The Anglo-American ballad : a folklore casebook /
edited by Dianne Dugaw.
- New York : Garland Publishing, 1995.
- xxi, 337 p. : music ; 23 cm.
- Garland folklore casebooks, vol. 8 .
Popular songs and the image of a nation: The Spectator Papers on ballads (Numbers 70 and 85) (1711) / Joseph Addison -- Heroic bards and the "romantic wildness" of an Anglo-Saxon past: On ancient minstrels (1794) / Thomas Percy -- Countering mythic claims: The origin and progress of national song (1783) / Joseph Ritson -- Balladry as a childhood for national genius: Popular poetry (1830) / Walter Scott -- The concept of orality and the collector of "tradition": Minstrelsy ancient and modern (1827) / William Motherwell -- The ballad community as an egalitarian, pastoral ideal: Ballad poetry (1875) / Francis James Child -- Orality, primitivism, and an Improvising folk community: The ballad and communal poetry (1897) / Francis B. Gummere -- Real singers, individual authorship, and diverse ballads: Ballads and the illiterate (1921) / Louise Pound -- Archaism and "communal re-creation" in ballad tunes: The music of the ballads (1929) / Phillips Barry -- Families of tunes and the tenacity of tradition: Ballad tunes and text (1944) / Bertrand H. Bronson -- Ballad music as an heirloom of British culture: Principal melodic families of British-American folk song (1950) / Samuel P. Bayard -- Variation and continuity in ballads present and past: The comparative approach / D.K. Wilgus -- Class politics and the producers and production of songs: Song and social context (1986) / Michael Pickering -- Orality and the formulaic composition of ballads: Oral tradition and literary tradition (1977) / David Buchan -- Creativity, community, and the individual songmaker: My name is Larry Gorman (1964) / Edward Ives -- People and their songs as diverse phenomena: Ballad singers, ballad makers, and ballad etiology (1973) / Eleanor R. Long -- Tradition, literacy, and the ballad marketplace: The interface of oral and written forms (1984) / Dianne Dugaw -- Performance, audience, social conditions, and tradition: The rise of the English street ballad (1990) / Natascha Würzbach -- Blues ballads and the syncretism of Anglo and African traditions: Survivors of the ballad tradition (1984) / Paul Oliver.