“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

Origins -- Drums -- Flutes and recorders -- Reeds -- "Brass" instruments: trumpets and horns -- String instruments -- Pipe organs -- Electrophones https://siris ...

Covers the development of American folk music from African music, English ballads and other sources, the origins of folk instruments and folk influences on gospel, blues, bluegrass, jazz, country ...