The Music of American Folk Song, and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).(Book Review)

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The Music of American Folk Song, and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music. Edited by Larry Polansky with Judith Tick. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. [210 pp. ISBN 1-58046-095-X. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, indexes.

In 1941, the Macmillan Company published Our Singing Country. a compilation of American ballads and folk songs collected by John and Alan Lomax and transcribed from phonograph recordings by Ruth Crawford Seeger, who was credited as "music editor" (reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2000). The anthology, a ...

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