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| Exploring American Folk Music | |
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| A Preamble to the Third Edition | |
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| A Prelude to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Start Here! | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Roots of Twenty-first-Century Folk Music | |
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| Music in Our Daily Lives and in the Academy | |
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| Denning American Folk Music | |
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| Cultural Geography and Traditions | |
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| Folk Culture in the United States | |
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| Bred in the Bone | |
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| Listening to American Folk Music | |
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| Instruments | |
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| Accordion | |
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| Banjo | |
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| Dulcimer | |
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| Fiddle | |
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| Fife | |
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| Guitar | |
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| Harmonica | |
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| Mandolin | |
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| Mouth Bow | |
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| One-String | |
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| Quills | |
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| Washboard | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Mass Media | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Minstrel and Medicine Shows | |
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| Recording the Blues | |
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| Record Companies and Folk Music | |
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| Country Music over the Airwaves | |
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| Border Radio | |
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| The Ancestors of MTV and VH-1 | |
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| Uncle Dave Macon and the Electronic Media | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| FieldWork in Twenty-First-Century America | |
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| Musical Communities and Fieldwork | |
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| Accomplishing Fieldwork | |
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| Topic | |
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| Focus | |
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| Preparation | |
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| Questions | |
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| Communication | |
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| Interview | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Some Nuts and Bolts of Fieldwork | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Anglo-American Secular Folk Music | |
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| British Ballads | |
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| Broadsides | |
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| Native American Ballads | |
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| Singing Cowboys | |
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| Tin Pan Alley and Country Music Texts | |
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| Ernest Stoneman's Repertoire | |
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| The Father of Bluegrass | |
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| Honky-Tonk | |
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| Western Swing | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Anglo-American Sacred Music | |
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| Psalmody | |
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| Shape Notes | |
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| Camp Meetings | |
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| Shakers | |
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| Later Hymnody and Gospel Songs | |
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| Sanctified Styles | |
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| Southern Gospel Boogie | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| African American Religious Folk Music | |
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| The Great Awakening and Camp Meetings | |
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| Spirituals | |
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| Ring Shouts | |
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| Gospel | |
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| Pentecostal Singing and Guitar Evangelists | |
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| Preachers on Record | |
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| Gospel Quartets | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| African American Secular Folk Music | |
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| Work Songs | |
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| String Bands | |
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| Fife and Drum Bands | |
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| Ragtime and Coon Songs | |
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| Ballads | |
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| Songsters and Rural Music | |
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| Down-home Blues | |
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| Modern Blues | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Ethnic And Native American Traditions | |
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| Jewish American: Klezmer | |
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| Native American | |
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| Music and Ceremony Today | |
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| Musical Characteristics | |
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| Instruments | |
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| Powwows | |
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| Hawaiian American | |
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| Franco-American | |
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| Cajun Country | |
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| Zydeco | |
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| Northeastern States | |
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| Scandinavian American | |
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| Ballads | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| Polka and More Polka! | |
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| Norwegian American Folk Music | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| The Hispanic American Diaspora | |
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| The Southwest | |
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| Tex-Mex Music | |
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| Corridas | |
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| Mariachi | |
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| Native American Influences | |
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| Florida | |
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| New York City | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| The Folk Revivals | |
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| Red Roots | |
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| The Mass Media and Popular Culture | |
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| Field Research | |
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| The 1960s Folk Revival | |
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| A British Invasion | |
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| The Blues Boom | |
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| Back to the Mountains | |
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| New Entrepreneurs and Frontiers | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| The Folk Roots of Contemporary Popular Music | |
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| Black Codes from the Underground | |
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| Improvisation in Black Musical Culture | |
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| Rhythm and Blues | |
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| Rockabilly | |
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| Early Rock 'n� Roll and Rock | |
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| Motown and Soul | |
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| Hip-Hop and Rap | |
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| Country Music Today | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Urbm Folk Music | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Blues and Gospel in Chicago | |
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| San Antonio's Country and Conjunto Traditions | |
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| Washington, D.C. | |
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| Country Music | |
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| Bluegrass | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Selected Song Index | |
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| General Index | |