Welcome to Northfield, Minnesota! This is the book they forgot to include in your orientation packet. Study it carefully. Keep it close when venturing ...

The bawdy exploits of “Barnacle Bill the Sailor” are normally relegated to late-night college parties, sports celebrations, and military clubs ...

This book is a new departure in which he has tried to convey, in glimpses, and through the characters he's met, something of the inner tone and timbre ...

The English ballad "The Gest of Robyn Hood" is the single most important source for the Robin Hood legend. This study uses the latest resources and techniques ...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs ...

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes ...

This long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's classic collection, Songs the Whalemen Sang, assembles more than 200 songs from whalemen's journals, log ...

Which came first, the ballad or the romance? Many famous tales exist in both early folk ballads and in written medieval romances. Scholars for more than ...

First found in Georgia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Bahamas in the 1920's and 1950's, and popularized during the folk revival of ...