William T. Becker Collection

The following books were separated from the collection and cataloged for Special Collections at the Archives of Appalachia:

Allen, John W. Legends & Lore of Southern Illinois. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1963.

Andrews, Edward Deming. The Gift to be Simple: Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1940.

Asch, Moses, and Irwin Silber, eds. 900 Miles: The Ballads, Blues and Folksongs of Cisco Houston. New York: Oak Publications, 1965.

Boni, Margaret Bradford, ed. The Fireside Book of Favorite American Folk Songs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

Botkin, B.A., and Alvin F. Harlow, eds. A Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Men. New York: Bonanza Books, 1953.

Botkin, B.A. The American Play-Party Song. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1963.

Brand, Oscar. The Ballad Mongers. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1962.

Burns, Robert. The Merry Muses of Caledonia: A Collection of Bawdy Folksongs, Ancient and Modern. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964.

Burt, Olive Woolley. American Murder Ballads and Their Stories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Chappell, William. Old English Popular Music. New York: Jack Brussel, 1961.

Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Song Book. New York: Tiparm Music Publishers, Inc., 1964.

Colcord, Joanna C. Songs of American Sailormen. New York: Bramhall House, 1938.

Colcord, Joanna C. Songs of American Sailormen. New York: Oak Publications, 1964.

Date, Henry, ed. Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 5 and 6 Combined: A Winnowed Collection for Young People’s Societies, Church Prayer Meetings, Evangelistic Services and Sunday Schools. Chicago: Hope Publishing Company, 1911.

Denisoff, R. Serge. Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.

DeTurk, David A., and A. Poulin, Jr., eds. The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival. New York: Dell Publishing, 1967.

Dwyer, Richard A., and Richard E. Lingenfelter. The Songs of the Gold Rush. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964.

Fowke, Edith, and Joe Glazer. Songs of Work and Freedom. Chicago: Roosevelt University Labor Education Division, 1960.

Friedman, Albert B., ed. The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World. New York: Viking Press, 1956.

Glazer, Tom. A New Treasury of Folk Songs. New York: Bantam Books, 1964.

Graves, Robert, ed. English and Scottish Ballads. New York: The MacMillan Company.

Gummere, Francis B. The Popular Ballad. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1959.

Hille, Waldemar, ed. The People’s Song Book. New York: People’s Artists, 1956.

Hindemith, Paul. Traditional Harmony. New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 1943.

Hindemith, Paul. Traditional Harmony. New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 1944.

Korson, George, ed. Pennsylvania Songs and Legends. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1960.

Lawless, Ray M. Folksingers and Folksongs in America.

Lochlainn, Colm O., ed. Irish Street Ballads. New York: Citadel Press, 1960.

Lomax, Alan. The Folk Songs of North American in the English Language. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.

Lomax, John A., and Alan Lomax. Best Loved American Folk Songs. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.

Music for Everyone No. 8: Scotland in Song. New York: Remick Music Corporation, 1953.

Nettl, Bruno. An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962.

Niles, John Jacob. Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles. New York: Bramhall House, 1961.

Old-Time Songs of Newfoundland. St. John’s Newfoundland: Gerald S. Doyle Limited, 1955.

Pilgrim Hymnal. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1935.

Putnam, John F. The Plucked Dulcimer and How to Play It. Berea, Kentucky: Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc., 1961.

Renshaw, Patrick. The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967.

Reynolds, Malvina. Little Boxes and Other Handmade Songs. New York: Oak Publications, 1964.

Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.

Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. New York: Oak Publications, 1983.

Sargent, Helen Child, and George Lyman Kittredge, eds. English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

Seeger, Peggy. Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger. New York: Oak Publications, 1964.

Seeger, Pete. The Incompleat Folksinger. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Sharp, Cecil J., and R. Vaughan Williams. A Selection of Collected Folk-Songs. Vol. 1. London: Novello and Company, Limited, 1936.

Sharp, Cecil J., ed. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Vol. 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Sharp, Cecil J., ed. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Vol. 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Silber, Irwin, ed. Hootenanny Song Book. New York: Consolidated Music Publishers, Inc., 1963.

Silber, Irwin, ed. Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War. New York: Oak Publications, 1964.

Silber, Irwin, ed. The Second People’s Song Book… Lift Every Voice! People’s Artists, 1957.

Thomas, Jean. Ballad Makin’ in the Mountains of Kentucky.

Thompson, Harold W., ed. A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1941-1856. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1958.

Williams, R. Vaughan, and A.L. Lloyd, eds. Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1959.

Winn, Cyril, compiler. A Selection of Some Less Known Folk-Songs. Vol. 2. London: Novello and Company, Limited.