FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Recorded in Honolulu, Hawaii, by ethnomusicologist Jacob Feuerring, Music of the Orient in Hawaii features songs from Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines that were often used to accompany dance...

This influential 1920s small jazz band played music ideal for dancing, while it's members' improvisational creativity offered listeners a new experience with every take. The Original Memphis Five is...

Ostrowsky,Chaim Jewish Classical Literature CD1. Children Are a Joy - Sholem Aleichem 2. Aleph Beiz - Sholom Stern 3. Chassidim - a. Lutzky 4. The Magician - J.L. Peretz 5. The American - Sholem Asch...

Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans on October 18th, 1939. Oswald spent his formative years moving from one place to another, living in 22 U.S...

Before curing a patient, a healer of the Ghanaian Ga people might require the music and dance of the akroma to be performed, which invokes the spirits of certain animals known to have powerful...

Most of the songs on this record are from the "out-ports" of the Avalon peninsula of Newfoundland, settled by Irish immigrants during the Great Famine. Folklorist MacEdward Leach describes this...

Dr. Ida Halpern (1910-1987), an Austrian-born Canadian musicologist, collected these tracks from several tribes along the British Columbia coast. Songs of the Kwakiutl are the most prevalent here,...

Parker,Max Al Tocar Diana: At The Break Of Dawn CD1. Asturias 2. 1982 3. Jarama Song 4. Narrative: Recently on TV 5. Narrative: Feb. 1937 6. Song of the American Consul 7. Narrative: The First...

Patchen,Kenneth Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems CD1. Beautiful You Are 2. Give You a Lantern 3. Little Birds Sit on Your Shoulder 4. As Beautiful As the Hands of the Winter Tree 5. While the Sun...

Patchen,Kenneth Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada CD1. Four Blues Poems: "There's a Place" / They Won't Let You in There / a Sigh Is a Little Altered/ the Lonesome Boy Blues 2. Four Song...

Patchen,Kenneth Selected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen CD1. And What with the Blunders 2. The Origin of Baseball 3. The Wolf of Winter 4. The Fox 5. Nice Day for a Lynching 6. 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven...

Poet/novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a figure in New York City's Greenwich Village literary scene, which Folkways Records' founder Moses Asch documented. A jazz lover, Patchen often read...