IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

Sung by Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd. Table of contents The Broomfield hill. --The prickly bush or The maid freed from the gallows. --Johnnie O' Breadisley or Johnie Cock. --George Collins or Lady ...

Vol. 47, No. 2/3, Ballads and Songs in the Eighteenth Century (SUMMER/FALL 2006), pp. 179-202 (24 pages) The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation fosters theoretical and interpretive research ...

We may not today meet witches, fairies and elves round every corner, but we are only too familiar with the big themes in ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

Nimrod Workman was 77 years old when he first entered the recording studio. More than 50 years later, the young producer who helped capture the tracks remembers his friend’s unparalleled impact.

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where ...

As creepy as the term sounds, we've likely all heard, and even sung along with, a murder ballad. For centuries, murder ballads have served as a way for people to memorialize shocking or titillating ...