Introducing American Folk Music Ethnic and Grassroot Traditions in the United States

Introducing American Folk Music examines folk and closely related grassroots music, such as gospel, western swing, and folk-rock.The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of these musics in the United States. Each new copy of the text comes packaged with a free audio CD containing recordings to accompany all the listening guides.Lornell, Christopher is the author of 'Introducing American Folk Music Ethnic and Grassroot Traditions in the United States', published 2001 under ISBN 9780072536195 and ISBN 0072536195.