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Child Ballads

Child Ballads is a scholarly corpus of 305 traditional English and Scottish narrative folk songs systematically cataloged and edited by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century to preserve the authentic texts and variants of pre-modern balladry.

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Authors

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2017–2026

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The Child Ballads

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Publications

19

Commonplace and Memorization in the Oral Tradition of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads

James H. Jones · Journal of American Folklore · 1961 · 39 citations

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Herder's Nineteenth Century

Philip V. Bohlman · Nineteenth-Century Music Review · 2010 · 36 citations

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Campion's "Lord Hay's Masque" and Anglo-Scottish Union

David Lindley · Huntington Library Quarterly · 1979 · 30 citations

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"No Borders to the Ballad Maker's Art": Francis James Child and the Politics of the People

Michael J. Bell · Western Folklore · 1988 · 29 citations

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The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads

W. Edson Richmond, Bertrand Harris Bronson · Journal of American Folklore · 1974 · 29 citations

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Authors

22

  1. BH
    Bertrand Harris Bronson

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 51 citations

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  2. EM
    Ewan MacColl

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  3. PS
    Peggy Seeger

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  4. BD
    Bob Dylan

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. DH
    David Humphreys

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

3

  1. Fitzsimons Army Medical Center

    Aurora, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    39 citations

  2. Haslemere Hospital

    Haslemere, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    36 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 4 publications · 91 citations

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  2. Western Folklore

    3 publications · 50 citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 37 citations

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  4. Music and Letters

    1 publications · 19 citations

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