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A Small Bag Of Ballads From The Hills

A Small Bag Of Ballads From The Hills (With comments about origin and background plus musical notations by student musicologist, Richard Shelby) necessary about ballad-pushers and folklore collectors. If we seem here to of The Garden", we said all we felt In our essay-editorial, "The Keepers sang the "Ballad of Charles J. Guiteau". Vada Smith Osborne was born in 1897. range) and for our anticipated readers these ballads have relevance. They prove that old "traditional" ballads still have sparse existence in true oral transmission and that the hill folk hedge on our earlier pronouncements, so be it. But, not so. For our purposes (long- historical and cultural artifacts. Later composed ballads of their own. Although they may provide the superficial interest of novelty, they also have relevance as we expect to use more of them in more comprehensive, interpretive essays. deal of time building a collection of folk songs transcribing and filing hoping eventually to have records and examples ranging from English and Scottish traditional ballads all the way up to Modern Bluegrass. We transcribed from tapes already made and added new ones. From this collection we elected to During the summer we spent a great "Floyd Frazure" tells of a murder committed in Letcher County, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Small Bag Of Ballads From The Hills

Shelby, Richard.
Appalachian Review , Volume 1 (1) – Jan 8, 1973
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(With comments about origin and background plus musical notations by student musicologist, Richard Shelby) necessary about ballad-pushers and folklore collectors. If we seem here to of The Garden", we said all we felt In our essay-editorial, "The Keepers sang the "Ballad of Charles J. Guiteau". Vada Smith Osborne was born in 1897. range) and for our anticipated readers these ballads have relevance. They prove that old "traditional" ballads still have sparse existence in true oral transmission and that the hill folk hedge on our earlier pronouncements, so be it. But, not so. For our purposes (long- historical and cultural artifacts. Later composed ballads of their own. Although they may provide the superficial interest of novelty, they also have relevance as we expect to use more of them in more comprehensive, interpretive essays. deal of time building a collection of folk songs transcribing and filing hoping eventually to have records and examples ranging from English and Scottish traditional ballads all the way up to Modern Bluegrass. We transcribed from tapes already made and added new ones. From this collection we elected to During the summer we spent a great "Floyd Frazure" tells of a murder committed in Letcher County,

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1973

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