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George Malcolm Laws (January 4, 1919 – August 1, 1994) was a scholar of traditional British and American folk song. [1] [2]He was best known for his collection of traditional ballads "American Balladry from British Broadsides", published in 1957 by the American Folklore Society.
John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [ 1 ] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta , Joan Baez , Burl Ives , Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan , among ...
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Anglo-American traditional music, dating back to colonial times, includes a variety of broadside ballads, humorous stories and tall tales, and disaster songs regarding mining, shipwrecks (especially in New England) and murder. Folk heroes like Joe Magarac, John Henry and Jesse James are also part of many songs.
This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World. Hosted by California State University, Fresno, Folklore Archived 2008-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, 2007. Webb, W.P. "Miscellany of Texas Folk-LOre" Coffee in the Gourd, pp. 47–63, J. Frank Dobie (ed.). Austin: Texas Folklore Society (1923).
The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5,000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources. (For example, the Roud Folk Song Index shows 22 sources for "Hind Etin" (Roud 33, Child 41), while the Traditional Ballad Index list only one source.) [14]
The Ballad of Davy Crockett; The Ballad of Eskimo Nell; The Ballad of John and Yoko; Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Be Still (Kelly Clarkson song) Begin Again (Taylor Swift song) The Birthday Party (song) Bitter Green; Blackbird (Beatles song) Blind (SZA song) Blouse (song) The Bonny Bunch of Roses