The Printed Record of an Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon Brown's Ballads

Traditional ballads-those sung narratives whose origins are uncertain and whose authorship is unknown-have been difficult for literary scholars to account for and to analyze. Anonymous folk songs, they have moved between oral tradition and printed versions in broadsides or chapbooks and back again o...

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Main Author: Perry, Ruth (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Carolina Press, 2013-04-04T18:07:52Z.
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