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| Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection | ||
| Field recordings from the 1940s of religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. From the Library of Congress' American Memory site. ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html ) | ||
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| Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and America | ||
| A useful site, particularly on Child Ballads and older English-language folk songs. ( http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html ) | ||
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| The Child Ballads | ||
| An exhaustive index of tunes from Child's collection. Based on files by Cathy Lynn Preston at the University of Colorado. ( http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Oral-Lit/English/Child-Ballads/child.html ) | ||
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| Barbara Allen | ||
| Text from Child and extensive notes on the song's history and transmission. ( http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/b/barbal23.html ) | ||
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| Primary Source account of singing Alabados | ||
| Music-related excerpts from the expedition diaries of Father Pedro Font. The full diaries are available online at the University of Oregon Web de Anza Archives ( http://www.solideas.com/DeAnza/ExpeditionDiaries.html ) | ||
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| Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads | ||
| From Oxford University's Bodleian library. Variety of visual and audio resources from the library's collection. ( http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm ) | ||
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| An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera | ||
| From the Library of Congress' American Memory site. Digital reproductions of over 28,000 primary-sources. ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html ) | ||
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| Chanteys: Work Songs of the Sea | ||
| Historical overview with many midi files and lyrics. ( http://anitra.net/chanteys/ ) | ||
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| Shenandoah | ||
| History of the ballad and a variant version with lyrics and mp3 recording by folk singer Roger McGuinn. ( http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/individ.php?mid=79 ) | ||
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| North by South: The African American Great Migration | ||
| The Music Alley page of this site from Kenyon College contains separate pages describing field hollers and work songs. ( http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2002/Music/Pages/music_main.htm ) | ||
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| McIntosh County Shouters | ||
| Page from the New Georgia Encyclopedia's Folklife site describing the living tradition of the ring shout in McIntosh County GA. ( http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/Folklife/FolkSongsandTales&a... ) | ||
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| The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip | ||
| Multiformat site accessing materials (@700 sound recordings, fieldnotes, other manuscripts) the Lomax's historic field work in 1939. From the Library of Congress' American Memory site. ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html ) | ||
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| La Musica Nuevo Mexicana: Religious and Secular Music from the Juan B. Rael Collection | ||
| This site includes song clips and song texts in Spanish, with English translation. ( http://lcWeb2.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rgmusic.html ) | ||
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| www.motherbedford.com | ||
| The tune for "The Liberty Song" is available here. Scroll to The Music of the 1770s, and then click the icon (bottom of the page). ( http://www.motherbedford.com/ ) | ||
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