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Folk music in America / by Phillips Barry ; introductory essay by George Herzog.
LIBRA ML3550 .B38
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Barry, Phillips, 1880-1937.
- Series:
- National Service Bureau publication ; no. 80-S.
- American folk-song publications ; 4.
- National Service Bureau publication ; 80-S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- United States.
- Folk songs, English--United States--History and criticism.
- Folk songs, English.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 113 leaves. : music. ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau, [1939]
- Contents:
- Folk-music in America
- Native balladry in America
- The origin of folk melodies
- A garland of ballads
- Some aspects of folk-song
- William Carter, the Bensontown Homer
- The transmission of folk-song
- The collection of folk-song
- The music of the ballads
- What is tradition?
- Communal re-creation
- Das Volk dichtet nichts
- Illiteracy a negative factor in ballad tradition
- Notes on the ways of folk-singers with folk-tunes
- American folk music.
- Notes:
- "Issued by Folk-Song and Folklore Dept."--T.p.
- At head of title: Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau.
- "June 1939"--T.p.
- Includes indexes.
- "A Bibliography of the works of Phillips Barry": leaves xv-xix.
- Bibliography: l. xv-xix.
- OCLC:
- 7736758
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