The scholar and the ballad singer / Joseph W. Hendron -- The English and Scottish popular ballads of Francis J. Child / Thelma G. James -- The ballad and communal poetry / Francis B. Gummere -- Ballad and dance / George McKnight -- Scottish ballads: their evidence of authorship and ownership / Alexander Keith -- The part of the folk singer in the making of folk balladry / Phillips Barry -- The interdependence of ballad tunes and texts / Bertrand H. Bronson -- Prolegomena to a study of the principal melodic families of folk song / Samuel P. Bayard -- Professionalism and amateurism in the study of folk music / Charles L. Seeger -- The meter of the popular ballad / George R. Stewart, jr -- Ballad source study: Child ballad no. 4 as exemplar / Holger Olof Nygard -- Lambkin: a study in evolution / Anne G. Gilchrist -- Some effects of scribal and typographical error on oral tradition / W. Edson Richmond -- The Scottish ballads / John Speirs -- Mary Hamilton and the Anglo-American ballad as an art form / Tristram P. Coffin.

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