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Northeast Folklore Volume 5: Twenty-One Folksongs From Prince Edward Island, Edward D. Ives Jan 1963

Northeast Folklore Volume 5: Twenty-One Folksongs From Prince Edward Island, Edward D. Ives

Northeast Folklore Monographs

From the introduction by Edward D. "Sandy" Ives: "The twenty-one songs printed in this little volume are a representative sample of the songs I collected on Prince Edward Island during the summers of 1957, 1958, and 1963. ... As a matter of fact, I wasn't even "collecting songs" in the usual sense of that term; I was very specifically looking for songs by Larry Gorman and for biographical. Information about him, and when L wasn't asking about Larry Gorman I was asking about Joe Scott. Thus the present collection is neither the result of my general acquaintance with the traditions …