...This chapter examines the movement of folk texts across cultural and political boundaries in Ireland and the arrival and persistence of these texts in the southern Appalachian Mountains. It considers two strains of Appalachian music—the ballad (or narrative folk song) and the whiskey song...

... prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators...

...This chapter examines Bob Dylan’s songwriting craft, by tracing the complex influence and genealogies of Dylan’s compositions throughout the 1960s as he crossed the Atlantic in person. It documents the inspiration of Child Ballads and other British folk song on Dylan’s writing and then considers...

... Ballads and Folksongs Sung by Richard Dyer-Bennet, Richard Dyer-Bennet: Lute Singer, Babes of the Zoo, and Love Songs. Of the eighty-four songs recorded on these early albums, Dyer-Bennet rerecorded only 65 under his own label. Ballads...

... of how Irish culture was transmitted. The discussion ranges from Appalachian ballads, to Gone With the Wind, to the Irish rock band U2, to Atlantic-spanning literary friendships. Rather than seeing the Irish presence as “natural” or something completed in the past, these chapters posit...

... and then Kincaid in terms of an “Anglo-Saxon ancestry” that demonstrates the manner in which investments in racial difference structure the way folk music is understood as it is formed and re-formed across the Atlantic at different times. Appalachian ballads Browning Robert Child Francis James Lomax John Sharp...

...In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular...