- Series: West Virginia Classics
- Hardcover: 600 pages
- Publisher: West Virginia Classics; 1st Edition edition (October 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1938228685
- ISBN-13: 978-1938228681
Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is
a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First
published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that
were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources.
Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection
archives a range of styles and genres, from English and Scottish ballads
to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the
American West, boat and railroad transportation, children’s play-party
and dance music, and songs from African American singers, including
post-Civil war popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains
vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of
performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. With a
new introduction by Alan Jabbour, this reprint renews the importance of
this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of
the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon
folk-song research.
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