Folk Music: A Regional Exploration Available to Purchase

This work attempts to explore the different ways that folk music has evolved naturally in different regions and scenes throughout the USA, a difficult task since folk music has never achieved the national success that has come to jazz, blues, country and western and other forms of American indigenous music. Cohen's preface suggests that the form has been of more interest to social historians, educators, literature students, even anthropologists, rather than general musicians and the listening public and, to this end, his book concentrates on the textual rather than the musical aspects of folk song.

Chapter 1 starts the work...