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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword/Preface
1. Introduction
What is folk music?
Folk music, culture, and migration
Folk music in its community: its origins, functions, and meanings
Folk music and the collectors: how did they recognize it?
Folk music and commercial media
Folk music: the folk music revival
Summary
Suggested Additional Readings
2. Ballads and Songs
Narrative Songs
Minstrel ballads
Popular ("Child") ballads
Broadside Ballads
Indigenous popular ballads
Blues ballads
Sentimental ballads
Non-narrative Songs
Work Songs
Children's songs, game/play party songs, lullabies
Fiddle and banjo songs
Play Party songs
Religious songs
Hollers
Blues songs
Lyric folksongs
Bawdy and erotic songs
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
3. Instruments and Music
Instruments
Fiddle
Banjo
Guitar
Mandolin
Appalachian dulcimer
Hammered dulcimer
Fifes and whistles
Harmonica
Autoharp
Accordion
Jug, washboard, kazoo, other home made instruments
Ensemble traditions
Musical Aspects
Performance characteristics
Modes and scales
Singing style
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
4. Folk Music of the Northeast
New England and the North Atlantic
Pennsylvania Dutch
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
5. Folk Music of the Southeast
Upland South, including Southern Appalachians and Ozarks
Deep South
Sea Islands
African-American
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
6. Folk Music of the Midwest and Great Lakes
Midland and Great Lakes Region
Midwest
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
7. Folk Music of the Far West
Northwest
Southwest and Far West
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
8. Folk Songs of Occupations and Cultures
Occupations
Cowboys
Seafarers and rivermen
Loggers
Miners
Textile Millhands
Railroaders
Soldiers
Cultures
Franco-American: French-Canadian, Cajun, creole
Sea Islands
African-American
Indigenous peoples
Hispanics
Other immigrant groups
Urban songs: Labor songs and children's songs
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
9. Commercial Folk-derived Musical Traditions
Blackface minstrelsy
Cheap Print of the 19th century
Tin Pan Alley and Vaudeville
Jazz and ragtime
Hillbilly music, country music, bluegrass
Blues
Summary
Suggested Further Reading/Listening
10. The Urban Folk Revival
11. Representative Biographical Sketches
Appendix: Plot Synopses of Ballads Most Commonly Found in the United States and Canada
Indexes
Names
Subjects
Songs
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.