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Thread #122336   Message #2684842
Posted By: Nerd
21-Jul-09 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Scarborough Fair / Robert Westall
Subject: RE: Origins: Scarborough Fair / Robert Westall
Hi Steve,

Yes, I am an American folklorist (also named Steve) with a day job at the Library of Congress. The links below are therefore to LC permalink records, which can give you the full bibliographic details.

Barre's only book on balladry is the aforementioned Morning Dew and Roses.

He also edited a volume with D.K. Wilgus, entitled The Ballad and the Scholars.

Finally, he appears to have been the singer on a recording of ballads intended to accompany a literature textbook, called simply Ballads!

(Barre was a fine singer, and made one album back in the 1950s when he was 20 or so. He had a stroke several years ago, and I don't know if his voice made a full recovery.)

His other works on balladry include mainly papers published in journals such as Western Folklore and the Journal of American Folklore, some of which were revised to become chapters in his book.

Apart from that, Barre was an expert on both Native American (Indian) folklore, and Japanese folklore--quite a range of interests!