Folk music in America
By: by Phillips Barry ; introductory essay by George Herzog.
Contributors: Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). Folk-Song and Folklore Dept.
Series: American folk-song publications ;; 4; National Service Bureau publication ;; 80-S; National Service Bureau publication ;; no. 80-S.
Publisher: Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau
Published: 1939
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.; Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Notes: "A Bibliography of the works of Phillips Barry": leaves xv-xix.
"Issued by Folk-Song and Folklore Dept."--T.p.
"June 1939"--T.p.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Folk-music in America; title: Native balladry in America; title: The origin of folk melodies; title: A garland of ballads; title: Some aspects of folk-song; title: William Carter, the Bensontown Homer; title: The transmission of folk-song; title: The collection of folk-song; title: The music of the ballads; title: What is tradition?; title: Communal re-creation; title: Das Volk dichtet nichts; title: Illiteracy a negative factor in ballad tradition; title: Notes on the ways of folk-singers with folk-tunes; title: American folk music.