Some ballads of North Carolina
By: by John A. Lomax
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: English Ballads; History and criticism; Texts; Folk music; English Folk songs; African Americans; Music
Other titles: North Carolina booklet.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Consists of several ballads and songs primarily from North Carolina including traditional, war, African American folk, mountain, and coastal songs. Lomax's commentary accompanies several of the ballads and he also offers a brief introduction to the text.
Notes: Title from electronic caption on pg. [26] (viewed March 10, 2003)

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: Some ballads of North Carolina / by Professor John A. Lomax, Secretary University of Texas and Assistant Director of the Department of Extension. p. [26]-42. Originally published in: The North Carolina booklet, v. XI, no. 1, July, 1911. Caption title.

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John A. Lomax was a United States folklorist and musicologist. At the time this document was published, Lomax was a professor at the University of Texas. He later collected some 10,000 recordings of southern music for the Library of Congress, where he was curator of American Folksongs.