A study tracing the origins and implications of the categories 'folk music' and 'art music'.

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize m

"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it.

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. A

Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper s