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Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Ballads and Balladists of North Carolina; Part iii: People and Trends in North Carolina Folk Music; Part iv: References

See also: "Ballad of Tom Dooley"; Mountain Dance and Folk Festival; Southern Folklife Collection.

Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Ballad as Song (1969).

Louis W. Chappell, Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle (1939).

Tristram P. Coffin, The British Traditional Ballad in North America (1977).

Wayne Erbsen, Front Porch Old-Time Songs, Jokes and Stories (1993).

Loyal Jones, Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1984).

Dorothy Scarborough, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains: American Folk Songs of British Ancestry (1937).

Citation

Baker, Bruce E., Carole W. Troxler, and Wiley J. Williams. "Folk Music." NCpedia. Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press. Accessed on January 11th, 2025. https://ncpedia.org/folk-music-part-4-references.