Norman Cohen

NORM COHEN is the author of Folk Music: A Regional Exploration (2005), Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2nd edn., 2001), Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Recordings (1994), and other volumes. He has edited and/or annotated more than three dozen albums of folk and country music, has written numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews on various aspects of folk, country, and popular music has been recordings review editor for...See more

NORM COHEN is the author of Folk Music: A Regional Exploration (2005), Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (2nd edn., 2001), Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Recordings (1994), and other volumes. He has edited and/or annotated more than three dozen albums of folk and country music, has written numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews on various aspects of folk, country, and popular music has been recordings review editor for Journal of American Folklore (1968-69, 1986-90) and Western Folklore (1970-75) and was editor of the JEMF Quarterly (1966-88). In 1996 he received the Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music, administered by the Music Library Association, for the study of 19th century American pocket songsters. He is a retired physical chemist, and currently teaches chemistry at Portland Community College. See less