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35258
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The author seeks to call attention to the imbalance in the understanding of relations between English-Scottish ballads and Scandinavian folkeviser, and the relation those two have to the French romancero traditionnel or chanson populaire. This imbalance came about from romantic nationalism in the 19th century and the author references works done by Grundtvig and Child.
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35973
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While orality and literacy is not the only dialectic involved in producing changes to oral tradition, the author applied the interdependence of orality and literacy to the transmission of ballads to a family in Madison County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1995,
p1-34, il, bibl
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35259
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This article is about Frank Proffitt and his relatives who loved to collect and play folk ballads. It includes several stanzas of the ballad “Dandoo,” and a picture copy of “Bo Lankin.”
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35673
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Horton Barker, a folk singer from Virginia, interviewed with the author about his life and folk singing. Several manuscripts came from the interaction, and the ballads are written out at the end of the article.
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35188
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A ballad describing the battleship North Carolina’s return to its home port by captain Piggy Purriss.
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28541
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Traditional music in North Carolina has been highlighted for excellence and authenticity for years. The history of traditional, old-time, and bluegrass music in Western North Carolina's mountains is detailed. Notable musicians, revolutionary playing styles and innovations, and the music’s origins in Africa, England, Ireland, and Scotland are noted.
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15116
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Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Scott Wiseman, are headline radio artists who hail from Western North Carolina. They have achieved considerable fame through the presentation of native mountain songs on the radio.
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35660
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In 1901, Nell Cropsey was murdered. Although her boyfriend was charged with her murder due to circumstantial evidence, the true events were never known. This has caused Nell’s story to become a legend, and different speculations and variations arose from the mystery. Along with the stories came several folksongs about the incident.
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35018
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Sheet music and lyrics to the ballad “Old Bangum,” about the hunting of a boar.
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35137
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This is a ballad about the life and death of Josiah Wedgwood Sheffield, also known as Old Joe Shuffle, who was a potter at Jugtown.
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35025
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Sheet music and lyrics to the ballad “Old Veen,” about a good hunting dog now laid to rest.
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35632
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Drawing from an article in the journal issue published in September 1973, the author came to possess the lyrics of “Sweet Sally,” a song that was in the Adams Manuscript.
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36539
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Although Greer was not a traditional folklorist, he contributed greatly to the continuing knowledge of Western North Carolina balladry. He both collected and sang ballads from around the state, along with passing on those he had collected to the /Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore./
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35744
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The author transcribed several songs that Mr. Lunsford performed.
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35196
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A list of eleven folksongs with lyrics and a brief introduction from whence they came. The songs are: “Blue Mountain Lake,” “Gilgarry Mountain,” “Dan Doo,” “Lord Lovel,” “The Ballad of Montcalm and Wolfe,” “Tom Dooley,” “Old Abe” or “We Go Marchin’ On,” “The Days of ’49,” “Lynchburg Town,” “Jolly Rovin’ Tar,” and “The Unreconstructed Rebel.”
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