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Society's Child
by Janis Ian  Publisher Comments Grammy Awardawinning singer and songwriter Janis Ianas memoir of her more than forty years in the music business. Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of fifteen when her soul-wrenching song aSocietyas Childa became a national...
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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger
by David King Dunaway Publisher Comments How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete...
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Mayor of Macdougal Street (05 Edition)
by Dave Van Ronk Publisher Comments Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the...
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Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life)
by Bess Lomax Hawes Publisher Comments The personal account of a giant in American folklore and folk...
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Steve Goodman: Facing the Music
by Clay Eals Publisher Comments Steve Goodman wrote Good mornin' America, how are ya into the nation's consciousness, becoming one of the most respected singer/songwriters of the 1970s and early 80s. With warmth and wit, he charmed better-known peers, top critics, and countless fans...
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The Mayor of Macdougal Street
by Dave Van Ronk Publisher Comments Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the...
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Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
by Ed Cray Publisher Comments Cray is the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody Guthrie Archive, and he has interviewed over 70 of the people who knew Woody best. On this basis he creates a haunting portrait of an American original who profoundly influenced Pete Seeger...
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Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
by Richard D Smith Publisher Comments The definitive biography of Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, is also an exploration of his enormous influence on American popular music. Two 8-page photo inserts. NPR sponsorship....
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Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
by Ed Cray 
Publisher Comments To recall the Depression era is to hear Woody's songs: he was the greatest folk musician of the twentieth century. BORN IN OKLAHOMA, Woody Guthrie became a figure larger than life, a folk singer who captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs:...
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DOO-DAH: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture
by Ken Emerson Publisher Comments Stephen Foster (1826–1864) was America's first great songwriter and the first to earn his living solely through his music. He composed some 200 songs, including such classics as "Oh! Susanna,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Old...
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens (Music in American Life)
by Hazel Dickens Publisher Comments Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of...
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How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
by David Dunaway Publisher Comments Who is this skinny, 78-year-old man with the five-string banjo, whose performances over five decades have touched millions of people? Entertainer? Composer? Communist? Bob Dylan once called him a "saint." Joan Baez has said, "We all owe our careers to...
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Sing My Whole Life Long: Jenny Vincent's Life in Folk Music and Activism (Counterculture)
by Craig Smith Synopsis Born in Minnesota and raised in Chicago, Jenny Vincent was educated at a progressive private school and Vassar College. Introduced to international folk music at an early age, she remains a performer and champion of this music of the people. In 1936...
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Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
by Tiny (edt) Robinson Publisher Comments The influential Louisiana bluesman, Lead Belly, wrote and performed some of the best-loved songs of the twentieth century, including The Midnight Special, Rock Island Line and his signature song, Goodnight, Irene, which became an international hit in...
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Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays
by Doris Willens Publisher Comments During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to America's consciousness. He could make people laugh in...
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Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: An East Tennessee Old-Time Music Pioneer and His Musical Family
by Bob L. Cox Synopsis This new book tells--for the first time---the story of Charlie Bowman, a musician from East Tennessee, who was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle style definitive of country music of the 1920s and 1930s. Charlie, along with three of his brothers...
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Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
by Woody Guthrie Publisher Comments Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over--not by jet or motorcycle, but by box-car, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national...
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Bob Dylan Album File and Complete Discography
by Brian Hinton Publisher Comments A complete discography of the most prolific and influential singer/songwriter in the history of music, containing complete listings of recordings, full background details and musical credits....
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Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Its Legacy in American Music
by Mark Zwonitzer Publisher Comments Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is the first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly established the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music -- a style celebrated in O...
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The Life of a Children's Troubadour: An Autobiography
by Raffi Publisher Comments Get to know the man whose music made him a friend to millions of children and their families -- Raffi, one of North America's most beloved and celebrated children's entertainers....
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