Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance ...

Despite the growing interest in emerging markets, investors are often missing key opportunities because they either have incorrect information about a country across the globe or don't know what questions to be asking about a particular region. For example, Thailand has had 17 different governments over the past 63 years but in fact, the author believes the country is thriving financially and should be seen as an investment opportunity. The book will provide insights into some 20 countries...

Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying proven book club methods to the field of phonograph records, these two related companies attracted some hundred thousand subscribers at their peak and serviced perhaps a million members in their existence. Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977 tells the history of YPR/CRG, explaining...

Building on the uncannily accurate predictions in previous editions, this latest edition of The Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed, written by New York Times bestselling authors Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner, explores the economic, political, and financial events between 2008-09 and 2023, placing them in historical context and explaining what's likely to happen for the remaining years of the 2020s.The book imparts practical advice on how to protect weal...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. Chapman and William I. Lutterschmidt make the case that the effort to preserve animal...

BERDYAEV AS A PHILOSOPHER How shall a non-Russian, above all a North American, assimilate the extraordinary assemblage of ideas which is Berdyaev's philosophy? Dr. Richardson does not exaggerate the difficulties. And he introduces us with great care (and what a formidable task it must have been) precisely to what is most strange in this writer, his fusion of historical .. eschatological-metaphysical-mystical-Christian conceptions. By some standards Berdyaev is a theologian rather than a ph...

On the frozen world of Ymir, memory itself is alive. Ice remembers every footprint, every voice, every act of grief. When researchers arrive to study its strange crystalline patterns, they awaken something that does not merely observe-but integrates.A scientific crew descends to the planet, uncovering frost that responds like language and insects that move in impossible synchronicity. What begins as exploration becomes a slow entanglement as the station itself echoes their thoughts...

What do we leave behind when memory fades? What waits in the places we forget to look?Signals from the Edge is a haunting, thought-provoking anthology of twenty-five speculative tales where the extraordinary hides just beneath the surface. Blending quiet horror, near-future science fiction, psychological suspense, and mythic echoes, this collection explores the lives of people who stand at the margins-of time, of society, of themselves.A girl questions her faith in a school...

With echoes of Gone Girl and My Lovely Wife, Sarah Bonner's debut novelintroduces an exciting new voice in twisty thrillers.HER PERFECT TWIN. YOUR NEW OBSESSION.When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband’s phone, she wants answers.Leah already has everything Megan ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder.T...

"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock ...

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

A man, a microphone, and a dreamWhen he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created Folkways Records to achieve his goal, not just a record label but a statement that all sounds are equal and every voice deserves to be heard. The Folkways catalog grew to include a myriad of voices, from world- and roots-music to political speeches; the voices of contemporary poets and st...