Title: Folk music in America /
Authors: Barry, Phillips, 1880-1937.; Federal Theatre Project (U.S.).
Publisher: Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau,
Year: 1939
Subjects: Folk music United States History and criticism; Folk songs, English United States History and criticism
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.