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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
FOLK MUSIC

Volume 2

TRADITIONAL ANGLO-AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC

TRADITIONAL ANGLO-AMERICAN
FOLK MUSIC

An Annotated Discography of Published
Sound Recordings

NORM COHEN

First published in 1994 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

This edition first published in 2016
by Routledge
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1994 Norm Cohen

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ISBN: 978-1-138-94398-8 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-315-66734-8 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-96233-0 (Volume 2) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-12270-3 (Volume 2) (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65939-8 (Volume 2) (ebk)

Publishers Note
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TRADITIONAL
ANGLO-AMERICAN
FOLK MUSIC

An Annotated Discography
of Published
Sound Recordings

Norm Cohen

Copyright 1994 Norm Cohen
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cohen, Norm.

Traditional Anglo-American folk music : an annotated discography of published sound recordings / Norm Cohen.

p. cm. (Garland library of music ethnology ; vol. 2)

(Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1469)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-8153-0377-7 (alk. paper)

1. Folk musicUnited StatesDiscography. 2. Folk songs, EnglishUnited StatesDiscography. I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: Garland library of music ethnology ; 2. ML156.4.F5C4 199

016.781621300266dc20

93-26934
CIP
MN

Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper
Manufactured in the United States of America

"In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed"

Samuel Johnson, Preface to his Dictionary (1755)

TO
Alexa,
Carson,
Matthew,
and
Verni

The Garland Library of Music Ethnology comprises mainly reference works in ethnomusicology, dance ethnology, music anthropology, and related fields. The series seeks to fill some gaps in reference and research: in specific music areas such as Native American, Arab, Southeast Asian, Latin American, European, and North American, and through works of a more general methodological kind. Further contributions to the series will be in dance ethnology, discography, and filmography. In addition, some important works in translation, as well as the occasional monograph, will form part of the series.

The term "music ethnology" was chosen for a practical reason: to differentiate the series from The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology (7 vols., 1990). There are less obvious reasons for using "music ethnology": "ethnomusicology," though it has flourished in scholarly circles since its invention by Jaap Kunst in 1950, is a cumbersome term for the lay person; a certain ambiguity is built into it through the "ethno" prefix, with its connotations of "other," "different," or "ethnic" (e.g., Western vs. non-Western); and the nominal amalgam appears to emphasize the musicology component over the ethnological (or anthropological) rather than the interaction of musicology and ethnology on equal terms. While no single term is entirely satisfactory, "music ethnology" (like "dance ethnology") at least has the virtue of clarity as well as suggesting a more equable balance between the disciplines.

The second volume in this series represents the filling of a gap of a different sort from the first volume, Ann Briegleb Schuursmas Ethnomusicology Research: A Select Annotated Bibliography (1992), which was a more general bibliography of published writings in ethnomusicology since 1960. The gap that the present work aims to fill is of sound recordings of traditional Anglo-American folk music. The author, Norm Cohen, has a distinguished career outside the folk music field (in chemical kinetics), and is currently Senior Scientist at Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. But his association with, and love for American vernacular song and music is reflected in his book Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (1981), in his contributions to the John Edwards Memorial Foundation as Executive Secretary (1969-85) and as Editor of its journal, the John Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly (1966-88), and in his Record Review Editorship for major academic publications such as the Journal of American Folklore (1968-69,1986-90) and Western Folklore (1970-75)

Dr. Cohen has also contributed numerous articles on folk music and song to scholarly journals from the mid-1960s to the present, and his other many publications include phonograph album liner and brochure notes e.g., for the Smithsonian Institution Presss recent Folksong America: The Folk Revival, a 6-LP/4-CD box set (1991). His discography also covers a somewhat larger time frame than the first volume, namely from the 1920s to the present. The selection of 500 albums includes, moreover, all types of older traditional material, both vocal and instrumental. The listings have also been limited to performers native to the tradition rather than "revival" performers, who probably merit a separate discography. Finally, the album selection is grouped into field recordings and commercial hillbilly (pre-1942) recordings, with subdivisions into individual recordings or anthologies.

The usefulness of this discography will be readily apparent. Within the broad grouping noted above, the main listings are subdivided by label name or number, title, artists, editor (collector, recordist, producer), date and place of recording, date of publication, annotations, selections, and Dr. Cohens own commentary. A title index grapples with, and largely solves, such practical problems as that of different titles for the same song or the same title for different songs. Particularly useful is the listing of recommended albums for individuals or institutions that want to assemble core collections of significant recordings. The discography reflects not only its authors deep knowledge of Anglo-American folk musics historical development but charts a valuable step forward in the evaluation, as well as the select listing, of available sound recordings.

James Porter,
Editor The Garland Library of Music Ethnology

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