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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
A Brief List of Publications Pertaining to Folk Music from
Virginia
Compiled by Joseph C. Hickerson
Publication Date: January 14, 1971
Abrahams, Roger D., and George Foss.
Anglo-American Folksong Style. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Includes examples from Virginia.
Bronson, Bertrand Harris.
The Traditional Tunes of Child Ballads. 3 volumes published.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1959-. Includes
ballads from Virginia.
Buchanan, Annabel Morris.
Folk Hymns of America. New York: J. Fischer & Bro., 1938.
Includes a few hymns from Virginia.
Burrison, John A.
"Cap'n George Wheatley, Oldest Tangier-Man." Keystone
Folklore Quarterly, volume 11, number 1, Spring 1966, pp. 27-42.
[no author identified] Check-list of Recorded Songs in the English Language in
the Archive of American Folk Song to July, 1940. Washington,
D.C., 1942. Out of print but available in photocopy. A title
list with geographical
index.
Clarke, Mary Olmsted.
"Song-Games of Negro Children in Virginia." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 3, number 11, October-December 1890,
pp. 288-290.
Davis, Arthur Kyle, Jr.
Folk-songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1949.
More Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Chapel Hill: The University
of North Carolina Press, 1960.
Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1929. Reprint edition, Charlottesville: The University
Press of Virginia, 1969.
"'The Unquiet Grave': A New-Old Ballad from Virginia." In
English Studies in Honor of James Southall Wilson. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Studies, volume 4, 1951, pp. 99-110.
Davis, Arthur Kyle Jr., and Paul Clayton Worthington.
"Another New Traditional Ballad from Virginia: 'Jellon Grame'
(Child, No. 90)." Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume 22,
number 4, December 1958, pp. 163-172.
"A New Traditional Ballad from Virginia: 'The Whummil Bore'
(Child, No. 27)." Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume 21,
number 4, December 1957, pp. 187-193.
Green, Archie.
"The Carter Family's 'Coal Miner's Blues'." Southern
Folklore Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, December 1961, pp. 226-237.
Isham, Caddie S.
"Games of Danville, Va." Journal of American Folklore,
volume 34, number 131, January-March 1921, pp. 116-120.
Leach, MacEdward, and Horace P. Beck.
"Songs from Rappahannock County, Virginia." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 63, number 249, July-September 1950,
pp. 257-284.
Lomax, John A. and Alan.
Our Singing Country. New York: Macmillan, 1941.
Lumpkin, Ben Gray.
"Folksongs of the Early 1830's." Southern Folklore
Quarterly, volume 33, number 2, June 1969, pp. 116-128.
Parsons, Elsie Clews.
"Tale and Song from Virginia." Journal of American
Folklore, volume 34, number 131, January-March 1921, p. 125.
Rosenberg, Bruce A.
The Folksongs of Virginia: A Checklist of the WPA Holdings,
Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Charlottesville:
The University Press of Virginia, 1969.
Scarborough, Dorothy.
A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1937.
Sharp, Cecil J.
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. 2 volumes.
London: Oxford University Press, 1932. Reprint edition, 1960.
Shellans, Herbert.
Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains. New York: Oak Publications,
1968.
Smith, C. Alphonso.
"Ballads Surviving in the United States." Musical
Quarterly,
volume 2, number 1, January 1916, pp. 109-129.
Smith, Hobart.
"I Just Got Music in My Head'," Sing Out!, volume 14,
number 6, January 1965, pp. 10-13. Virginia folk musician.
Wilkinson, Winston.
"Virginia Dance Tunes." Southern Folklore Quarterly,
volume 6, number 1, March 1942, pp. 1-10.
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