First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains...

The bawdy exploits of 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' are normally relegated to late-night college par...

First found in Georgia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Bahamas in the 1920's a...

This long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's classic collection, Songs the Whalemen Sang, assemb...

Jolly Sailors Bold: Ballads and Songs of the American Sailor is a major anthology of folk songs a...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish ...

How do we know what we know about chanties? Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces...

The English ballad 'The Gest of Robyn Hood' is the single most important source for the Robin Hoo...

Which came first, the ballad or the romance? Many famous tales exist in both early folk ballads a...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish ...

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on f...