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  • Jazz Violins of Forties / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This collection features the work of three masters of the jazz violin, including previously unreleased recordings by the Stuff Smith Trio, compositions by Hollywood stalwart fiddler Paul Nero, and... more
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  • Irish Rebellion Album / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Celtic, Irish
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Throughout the 700-year occupation of Ireland by the British, the Irish attempted many times to gain their freedom. Released in 1975, this album chronicles those struggles, including the Easter... more
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  • Country Blues / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Originally released in 1959, The Country Blues features a range of styles and a collection of recordings not included in other Folkways compilations. This selection-mostly recorded between 1927 and... more
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  • Ragtime Novelties 20's / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This balanced collection of novelty rags includes compositions by the famed Zez Confrey and Roy Bargy, as well as expert interpretations of rarely heard pieces by Harry Jentes, Sid Reinherz, Jean... more
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  • Atlanta Blues / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Isolated by it's surrounding hills, Atlanta developed a blues style described as "the summation of country Georgia music." the city's strummed and simple style retained it's local flavor until the... more
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  • Freedom Songs: Selma / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: Folk
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This documentary recording chronicles civil rights protesters singing during a march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol in Montgomery, to demand fair access to voting registration. The songs... more
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  • Ukrainian Christmas Songs / Various , Various Artists

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  • Broadside Ballads 1 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Country, Folk
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • First released in 1963, and later reissued by Smithsonian Folkways to commemorate the folk publication Broadside Magazine, Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 features artists such as Blind Boy Grunt (Bob... more
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  • Newport Folk Festival 2 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Country, Folk
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This volume is half of a two-recording set that includes recordings not issued on the Vanguard or Elektra Newport compilations. Intended to represent music from the American South and then-current... more
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  • Out-Ports Newfoundland / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: International
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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... more
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  • Music of Vietnam / Various , Various Artists

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  • Music of Thailand / Various , Various Artists

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  • Steam Locomotives 1 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Sound Effects
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • In 1957 Vinton Wight recorded and collected the sounds various different Steam Locomotives. He explains that "Stack Music" is "that delightful sound caused by super heated steam, exhausted from the... more
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  • English Concertina / Various , Richard Carlin

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  • Islamic Liturgy: Koran / Various , Islamic Liturgy

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  • Ragtime 1: City Banjos Brass / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Jazz
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • As it did with blues and jazz, the early recording industry missed the beginnings of ragtime. Luckily, the burgeoning player piano industry produced ragtime tunes on paper rolls, and these rolls... more
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  • Classical Music of Iran 1 / Various , Various Artists

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    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • The repertoire of melody patterns in traditional Persian art music is organized into systems or modes. The seven main systems are called dastagh, and the five secondary systems are avaz. Classical... more
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  • Rural Blues / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this... more
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  • Real Calypso: 1927-1946 / Various , Various Artists

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  • Songs of the Civil War / Various , Pete Seeger

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      Pete Seeger
    • Genre: Country, Folk
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • The Civil War played an instrumental role in the development of an American national identity. Specifically for American folk music, the war inspired songwriting on both sides of the conflict, as... more
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  • Contemporary Russian / Various , Various Artists

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  • Teahouse of Afghanistan / Various , Various Artists

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      Various Artists
    • Genre: International
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • Afghanistan's teahouses are a bustling center not only for socializing and business, but also for performing and entertaining. Teahouses serve as the main stage for most of Afghanistan's musicians.... more
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  • Folk Music New Mexico / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: Country, Folk
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • The tracks on this album have been selected from the several hundred recordings that comprise the J.D. Robb collection of southwestern popular and folk music. Most of these were recollected in New... more
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  • Folk Music of Palestine / Various , Various Artists

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    • Genre: International
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • In this 1959 collection, American folklorist Harold Courlander documents a tradition of Palestinian folk song that has previously been known only through oral ritual. The compilation features vocally... more
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  • Sounds of New Music / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Electronic
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Sounds of New Music is a collection of 18 compositions from the 1920s to the mid-1950s representing attempts at a new means of musical expression. Some use familiar instruments in new ways, while... more
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