A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts ha

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that Englan

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recor

This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread f

This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and mus