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Southern culture, history is explored through analysis of the southern folk song Dixie

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The history of Dixie is as messy as it is long: a southern folk song that was ...
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Folk songs of the southern Appalachians as sung by Jean Ritchie forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen

SLRA copy 39088020219747 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of John Hasse. Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. It ...
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Folk-songs of the southern United States (Folk-songs du Midi des Etats-Unis) Edited by D.K. Wilgus

Part I -- Topography of the southern highlands -- Ancestry of the highlanders -- The question of origin or authorship -- The quest of the folk-song -- An attempt at classification of folk-songs -- ...
The New Yorker

What Can an Old Folk Song Tell Us?

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...
American Songwriter

3 Folk Songs From the 1970s That Still Shake the Ground We Stand On

The 1970s are arguably the most colorful decade of music in recent history, from Southern rock to disco to funk to R&B to hard rock to country and folk. One of those genres was, of course, the ...