A Superb Resource | The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language

book: The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language | Alan Lomax

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	• The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language Alan Lomax Doubleday & Company, 1960 - 623 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Great book for folk music learning and playing

Folk Songs Of North America

I have owned this book since the 1970s and still use it regularly. I play numerous instruments and it is always fun to go to a song and be able to play along while singing the song.

This book is a must for anyone playing folk music or old-time bluegrass.

A Superb Resource

A great piece of work from Lomax, the Lomax collaborators, and publisher Doubleday. Large format, decorative cloth over hardback boards, with a heavy-duty binding. Many illustrations. 317 songs. 623 pages.

16 page introduction by Lomax. Chapter introductions by Lomax or his team. Multiverse lyrics and alternate lyrics. Color front pastedown map showing the locations of different Song Style Families. Color back pastedown map of the Names and Places of the Songs.

Every song appears to be annotated by Lomax, or by his team, with an introduction explaining the background of the song and quotes from Americans such as Faulkner, Woody Guthrie, or Reuben Delano.

The simpler songs are notated with melody and guitar chords. The more complex ones have a piano accompaniment.

There are over 25 pp of Appendices: Book List, Guitar and Banjo Guide, Discography, Index of Song Titles, Index of First Lines.

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317 songs with melodies and guitar chords transcribed by Peggy Seeger. One hundres piano arrangements by Matyas Seiber and Don Banks.