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Bibliography
Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets.
Valuable material collected and mimeographed by the Federal Theatre Project, at Lincoln, Nebraska. See especially Nos. 1,3, 11, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24. Neely, Charles, "Four British Ballads in Southern Illinois," in JAFL, 52:75—81
(1939)-
Neeser, R. W., American Naval Songs and'Ballads, New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1938.
Valuable for texts; no tunes. NiLES, J. J., Ballads, Carols, and Tragic Legends from the Southern Affalachian
Mountains. Schirmer's American Folk-Song Series, Set 20. New York: G.
Schirmer, 1938. Niles, J. J., More Songs of the Hill-Folk. Set 17. New York: G. Schirmer, 1936. NiLES, J. J., Seven Kentucky Mountain Songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1929. Niles, J. J., Songs of the Hill-Folk. Set 14. New York: G. Schirmer, 1934. Owens, B. A., "Songs of the Cumberlands," in JAFL, 49:215-242 (1936).
From Pike County, Kentucky. Pike, R. E., "Folk Songs from Pittsburg, New Hampshire," in JAFLy 48:337-351
(*935)-Pound, Louise, Folk-Song of Nebraska and the Central West: A Syllabus (Nebraska
Academy of Science Publications, Vol. IX, No. 3). Lincoln, 1915. Pound, Louise, "Some Texts of Western Songs," in SFQ, 3:25-32 (1939). ' Powell, John, "In the Lowlands Low," in SFQ, 1:1-12 (1937).
Story of an exciting discovery of folk-music. Randolph, V., and Clemens, N., "Ozark Mountain Party Games," in JAFL,
49:199-206 (1936). Refort of the Committee on Folksong of the Pofular Literature Section of the Mod­em Language Association of America (published as Vol. I, No. 2, of the SFQ,
1937).
Valuable articles by Barry, Davis, Herzog, J. A. Lomax, and Reed Smith, with
a list of collectors and other persons interested in the ballad and folk song in the
United States and Canada. Scarborough, Dorothy, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1937. Siegmeister, Elie. See Downes, Olin. Smith, Reed, "A Glance at the Ballad and Folksong Field," in SFQ, Vol. I, No. 2,
7-18 (1937)-
Includes a list of the Child ballads found in the U. S. and Canada. Smith, Reed, "The Traditional Ballad in America, 1933," in JAFL} 47:64-75
(1934). Smith, Reed, and Rufty, H., American Anthology of Old-World Ballads. New York: J. Fischer & Bro., 1937.
With accompaniments and admirable notes j perhaps the best collection available for professional singers.
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