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Bibliography
Gibbon, J. M., Canadian Folk Songs. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927.
Gordon, R. W., "The Folk-Songs of America": a series of 18 articles in the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times, beginning 2 January, 1927. Popular articles by a scholar; important.
Gordon, R. W., "Old Songs That Men Have Sung": a department in Adven­ture Magazine from 10 July, 1923, to November, 1927.
Very important; edited by one of the leading collectors.         ^
Gray, R. P., Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1924.
Greenjleaf, E. B., and Mansfield, G. Y., Ballads and Sea Songs of New­foundland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1933.
Hague, E., "Spanish-American Folk-Songs." In Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Vol. X, 1917.
Haixowell, E., Calhoun Plantation Songs} 2nd ed. Boston: C W. Thomp­son Co., 1907.
Handy, W. C, Blues. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1926.
Howard, J. T., Our American Music. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1931. Note especially Chapter XV on "Our Folk-Music," and also the Bib­liographies.
Hudson, A. P., Specimens of Mississippi Folk-Lore. Ann Arbor, Mich, (mimeographed), and University of Mississippi, 1928. Mimeographed for the editor and on sale in well-bound copies.
Important collection of the Mississippi Folklore Society.
Hulbert, A. B., Forty-niners. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1932.
Contains migration songs and tells of the circumstances under which they were sung.
Jackson, G. P., White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1933.
Pioneer work; important also for the history of the Negro spiritual.
Jackson, G. S., Early Songs of Uncle Sam. Introduction by K. B. Murdock. Boston: B. Humphries, 1933.
Johnson, Guy B., Folk Culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1930.
-Important; should be read in connection with Mr. Ballanta-Taylor's book listed above.
Johnson, Guy B., John Henry. Chapel Hill, N. C; University of North Carolina Press, 1929.
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