IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

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After the Second World War, my family moved from a displaced persons camp in Schleswig-Holstein to a refugee camp in Sussex. From there we were taken in by English families. My mother worked as a ...

Started on his quest some forty years ago by Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, JOHN A. LOMAX, of Dallas, Texas, has carried into the second generation, through the skillful assistance of ...

A woman who sang old English ballads and folk songs that were among the earliest preserved in western North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker. The N.C.

Another record of entrancing, spectral folk and English ballads. Save this story Save this story Marissa Nadler's 2004 album Ballads of Living and Dying was a burnished gem of entrancing, spectral ...