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Turtle Creek to Busro: Notes on Shaker Ballads

Record #:
16516
Abstract:
Shaker songs and ballads are divided roughly into two groups. Wordless tunes, songs with wordless phrases that recur in formal patterns, and tunes with texts in unknown tongues; and others produced by the intellectual leaders of the sect.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955, p31-37, il
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