FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Even in the 21st century, the evolution of the word Junkanoo remains uncertain. One popularized theory suggests that the word is derived from an African prince, John Canoe, who gained control of an...

Jupiter Book Of Ballads / Var Jupiter Book Of Ballads / Var CD1. The Wife of Usher's Well 2. Lord Randall 3. St. Stephen and King Herod 4. Alison Gross 5. The Dowie Dens of Yarrow 6. Mary Hamilton 7...

Kajar The Magician Sufi Ceremony: Rifa Ceremony Of The Eleventh Day CD1. The Ceremony, Part 1 2. The Ceremony to the End

Rather than performing for an audience, the !Kung San people from the northwestern Kalahari Desert region "play [music] for themselves, when the mood strikes them." Perhaps that's what makes it so...

This record is an unabashed reconstruction of a piece of American life that disappeared between [the World Wars], says Israel Kaplan in his "autobiography." He remembers-pulling no punches-the...

Victor L. Kaplan reads a selection from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Although Middle English is hardly understandable to the modern ear, Chaucer was in his time considered a champion...

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Muslim conquests throughout India divided Indian classical music into two systems that persist today, north (Hindustani) and south (Carnatic). in South India the...

Buell Kazee (1900-1976) grew up playing the five-string banjo in the traditional flailing style ("thrashing" style, as he called it). As a teenager, he began to study religion and ended up spending...

Recorded live at the 1968 Union Grove Fiddlers' Contest, this album captures the energy and passion of dedicated, skilled musicians playing for their own enjoyment. Rather than worrying about...

After releasing nearly one hundred sides in the 1920s, Clark Kessinger-like many other musicians of the time-lost his recording career during the Depression. This album is his first since 1930,...

At the time his music was recorded in 1952, highly-respected trumpet player Kid Clayton was somewhat elusive, playing with pick-up marching bands but with no steady ensemble. After some effort,...

These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk'nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk'nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of...