Download or read book Introducing American Folk Music written by Kip Lornell and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing American Folk Music examines folk and closely related grassroots music, such as gospel, western swing, and folk-rock. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States.