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Buchan, David. "The Agricultural Society," "The Border Region," "The Clannit Society," (pp. 7-51); "Balladry and Oral Poetry," "The Oral Ballads of Mrs. Brown," "The Substance of Ballads," (pp. 51-86), and "Conclusion" (pp. 271-77). In The Ballad and the Folk. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997.

Child, Francis James. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. New York: Dover, 1965, Vol. I. The Introduction.

Dugaw, Dianne, ed. "Addison" (pp. 3-11), "Percy" (pp. 13-21), "Ritson" (pp. 23-31), "Scott" (pp. 33-43), and "Motherwell" (pp. 45-56), and pp. 57-67. In The Anglo-American Ballad: a folklore casebook. New York; London: Garland, 1995.

Dugaw, Dianne. "The Popular Marketing of 'Old Ballads': The Ballad Revival and Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism Reconsidered." Eighteenth-Century Studies 21, no. 1 (1987): 71-90.

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Harker, Dave. "Introduction" (pp. ix-xvii), "The Early Mediators" (pp. 3-14), "From Thomas Percy to Joseph Ritson," and "From Walter Scott to Robert Chambers" (pp. 15-77), pp. 101-37, and on Cecil Sharp (pp. 172-197). In Fakesong: The Manufacture of British "Folksong" 1700 to the Present Day. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985.

Lloyd, A. L. "The Foundations of Folk Song." In Folk Song in England. New York: International Publishers, 1967, pp. 11-90. (Skim pp. 36-53, which is Lloyd's account of the special musical qualities of folkmusic)

MacDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. 58-62, 81-92.

Muir, Willa. "Children's Singing Games," and "Singing and Listening to Oral Poetry" (pp. 9-53);"Ballad Background II," "The Northern Scottish Background," and "Story Material" (pp. 71-107). In Living with Ballads. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Our Singing Country: Folk songs and Ballads. Collected and Compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. New York: Macmillan, 1941. Introduction, Preface, and Musical Preface (xiii-xxxv) and pp. 149-177.
Compare "Old Bangum" to Child 18 (Sir Lionel) and "Sweet William" to Child 7 (Earl Brand) both musically and literally. Look at "John Riley" and "John Henry" in the Lomaxes' Our Singing Country.

Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1988, pp. 1-49, 95-178, 224-256.
N. B. There is a cut of "Lord Bateman" on the CD.

Southern, Eileen J. Readings in Black American Music. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983, pp. 4-26, 91-121.

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Whisnant, David. "Hindman Settlement School" (pp. 19-101), "Olive Dame Campbell" (pp. 105-179), and "The White Top Festival" (pp. 181-252). In All That is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.