FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Recorded in 1974 in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, Polynesian Dances of Bellona (Mungiki) chronicles a renaissance of ceremonial songs and dances that were banned by Christian...

Recorded in 1976, Polynesian Songs and Games features songs from Bellona, a small island south of the Solomon Island chain. The music of Bellona favors vocal arrangements accompanied by the sparse...

The members of this musical family learned from their parents and from singers on the radio, including the Carter Family and Gid Tanner, but created and retained an individual style that...

Jericho-Jim Crow by Langston Hughes is a musical production that focuses on themes from the civil rights movement and features music significant to the same period. Performers include former cast...

Primitive Archaic Poetry / Var Primitive Archaic Poetry / Var CD1. Origins and Meanings: Uitoto Indian Myth/Book of Enoch/A Maori Poem on the Creation of Light/Chhandoga Upanishad 2. Origins and...

RELATED LESSON PLAN "Music of 'The Seventh Continent'"1. Part 2 2. Part 3 3. Part 4 4. Part 5 5. Part 6

A native of Beech Mountain in the northwest corner of North Carolina, singer and banjo player Frank Proffitt's tremendous repertoire inspired musicians interested in old time music. This collection...

Psalms Sung Cameroons / Var Psalms Sung Cameroons / Var CD1. Psalm 117 2. Psalm 8 3. Psalm 104 4. Psalm 47 5. Psalm 23 6. Psalms 98,99,100 7. Psalm 130 8. Psalm 4 9. Psalm 106 10. Psalm 84 11. Psalm...

Charles Ives has grown into one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn't always like this: Ives was frustrated by indifferent audiences and...

Partially reissued with expanded track list and annotation in 1992 as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 40401.1. Birds ; Crickets, Bark Cloth Hammering 2. Elephant Hunting Song 3. Spear Song 4...

Qamar,Nadi Likembi Song Book CD1. A Likembi Classical 2. Pastorale 3. Finger Dance #1 4. Finger Dance #2 5. Finger Poppin' Piece #1 6. Miraculous Climbers, the 7. California Suite #3 (Sic):...

From performances at WWII military hospitals to the musical stages of New York, Raasche has brought a "passion and sincerity to her interpretations of Hebrew and Yiddish folk melodies" that has...