Folk songs -- History and criticism

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• Folk songs
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• Songs -- History and criticism
• Folk literature -- History and criticism

• Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Old Bush Songs, ed. by A. B. Paterson
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text

• Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (partial serial archives)

• Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("facsicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto ("facsicolo primo" only volume known to exist; in Italian; Maglie: Tip. del Collegio Capece, 1881), by Pietro Pellizzari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sui Canti Popolari di Alimena: Lettera a Giuseppe Pitrè (in Italian; Palermo: Tipografia Priulla, 1871), by Michele Messina-Faulisi
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hampton and its Students, by Mary Frances Morgan Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)

• Hampton and its Students, by Mary Frances Morgan Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)

• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Naroda Umjetnost: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (in Croatian and English, and other languages; 1962-) (partial serial archives)

• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made From the Mouths of the People (with piano arrangements; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1891), by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, ed. by Robert Bell (Gutenberg text)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• Irish Melodies: The Original Airs Restored and Arranged for the Voice with Pianoforte Accompaniment (London and New York: Boosey and Co., c1895), by Thomas Moore, ed. by Charles Villiers Stanford (page images of music scores at libraryireland.com)

• Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes (London: Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by D. Nutt, 1907), ed. by Walter Jekyll, contrib. by Alice Werner, Charles Samuel Myers, and Lucy Etheldred Broadwood
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Im Röseligarte: Schweizerische Volkslieder (5 volumes (6th volume may still have US copyright); in Swiss German; Bern: A. Francke, 1908-1912), ed. by Otto von Greyerz, illust. by Rudolf Münger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Richard Keeling (HTML at UC Press)

• Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies (1882), by Alfred Perceval Graves and Charles Villiers Stanford (sheet music images at libraryireland.com)

• Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Richard Keeling (HTML at UC Press)

• The Bard of the Dimbovitza: Roumanian Folk-Songs Collected From the Peasants (London: J. R. Osgood, 1897), by Elena Vacarescu, trans. by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettell (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Songs of the Russian People, As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life (second edition; London: Ellis and Green, 1872), by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems (Dent and Dutton edition, 1916), by Florence Randal Livesay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Richard Keeling (HTML at UC Press)

• The Lais of Marie de France: A Verse Translation (selection of eight of the twelve), by Marie de France, ed. by Judith P. Shoaf (PDF files with commentary at ufl.edu)

• Finger Plays for Nursery and Kindergarten, by Emilie Poulsson, contrib. by Cornelia C. Roeske, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• Poetic Origins and the Ballad (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Louise Pound (PDF at unl.edu)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)

• Oral Tradition (full serial archives)

• Oral Literature in Africa (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Songs of the Tewa (New York: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, c1933), ed. by Herbert Joseph Spinden (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1867), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie Laidlay Weston
  • HTML at celtic-twilight.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Quest of the Holy Grail, by Jessie Laidlay Weston (PDF at thedcl.org)

• Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1994), by Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland (1878), by John Thackray Bunce (Gutenberg text)
• A Study of Fairy Tales, by Laura Fry Kready (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)
• Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC Press)
• A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)

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