FOLKWAYS RECORDS

A native of Britain, Karen James grew up in England, France, and Spain, and moved to Canada as a teenager. Accompanying herself on guitar and singing in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese,...

This album features campaign songs and slogans from U.S. presidential campaigns between 1876 and 1976. High school teacher and folk singer Peter Janovsky performs all the songs on this collection,...

Japanese Buddhist Ritual / Var Japanese Buddhist Ritual / Var CD1. Large Temple Bell 2. Morning Prayers (Hokke Kyo) 3. Gongs and Drum 4. Wasan Goeka Hymn 5. Wasan Goeka Hymn 6. Hymn of MT. Hiei 7...

In 1962 musician and ethnomusicologist Jacob Feuerring organized a two-part concert with a dual goal: To raise awareness among the people of Hawaii of the Japanese culture in their midst, and to...

In 1962 musician and ethnomusicologist Jacob Feuerring organized a two-part concert with a dual goal: To raise awareness among the people of Hawaii of the Japanese culture in their midst, and to...

Recorded in St. Louis during the 13th Annual National Ragtime Festival in June 1977, David A. Jasen demonstrates why the New York Times called him a "walking (and sitting) encyclopedia of ragtime...

There is no single kind of music that led to the creation of Jazz. Instead, the genre evolved, and continues to evolve, from diverse musical avenues. Following the popularity of swing music in the...

There is no single kind of music that led to the creation of Jazz. Instead, the genre evolved, and continues to evolve, from diverse musical avenues. In his liner notes to the final volume of...

This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and "standards. " Featured are Jelly Roll...

Here is a sampling of some of the most active Jazz vocalists of the 1920's, '30's and '40's: Louis Armstrong, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Sonny Terry and Ma Rainey. They...

This compilation chronicles the arrival of New Orleans Jazz in Chicago during the early 1920s and demonstrates how that body of music was integrated into the Chicago music scene. The album features...

Most of the recordings on this collection were made by white Chicago high school students in the Roaring Twenties "who took Jazz for their text and, in the spirit of Jazz, improvised upon that text."...