TY - BOOK AU - Barry,Phillips ED - Federal Theatre Project TI - Folk music in America T2 - American folk-song publications AV - ML3551 .B25 U1 - 784.4/973 19 PY - 1939/// CY - New York PB - Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau KW - United States KW - Folk songs N1 - "Issued by Folk-Song and Folklore Dept."--T.p; A Bibliography of the works of Phillips Barry: leaves xv-xix; 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 ER -