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Featured Books

Battle Hymns : The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter
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ISBN: 9780807835500
Publication Date: 2012-03-19
Folk-Songs of the South : Collected under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society by John Harrington Cox (Editor); Alan Jabbour (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9781938228681
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Folk Music in the United States : An Introduction by Bruno Nettl; Helen Myers
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ISBN: 9780814315576
Publication Date: 1976-02-01
Vaughan Williams on Music by David Manning; Ralph Vaughan Williams
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ISBN: 9780195182392
Publication Date: 2007-11-27

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