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Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
A Brief List of Material Relating to New York State Folk Music
Compiled by Joseph C. Hickerson and William Thatcher
Publication Date: January 20, 1975
Bethke, Robert D.
"Old-time Fiddling and Social Dance in Central St. Lawrence
County." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 30, number 3, September 1974,
pp. 163-184.
Bishop, Fern.
"Songs My Grandmother Sang." Journal of American
Folklore,
volume 48, number 190, October-December 1935, pp. 379-383.
Botkin, B. A.
New York City Folklore. New York: Random House, 1956.
Case, Richard G.
"The Druse Case: Murder Ballad Fragments." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 25, number 2, June 1969, pp. 93-99.
Castagna, Barbara.
"Some Rhymes, Games, and Songs from Children in the New
Rochelle Area." New York Folklore Quarterly, volume 25,
number 3, September 1969, pp. 221-237.
Cazden, Norman.
The Abelard Folk Song Book. New York and London: Abelard Schuman,
1958.
"Catskill Lockup Songs." New York Folklore Quarterly,
volume 16, number 2, Summer 1960, pp. 90-103.
Dances from Woodland. Second edition, Bridgeport, Connecticut:
N. Cazden, 1955.
"A Man of Many Songs," Neighbors: A Record of
Catskill Life, (Phoenicia, N.Y.: Camp Woodland, 1967) pp. 20-25. See also
other issues of Neighbors.
"Regional and Occupational Orientations of American Traditional
Song." Journal of American Folklore, volume 72, number 286,
October-December 1959, pp. 310-344.
"The Story of a Catskill Ballad." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume 8, number 4, Winter 1952, pp. 245-266.
Cohen, Norman.
"The Persian's Crew -- the Ballad, its Author, and the Incident." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, December 1969,
pp. 289-296.
Curtis, Otis F., Jr.
"The Curtis Collection of Songs." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume 9, number 2, Summer 1953, pp. 94-103; number
4, Winter
1953, pp. 273-281.
Cutting, Edith E.
Lore of an Adirondack County. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Studies
in American History, Literature, and Folklore, volume 1, 1944.
"Peter Parrott and his Songs." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 3, number 2, Summer 1947, pp. 124-133.
"York State Farm Lore." New York Folklore Quarterly,
volume 7, number 1, Spring 1951, pp. 4-77.
"A York State Songbag: The Douglass-Stevens Manuscript." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 4, number 3, Autumn 1948, pp.
172-181.
Gardner, Emelyn Elizabeth.
Folklore from the Schoharie Hills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1937.
Glassie, Henry.
"'Take That Night Train to Selma'; An Excursion to the Outskirts
of Scholarship." Journal of Popular Culture, volume 2, number
1, Summer 1968, pp. 1-62. Reprinted in Folksongs and Their
Makers,
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press,
1970, pp. 1-70.
Gravelle, Jean F.
"The Civil War Songster of a Monroe County Farmer." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 27, number 2, June 1971, pp.
163-230.
Gray, Roland P.
"Balladry of New York State." New York History, volume
17, number 2, April 1936, pp. 147-155.
Haufrecht, Herbert, and Norman Cazden.
"Music of the Catskills." New York Folklore Quarterly,
volume 4, number 1, Spring 1948, pp. 32-46.
Jones, Louis C.
"Henry Backus, the Saugerties Bard." New York History,
volume 23, number 2, April 1942, pp. 139-148.
Kaufman, Charles H.
"An Ethnomusicological Survey among the People of the Ramapo
Mountains." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 13, number 1, March 1967, pp.
3-42; number 2, June 1967, pp. 109-131.
Knight, Lee.
"A Remembrance of Marjorie Lansing Porter 1891-1973." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 30, number 1, March 1974, pp.
77-79.
Lazare, June.
"Folk Songs of New York City." Sing Out!, volume 17,
number 2, April-June 1967, pp. 23-31.
McNeil, William K.
"A Schoharie County Songster." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 25, number 1, March 1969, pp. 3-58.
Nestler, Harold.
"Songs from the Hudson Valley." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 5, number 2, Summer 1949, pp. 77-112.
Older, Lawrence.
"Once More A-Lumbering Go." New York Folklore Quarterly,
volume 22, number 2, June 1966, pp. 96-103.
Porter, Marjorie Lansing.
"Collecting Adirondack Folklore." New York Folklore
Quarterly,
volume 22, number 2, June 1966, pp. 113-121.
Ring, Constance Varney, Samuel P. Bayard, and Tristram P. Coffin.
"Mid-Hudson
Song and Verse." Journal of American
Folklore,
volume 66, number 259, January-March 1953, pp. 43-68.
Rubin, Ruth.
"Yiddish Folksongs in New York City." New York
Folklore Quarterly,
volume 2, number 1, February 1946, pp. 15-23.
Schrader, Arthur F.
"Arcade Revisited: Some Additional Notes for A Pioneer Songster." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 24, number 1, March 1968, pp.
16-26.
Schwartz, Tony.
"New York, New York." In Newport Folk Festival
1967,
edited by Henry Glassie and Ralph Rinzler, n.p.: Gilbert Kravette,
1967,
pp. 12-13, 39.
Studer, Norman.
"George Edwards . . . Folk Singer of the Catskills." Sing
Out!, volume 5, number 1, Winter 1955, pp. 4-9.
"Our Neighbors and Their Music" in "The World
is a Neighborhood": Fourth Annual Folk Festival of the Catskills
(Phoenicia, N.Y.: Camp Woodland, 1943). See also other Festival
booklets.
Thompson, Harold W.
Body, Boots, and Britches. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.,
1940. Reprint edition, New York: Dover Publications, 1964.
Thompson, Harold W., and Edith E. Cutting.
A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript
of Western New York 1841-1856. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University
Press, 1958.
Tyrrell, William G.
"New York's Folklore on Recordings." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume 14, number 3, Fall 1958, pp. 224-232.
Warner, Anne and Frank.
"That's the Way They Lived." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume
22, number 2, June 1966, pp. 104-113.
Warner, Frank M.
"A Salute and a Sampling of Songs." New York Folklore
Quarterly, volume 14, number 3, Fall 1958, pp. 202-223.
Winslow, David J.
"An Annotated Collection of Children's Lore." Keystone
Folklore Quarterly, volume 11, number 3, Fall 1966, pp. 151-202.
Wyld, Lionel D.
Low Bridge! Folklore and the Erie Canal. Syracuse, New York:
Syracuse University Press, 1962.
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