There is a god deal of scholarship on this going back to mid or early
20th-c. If I remember correctly the tunes for some Border Ballads were
preserved only in the folk tradition of the lower Appalachian Mountains,
carried there by 18th-c settlers in that region. Nancy may know far more
aboaut this than I do.
Carrol
On 6/15/2011 3:37 AM, David Boyd wrote:
> Similarly, one cannot help be struck by how most north american folk songs
> and tunes are just warmed-over traditional British ones (and how Bpb Dylan's
> success is in no small part the result of his plagiarism of them)
>
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