FOLKWAYS RECORDS

After World War I, orchestras were hot: they provided music for listening and especially for dancing. To meet the demand for popular novelty ragtime tunes, orchestra leaders arranged the complex...

Topoke People Congo / Var Topoke People Congo / Var CD1. Bwale Music 2. Lukembi Tune 3. Men's Work Song 4. Play Song 5. Girl's Dance 6. Girl's Dance Drums 7. Palm Fruit Cutter's Song 8. Hunting Calls...

In the Blues in St. Louis, Volume 3, electric guitarist Henry Townsend plays familiar blues songs, accompanied by Tommy Bankhead on electric bass. Samuel Charters, who recorded the session in 1961,...

This field recording by Mary L. Evans represents a wide variety of traditional Japanese dances with ranging subject matters such as draught, war, famine etc. The recording captures both the music and...

The abundant folk music of Japan may be classified under several major headings, religious songs, work songs, ballads, children's songs, and dancing songs sung at festivals. This album introduces the...

David Blair Stiffler's 1982 recordings, from the Guyana United Apostolitic Mystical Council and St. Matthews Apostolitic Mission, represent the African communities of Guyana. Integrating African...

In contrast to the melodies of the Mayan region, which field recordist Samuel Marti describes as "martial and solemn," the music of the Incas is "nostalgic and gay." Selections on Traditional Music...

A buffalo-horn trumpet, the hakum, announces the joyful harvest festival and varying types of drums called mandri, kotoloka and kundir take over. A group of women chant antiphonally in leadership of...

Producer, performer, and playwright, George M. Cohan wrote twenty-two musicals during his career, and penned World War I's most popular song, "Over There," as well as the enduring hit, "Give My...

For many years working a variety of jobs in British Columbia construction camps, railroad gangs, logging and tugboat crews-Stanley G. Triggs's resume would make any outdoorsman proud. Add folk singer...

The steel band was invented during World War II, and so this 1957 recording of the Trinidad Panharmonic Orchestra captures the early days of what is now a widely popular genre of music. According to...

The mestiza music began to develop even a relatively short time after Cort's conquest of the land of Huitzilopochtli. Today, more than four centuries later, the Spanish roots can clearly be...