FOLKWAYS RECORDS

The Kashmir Valley, which separates the Himalayan and Pir Panjal mountain ranges, is a meeting point between northwestern India, eastern Pakistan, and Central Asia. The grandeur of this environment...

These offerings provide a view of Korean music ranging from the folk music of farmerss' songs and ballads to classical court music, featuring the genre of formal ah ahk. Influences from Korea's...

Liberia is a coastal country bordering Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivoire. Many tribes employ "talking" instruments such as the fang drum and the bass musical bow that tell stories when played...

In this 1959 collection, American folklorist Harold Courlander documents a tradition of Palestinian folk song that has previously been known only through oral ritual. The compilation features vocally...

This collection of Romanian folk music showcases two of the country's most popular musical forms. Considered as belonging to everybody, the doina is "..a song of love, a pantheistic poem, a fighting...

This album features music from 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, including selections from Central Asia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus. While regions have absorbed musical influences from...

This 1952 Folkways compilation includes songs from the six republics of the former Yugoslavia, now independent countries Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Released in 1956, this album focuses on three republics of the former Soviet Union, all now independent countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. Extending from Turkey all the way to Tibet...

Anthony Byan Shay describes Iranian folk music as the one of the oldest and most influential cultural traditions in the Middle East. He writes: "The far-reaching influence of Persian music is felt in...

Folk Songs and Music from Malta presents a cross-section of Malta's musical folklore: From children's rhymes to country music, from national dances to modern songs, and with a glimpse or two into the...

This 1958 recording by Edith Fulton Fowke is a collection of folksongs from the province of Ontario sung by a myriad of traditional singers. Until Fowke began collecting these in the 1950's, most had...

It's all about cultural roots: On this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight...