARCTIC FRONTIERS. United States Explorations in the Far North. Univ Oklahoma, Norman.. 0039-USA-GEN. HB 210x140 232pp photos/maps signed by author. EXPLORATION FRANKLIN HISTORY. USA ARCTIC

CAUDILL, Rebecca. 1966. MY APPALACHIA. A Reminiscence with photos by Edward Wallowitch. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York.. 2099-USA-GEN. HB DC 280x215 90pp photos. AUTOBIOG PHOTOS TRAVEL. USA APPALACHIA

CHARTERS, Samuel B. 1958/1963. JAZZ - NEW ORLEANS - 1885-1963. An Index to Negro Musicians of New Orleans. Walter C Allen/ Oak Publ, New York.. 0667-USA-GEN. PB 220x140 173pp map/photos. BANDS DISCOG HISTORY JAZZ. USA NEW-ORLEANS

CLARKE, Kenneth & Mary. 1965. CONCISE DICTIONARY OF FOLKLORE, A.. West Kentucky State College, Bowling Green.. 2088-USA-GEN. PB 205x140 37pp. FOLKLORE GLOSSARY LANGUAGE. USA

COFFIN, Tristram, III. 1968. AMERICAN FOLKLORE. Voice of America Forum Lectures. United States Information Services.. 1016-USA-GEN. PB 210x135 325pp music/photo. BALLAD CHILDREN DANCE FOLKLORE GAME NEGRO PROVERB RELIGION RIDDLE SPEECH STORY STUDY. USA

COFFIN & COHEN, Tristram P & Hennig. 1966. FOLKLORE IN AMERICA. Selected from The Journal of American Folklore. Doubleday & Co, New York.. 2555-USA-GEN. HB 210x135 256pp music. CUSTOMS DRAMA FESTIVALS FOLKLORE GAMES PROVERB RIDDLE SONG STORY SUPERSTITION. USA

COFFIN & COHEN, Tristram Potter & Hennig. 1973/4. FOLKLORE FROM THE WORKING FOLK OF AMERICA. Selected from Leading Journals and Archives. Anchor/ Doubleday, New York.. 4134-USA-GEN. PB 180x105 468pp music. BUGLE CHILDREN FOLKLORE GAMES INDIANS NEGRO POETRY RHYME RIDDLE SHANTY SONG SPEECH STORY WORK. USA

COOKE, Alistair. 1973. Alistair Cooke's AMERICA.. BBC, London.. 1338- USA-GEN. HB DC 280x200 400pp photos inc clr. AUTOBIOG LIFE RADIO SOCIAL STUDY. USA

FORD, Thomas R. 1962. SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION, THE: A Survey.. Univ Kentucky Press, Lexington.. 2097-USA-GEN. HB DC 280x210 308pp maps/tables. ART CHILDREN DANCE GAME GEOG LIFE RELIGION SOCIETY. USA KENTUCKY APPALACHIANS

FURLONG, Charles Wellington. 1921. LET 'ER BUCK - A Story of the Passing of the West.. G P Putnam's Knickerbocker Press, NY & London.. 1690-USA-GEN. HB 250x145 242pp photos. BULL CATTLE COWBOYS HORSES RIDING. USA

GLASSIE, Henry. 1968. PATTERN IN THE MATERIAL FOLKCULTURE OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES.. Univ Pennsylvania, PA, USA.. 1085-USA-GEN. PB 200x140 324pp map photos drwgs. AGRICULTURE BANJOES BIBLIOG BUILDING FURNITURE LIFE PLOUGHS. USA

GOLDSTEIN, Kenneth S. 1964. GUIDE TO FIELD WORKERS IN FOLKLORE. Pref Hamish Henderson. Folklore Associates, Pennsylvania/ Herbert Jenkins, London.. 4052-USA-GEN. HB 235x140 200pp. COLLECTING EDUCATION FIELDWORK FOLKLORE METHODOLOGY RECORDING. USA SCOTLAND

GUTHRIE/ SHELTON, Woody/ Robert. 1965. BORN TO WIN. Stories, Drawings, Letters, Poems, Songs & Snatches. Macmillan, New York.. 0383-USA-GEN. PB 230x150 250pp drawings. COMPOSITION POETRY POLITICS PROTEST SOCIOLOGY SONG. USA

HEIMLICH, Evelyn Phillips. 1965. SPECIALIZED USE OF MUSIC AS A MODE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE TREATMENT OF DISTURBED CHILDREN, THE.. Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry.. 1448-USA-GEN. PB 225x150 36pp chalk-work illustr. CHILDREN EDUCATION. USA

HORN, David. 1972. LITERATURE OF AMERICAN MUSIC, THE. A fully annotated catalogue of the books and song collections in the EU Library. Exeter Unversity, Devon.. 1028-USA-GEN. SB 215x150 170pp. BOOK CATALOG INDEX LIBRARY MUSIC SONG. USA

KOUWENHOVEN, John A. 1938. ADVENTURES OF AMERICA 1857-1900. Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. Harper & brothers, New York.. 0970-USA- GEN. HB DC 300x225 255 plates. HISTORY LIFE PICTURES. USA

LAWRENCE, Elizabeth Attwood. 1982. RODEO. An Anthropologist looks at the wild and tame. Univ of Tenn, Knoxville. Purch Paul Smith 1987. 2938-USA-GEN. HB DC 230x150 288pp photos. BIBLIOG COWBOY HORSES RODEO. USA

LEACH & GLASSIE, MacEdward & Henry. 1968/1973. GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS OF ORAL TRADITIONS AND FOLK CULTURAL MATERIAL IN PENNSYLVANIA, A.. Pennsylvania Museum Commission.. 1079-USA-GEN. PB 230x150 70pp/photos. COLLECTING CUSTOMS FOLKLORE DANCE ORAL PROVERB RIDDLE SONG SPEECH STORY RECORDING. USA

LEE & ROBERSON, Hector H & Donald. 1963. LORE OF OUR LAND. A Book of American Folklore. Harper & Row, Evanston, Illinois.. 1227-USA-GEN. HB 230x170 328pp illustr/maps. BIBLIOG CHILDREN EDUCATION FOLKLORE SONG STORY. USA

McCARTHY/HARRISON, Albert/Max & others. 1968. JAZZ ON RECORD. Indispensable Guide to Recorded Jazz 1917-1967. Hanover Books, London.. 0865-USA-GEN. PB 220x150 416pp. BANDS BLUES DISCOG JAZZ HISTORY WORKSONG. USA

McGINNIS, R J. 1960. GOOD OLD DAYS, THE: An Invitation to Memory.. F & W Publ, Cincinatti, Ohio.. 1340-USA-GEN. HB 330x245 256pp photos, some colour. FARMING LIFE PHOTOS. USA

NETTL, Bruno. 1962. INTRODUCTION TO FOLK MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES, AN.. Wayne State Univ Press, Detroit.. 2340-USA-GEN. PB 200x135 127pp music. COLLECTING DEFINITION IMMIGRATION INDIAN PERFORMING SONG STUDY. USA

NYE, Hermes. 1965. HOW TO BE A FOLKSINGER. How to sing & present folksongs or The Folksinger's Guide. Oak Publications, New York.. 0714-USA-GEN. PB 185x135 160pp music/photos Signed by author. ACCOMPANIMENT GUITAR PERFORMANCING POPULAR SONGS STUDY. USA

ORTON, Vrest. 1973. AMERICAN CIDER BOOK, THE.. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York.. 1359-USA-GEN. PB 200x135 136pp drwgs photos plates. CIDER DRINK FOOD HISTORY RECIPES. USA

PATTERSON & JOINES, Daniel W & John E. 1981. BEING A JOINES: A Life in the Brushy Mountains. (Transcr film soundtrack: AAFS disc in Archive). Folklore Dept, Univ North Carolina, Chapel Hill.. 1230-USA-GEN. PB 215x175 44pp. COLLECTING FILM FOLKLORE SPEECH STORY. USA

PEARSON, Henry Greenleaf. 1932. SON OF NEW ENGLAND. James Jackson Storrow 1864-1926. Thomas Todd, Boston. Gift of MK. 2830-USA-GEN. HB 230x150 292pp photos. BIOGRAPHICAL BUSINESS GOVERNMENT. USA MASS

PORTER, Eliot. 1973. APPALACHIAN WILDERNESS: The Great Smoky Mountains.. Ballantine Books, New York.. 2452-USA-GEN. PB 300x215 120pp clr photos. ENVIRONMENT GEOGRAPHY HISTORIC PHOTOS TRAVEL. USA APPALACHIA

PORTERFIELD, Nolan. 1996 : The Life and Times of John A.Lomax, 1867-1948.. University of Illinois Press. Proof Copy. 1981-USA-GEN A08 PB Spiral bound 230x150 560pp. BIOG COLLECTING HISTORIC LOMAX SONG. USA

POWER, Robert H. 1974. FRANCIS DRAKE AND SAN FRANCISCO BAY. A Beginning of the British Empire. Univ of California, Davis.. 2861-USA- GEN. PB 230x150 30pp/ Limited Edition signed by author. DRAKE EXPLORATION HISTORIC RESEARCH STUDY. USA CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

RAINE, James Watt. 1924. LAND OF SADDLE-BAGS, THE. A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia. Council Women Missionary Educ Mvmt, N Y.. 2510-USA-GEN. HB 200x135 260pp photos/music. BALLAD DIALECT DRINK FIGHTING MOUNTAIN RELIGION SOCIAL TRAVEL. USA

RINZLER & WILLIAMS, Ralph & Stacey. 1965. NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL: Program book.. Newport Folk Foundation, New York.. 1319-USA-GEN. PB 280x215 64pp drwgs photos. DYLAN FESTIVAL FLUTE HARMONICA NEGRO PERFORMING ROCKMUSIC SEEGER. USA NEWPORT RHODE-ISLAND CANADA CAPE- BRETON

RITCHIE, Jean. 1956. SINGING FAMILY OF THE CUMBERLANDS.. Oxford University Press, New York.. 0381-USA-GEN. HB DC 205x135 282pp music drwgs. AUTOBIOG MOUNTAIN ORAL RELIGION SOCIAL SONG. USA KENTUCKY

RUSSELL, Tony. 1973. CARTER FAMILY, THE.. Old Time Music, London.. 3010-USA-GEN. PB 285x210 64pp photos. AUTO-HARP BAND BIBLIOG BIOG DISCOG GUITAR HISTORY PERFORMING. USA VIRGINIA

SANDBERG & WEISSMAN, Larry & Dick. 1976. FOLK MUSIC SOURCEBOOK, THE. Guide to North American Folk Music. Denver Folklore Center/ Alfred A Knopf, New York.. 2877-USA-GEN. PB 300x225 260+15. BIBLIOG BLUES COLLECTING COMPOSITION DISCOG INSTRUMENTS MANUAL PERFORMING REFERENCE. USA CANADA

SAXON, DREYER & TALLANT Lyle, Edward & Robert. 1945. GUMBO YA-YA. - A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.. 4051- USA-GEN. HB 290x150 181pp photos. CAJUN CREOLE CUSTOMS DEATH DIALECT FOLKLORE GHOSTS HISTORIC IRISH NEGRO SLAVERY SOCIAL STORY. USA LOUISIANA

SHAPIRO & HENTOFF, Nat & Nat. 1955/62. HEAR ME TALKIN' TO YA. The Story of Jazz by the men who made it. Rinehart, NY/ Penguin Books, London.. 0820-USA-GEN. PB 180x112 414pp. JAZZ PERFORMING SPEECH. USA

SIMKIN, Colin. 1952. CURRIER & IVES' AMERICA: A Panorama of the mid 19th century scene. 80 prints in full colour with introduction & commentary. Bonanza Books, New York.. 1346-USA-GEN. HB DC 300x400 80 full page clr prints. ARCHITECTURE BRIDGES FARMING FISHING LIFE PICTURES TRANSPORT. USA

STURGES, D Richard. 1973. LINCOLN COUNTY PICTURES.. Lincoln County Publ.. 2453-USA-GEN. PB 305x235 54pp b/w photos. COASTAL ENVIRONMENT PHOTOS. USA MAINE LINCOLN-COUNTY

THOMPSON, Harold W. 1939/1962. BODY, BOOTS AND BRITCHES. Folktales, Ballads and Speech from Country New York. Constable, London/ Dover, New York.. 2807-USA-GEN. PB 215x135 530pp map. BALLAD CANALS INDIAN LOGGERS PROVERB PLACE-NAMES SAILORS SONG STORY WAR WHALING. USA NEW- YORK

TRIBE, Ivan M. 1984. MOUNTAINEER JAMBOREE. Country Music in West Viginia. Univ Kentucky. Purch Paul Smith 1987.2936-USA-GEN. HB DC 230x150 233pp photos. BANJO BIOG BLUEGRASS COUNTRY DISCOG FIDDLE RADIO RECORDS. USA WEST-VIRGINIA

TULLOS, Allen. 1977. LONG JOURNEY HOME: Folklife in the South.. Southern Exposure, Chapel Hill, N Carolina.. 2594-USA-GEN. PB 280x215 224pp. ARCHIVES BANDS BIBLIOG BLUES CAJUN CLOG FILM FISHING FOLKLORE NEGRO POETRY POTTERY RELIGION SACREDHARP STORY. USA

WILGUS, D K. 1959. ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP SINCE 1898.. Rutgers Univ Press, New Brunswick, N J.. 2290-USA-GEN. HB DC 210x140 466pp. BALLAD BIBLIOG COLLECTING DISCOG GLOSSARY NEGRO SONG SPIRITUAL STUDY. USA

 
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