NAmerica Child ballads book

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 12:04 PM

I just checked on line. Minstrelsy of Maine is available on line at reasonable prices, all less than $100.

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: GUEST,karen k
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 05:50 PM

Great news, Julia. I have all the books mentioned here. Will look forward to Vol. 2 of Barry.

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 10:55 AM

There is also a collection [single volume] called the Minstrelsy of Maine by Eckstrom [and, I believe, Hyde] which is also unobtaineum.

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: RTim
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 09:39 AM

I have a set of the Flanders books as mentioned above by Steve G.

Very good they are too. One day I may even find time to sing one or two of them!!
One Day!!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: GUEST,julia L
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 11:21 PM

British Ballads from Maine by Phillips Barry, Fanny Hardy Eckstorm, Mary Winslow Smyth
Hard to find

Fred and I are working on Volume 2 with Pauleena MacDougall of the Maine Folklife Center. We'd like to get it out next summer- say tuned

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 04:33 PM

I think the 4 vol set you are thinking of is
Helen Hartness Flanders
Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England.
University of Pennsylvania Press 1960
Tristram P Coffin and Bruno Nettl were involved.

Child's own ESPB mentioned above is mainly those collected in England and Scotland.

Subject: RE: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: Little Robyn
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 04:25 PM

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Edited by Francis James Child.
My one is a Dover Edition but you can find it online here - just scroll down about 1/3 of the way.
Child Ballads online.

Robyn

Subject: Folklore: NAmerica Child ballads book
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 11:54 AM

can anyone identify the book I had as a teenager. Four (5?) volume set of Child Ballads collected in N America (Canada I think, and I think Edith Fowke the collator, though I know Helen Creighton did similar work) Title and publisher?