Folksong / Folk music

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Cajun Country

Carolina Piedmont Country

Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music

The Glenbuchat Ballads

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

Kentucky Bluegrass Country

Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music

Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History

The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895

Ozark Country

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture

Shenandoah Valley Folklife

Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

Somebody Always Singing You

South Florida Folklife

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests

Strike Songs of the Depression

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Upper Cumberland Country

Wiregrass Country

Zydeco!

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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