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  • Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Southwind Music; [sole selling agent: Hill and Range Songs, 1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 71-21Offsite
  • The Variety theater songster.

    • Text
    • N[ew] Y[ork] Popular Pub. Co. [187-?]
    • 1870-1879
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JPB 72-23Offsite

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  • Songs of the free and hymns of Christian freedom.

    • Text
    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
    • 1971-1836
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 73-1925Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Lyric voices; approaches to the poetry of contemporary song [by] Barbara Farris Graves [and] Donald J. McBain.

    • Text
    • New York, Wiley [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 73-63Offsite
  • Songs of the free and hymns of Christian freedom.

    • Text
    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
    • 1971-1836
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 73-2691Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • South Carolina ballads, with a study of the traditional ballad to-day. Collected and edited by Reed Smith.

    • Text
    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
    • 1972-1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.497-S (Smith, R. South Carolina ballads)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Protest songs in America, by David M. Rosen. Foreword by David Manning White.

    • Text
    • [Westlake Village, Calif.] Aware Press [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 73-31Offsite
  • The ballad of America: the history of the United States in song and story.

    • Text
    • New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IAG 73-515Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • A San Francisco songster, 1849-1939.

    • Text
    • New York, AMS Press [1972]
    • 1972-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 73-85 v. 2Offsite
  • Lawell and Drews Sassy Nigger songster. Containing a choice lot of the real, original darkey songs and sketches, as sung ... by ... Lawell and Drews.

    • Text
    • New York, De Witt, c1880.
    • 1880
  • American ballads and songs. Collected and edited by Louise Pound.

    • Text
    • New York, Scribner [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 74-3635Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Carolina harmonist; containing a choice collection of the most popular songs. To which is added a number of select jests, bon-mots, toasts, & c., calculated to kill care and promote festivity. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece ...

    • Text
    • Charleston, Published by Crow & Query; printed by John J. Evans & Co., 1803.
    • 1803
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JPC 77-6Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The sweet songster; a collection of the most popular and approved songs, hymns, and ballads, by Edward W. Billups.

    • Text
    • Wayne, W. Va., Arrowood Bros. [1970?]
    • 1970-1854
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNB 75-5Offsite
  • The song-singer's amusing companion. Being a selection of the best philosophic, sentimental, national and moral songs; and also a number of airy and amusing pieces. Arranged by Philo Musico, A. B., & c ...

    • Text
    • Boston: Printed for Sterne and Mann, No. 147, Market Street, 1818.
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JOC 75-1Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • American melodies; containing a single selection from the productions of two hundred writers. Compiled by George P. Morris. With illustrations designed and engraved by L. P. Clover, jr.

    • Text
    • New York, Linen and Fennell, 1841.
    • 1841
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Morris, G. P. American melodies)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNB 75-4Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KL (Morris, G. P. American melodies)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • American murder ballads and their stories, collected and edited by Olive Woolley Burt.

    • Text
    • New York, Oxford University Press, 1958.
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.71-B (Burt, O. American murder ballads)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • American labor songs of the nineteenth century / [selected by] Philip S. Foner.

    • Text
    • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1975] c1974.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 75-152 (S)Offsite
  • American folk poetry: an anthology.

    • Text
    • Boston, Little, Brown [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-RMRR PS593.L8 .E5 1974Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • The Peter, Paul and Mary song book. Photographs by Barry Feinstein.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Pepamar Music Corp. [196-?]
    • 1960-1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 75-137Offsite
  • An Arkansas ballet book / [compiled] by Mary Celestia Parler.

    • Text
    • Norwood, Pa. : Norwood Editions, 1975.
    • 1975-1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 76-192Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Pete Seeger on record. Vocal ed.

    • Notated music
    • [New York, Ludlow Music, 1970?]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 76-23Offsite
  • Dixon's (the celebrated buffo singer) oddities. A glorious collection of nerve working, side cracking, care destroying, mouth tormenting songs; as sung by Mr. G. Dixon, at New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and New-Orleans theatres, with shouts of applause ...

    • Text
    • [Ithaca, N. Y., Andrus, Gauntlett, 1851].
    • 1851
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents S 1138Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Popular cowboy songs, mountain ballads.

    • Text
    • [New York, Hobo News, 193-?]
    • 1930-1939
  • The coon can game.; a blues ballad tradition.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, 1968.
    • 1968
  • The Folk decade; a retrospective, 1960-1970.

    • Notated music
    • [New York] Warner Bros. Publications, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 76-446Offsite
  • The American songster; a collection of songs, as sung in the iron days of '76.

    • Text
    • [Norwood, Pa.] Norwood Editions, 1974.
    • 1974-1840
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 77-50Offsite
  • A Sailor's songbag: an American rebel in an English prison, 1777-1779. Edited with an introd. by George G. Carey.

    • Text
    • [Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, c1976]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 78-488Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • "Gentlemen, be seated!" : A parade of the American minstrels / by Dailey Paskman. Rev. ed.

    • Text
    • New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 07-37Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWFW 83-338Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 78-108Offsite
  • The new American songster : traditional ballads and songs of North America / compiled and edited by Charles W. Darling.

    • Text
    • Lanham : University Press of America, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 84-111Offsite
  • The 12-string guitar as played by Leadbelly; an instruction manual, by Julius Lester and Pete Seeger.

    • Text
    • New York, Oak Publications [c1965]
    • 1965
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 787.6-L (Lester, J. 12-string guitar)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text *MKPGM (Lester, J. 12-string guitar as played by Leadbelly)Offsite
  • Weep some more, my lady [microform] / by Sigmund Spaeth.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-2265Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The sun shines bright, by Kentucky's "Traipsin' woman," Jean Thomas.

    • Text
    • New York, Prentice-Hall, inc., 1940.
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text AN (Thomas) (Thomas, J. B. Sun shines bright)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Songs / compiled for the use of Minnesota Commandery.

    • Text
    • St. Paul : The Pioneer Press Co., 1886.
    • 1886
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433079008144
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    Text IKLD (Military Order of the Loyal Legion United States. Minnesota Commandery. Songs)Offsite
  • Plantonio, the pride of the plain; a ballad of the Old West; illustrated by Dick Jones.

    • Text
    • New York, Harcourt, Brace [1951]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NAS (Plantonio, the pride of the plain)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Vermont chap book, being a garland of ten folk ballads as they were sometime known to the people of Vermont and as they now repose in the Helen Hartness Flanders collection in the Middlebury college library, together with notes by Helen Hartness Flanders, preface by Donald Davidson, illustrations by Arthur Healy.

    • Text
    • Middlebury, Vt., Hand set by the Bread Loaf printers for the Middlebury college press, 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Vermont chap book)Offsite
  • American ballads: naughty, ribald, and classic, compiled by Charles O'Brien Kennedy with the assistance of David Jordan. Presented by the editors of Gold medal books.

    • Text
    • New York, Fawcett Publications [1952]
    • 1952
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Kennedy, C. O. American ballads)Offsite
  • Songs and ballads of the anthracite miner; a seam of folk-lore which once ran through life in the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania, gathered and edited by George G. Korson.

    • Text
    • New York, F. H. Hitchcock [c1927]
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Korson, G. G. Songs and ballads)Offsite
  • Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads / collected by John A. Lomax ... with an introduction by Barrett Wendell.

    • Text
    • New York : Macmillan, 1918.
    • 1918
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433076020159
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    Text NBH (Lomax, J. A. Cowboy songs. 1918)Offsite
  • East Tennessee and Western Virginia mountain ballads (the last stand of American pioneer civilization)

    • Text
    • London, Mitre press [1934]
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Cambiaire, C. P. East Tennessee and Western Virginia mountain ballads)Offsite
  • Chanteys and ballads, sea-chanteys, tramp-ballads and other ballads and poems, by Harry Kemp.

    • Text
    • New York, Brentano's [c1920]
    • 1920-
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBI (Kemp, H. Chanteys and ballads)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 8-*CBH (Kemp, H. Chanteys and ballads)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ballades and idyls, by Ernest McGaffey.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, Saturday Night Pub. Co., 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBI (McGaffey, E. Ballades and idyls)Offsite
  • Ballad of Tuzulutlan / by Sarah Norclif Cleghorn.

    • Text
    • Berne : Busag, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBI (Cleghorn, S. N. Ballad of Tuzulutlan)Offsite
  • Ballads of the Kentucky highlands, by Harvey H. Fuson.

    • Text
    • London, The Mitre press [c1931]
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBI (Fuson, H. H. Ballads of the Kentucky highlands)Offsite
  • Ballads of Square-toed Americans.

    • Text
    • New York, Macmillan Co., 1933.
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBI (Coffin, R. P. T. Ballads of square-toed Americans)Offsite
  • Songs sung in the southern Appalachians, many of them illustrating ballads in the making. Collected by Mellinger Edward Henry.

    • Text
    • London, The Mitre press [1934]
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Henry, M. E. Songs sung in the Southern Appalachians)Offsite
  • Minstrelsy of Maine; folk-songs and ballads of the woods and the coast, collected by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth.

    • Text
    • Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Eckstorm, F. H. Minstrelsy of Maine)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBH (Eckstorm, F. H. Minstrelsy of Maine)Offsite
  • New England history in ballads, by Edward E. Hale and his children, with a few additions by other people; illustrated by Ellen D. Hale, Philip L. Hale, and Lilian Hale.

    • Text
    • Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1903.
    • 1903
    • 1 Item

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    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075835888
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    Text NBI (Hale, E. E. New England history in ballads)Offsite
  • Frankie and Johnny, by John Huston; illustrated by Covarrubias.

    • Text
    • New York, A. & C. Boni [c1930]
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 8-NBM (Huston, J. Frankie and Johnny)Offsite
  • Bawdy ballads and lusty lyrics.

    • Text
    • Indianapolis, M. Drake [c1935]
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 8-NCI (Johnson, J. H. Bawdy ballads)Offsite
  • Specimens of Mississippi folk-lore collected with the assistance of students and citizens of Mississippi and edited by Arthur Palmer Hudson. Published under the auspices of the Mississippi folk-lore society, 1928.

    • Text
    • Ann Arbor, Mich., Mimeographed and printed by Edwards brothers, c1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ZBD (Hudson, A. P. Specimens of Mississippi folk-lore)Offsite

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