Railroad Songs and Ballads AFS L61 - Library of Congress

which go beyond songs. In a sense, the folklorist "flags" a song almost as a signalman flags a train. A . seemingly peripheral anecdote may reveal much about a ballad's background or meaning. Such conĀ­ textual data are best presented when folksongs appear in printed or sound-recorded anthologies. ................
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