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Example of American interest in collecting traditional ballads and songs.
Example of American interest in collecting traditional ballads and songs.

 

Scarborough, Dorothy. A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1937

Index

Case 1 - Beginnings

Case 2 - England & Scotland

Case 3 - 19th Century Irish

Case 4 - American Songsters

Case 5 - Irish-American

Case 6 - Irish Traditional

Case 7 - Literary & Political

Case 8 - Child & Sharp

Case 9 - African-American

Case 10 - Instruments

Case 11 - Captain O'Neill

Case 12 - The Spoken Word