Music · Jazz, Blues & American Roots
A topic within Jazz, Blues & American Roots, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Music.
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John A. Lomax
Argues that cowboy songs were a genuine oral folk tradition worth preserving in print before it disappeared, and collects them directly from working cowboys rather than published sources.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Dorothy Scarborough
Documents field collection of African-American folksong across the American South and argues that these songs preserve distinct regional and historical layers rather than being one undifferentiated tradition.
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