This episode covers James Francis Child himself, how he came to collect British ballads and how they were published. We also discuss the recording career of Woodrow Wilson’s First Lady who was the second person to commercially record a Child Ballad, and the discovery of Child Ballads in the American South.
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Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze
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Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music"
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Nate Wilcox's "Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st.
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