Books

Allen, William Francis, C.P. Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. 1867. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.

Arnold, Byron. Folksongs of Alabama. Birmingham: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1950.

Ballanta-Taylor, Nicholas G.J. St. Helena Island Spirituals. Boston, Mass.; G. Schirmer, 1925.

Beckwith, Martha W. Folk Games of Jamaica. Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar University/Folklore Publications, 1922.

Bierhorst, John. Songs of the Chippewa. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974.

Botkin, Benjamin A. The American Play Party Song. Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska, 1937.

Burton, Thomas G., and Ambrose Manning. The East Tennessee State University Collection of Folklore: Folksongs. Monograph #4, Institute of Regional Studies. Johnson City, Tenn.: East Tennessee State Univ. Press, 1967.

Campbell, Olive Dame. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1917.

Chase, Richard. American Folk Tales and Songs. New York: New American Library, 1956. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1971.

Chase, Richard. Old Songs and Singing Games. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Chase, Richard. Singing Games and Play-Party Games. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Courlander, Harold. Negro Songs from Alabama. New York: Oak Publications, 1960.

Curtis, Natalie. The Indians' Book. 1923. Reprint, New York: Dover, 1968.

Erdei, Peter and Katalin Komlos, eds. 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read and Play. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1974.

Hugill, Stan. Shanties and Sailor's Songs. London: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1969.

Johnson, James Weldon and J. Rosamond. The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Jones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes. Step it Down. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Kenney, Maureen. Circle Round the Zero. St. Louis, Mo: Magna Music-Baton, 1974.

Kolb, Sylvia and John. A Treasury of Folk Songs. New York: Bantam Books, 1948.

Korson, George, ed. Pennsylvania Songs and Legends. Philadelphia: Univ. of Philadelphia Press, 1949.

Linscott, Eloise Hubbard. Folk Songs of Old New England. New York: Macmillan, 1939. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.

Lomax, Alan, and John A. Our Singing Country. New York: Macmillan, 1941.

Lomax, Alan. Folk Songs of North America. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1960. Reprint, New York: Doubleday, 1975.

Lomax, John A. and Alan. American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York: Macmillan, 1934. Reprint, 1972.

Lomax, John A., and Alan. Folk Song U.S.A. New York: Meredith Press, 1968.

Marsh, J.B.T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers, with their Songs. 1880. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1971.

McIntosh, David. Singing Games and Dances. New York: Association Press, 1957.

Newell, William Wells. Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.

Opie, Iona and Peter, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. Reprint, 1966.

Owens, William A. Swing and Turn: Texas Play-Party Games. Dallas, Texas: Tardy Publishing Co., 1936.

Parrish, Lydia. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. New York: Creative Age Press, 1942.

Pietroforte, Alfred. Songs of the Yokuts and Paiutes. Healdsburg, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1965.

Randolph, Vance. Ozark Folksongs. 4 vols. Columbia, Mo.: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1946-48.

Ritchie, Jean. Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book. New York: Henry Z. Wallick, Inc., 1964.

Rohrbaugh, Lynn. Handy Play Party Book. Delaware, Ohio: Cooperative Recreation Service, 1968.

Sandburg, Carl. The American Songbag. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927.

Scarborough, Dorothy with Ola Lee Gulledge. On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1925.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs for Children. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1948.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. Animal Folk Songs for Children. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday & Co., 1950.

Sharp, Cecil J. Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains. Vol. 1, First Series. London: Novello & Co. Ltd., 1921.

Sharp, Cecil J. Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains. Vol. 2, Second Series. London: Novello & Co. Ltd., 1923.

Sharp, Cecil J. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Maud Karpeles, ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. Reprint, 1973.

Sharp, Cecil J., and Maud Karpeles. Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968.

Tacka, Philip and Susan Taylor-Howell. Sourwood Mountain. Whitewater, Wis.: O.A.K.E., 1986.

Wolford, Leah Jackson. The Play-Party in Indiana. 1916. Edited and revised by W. Edson Richmond and William Tillson. Indianapolis: Ind.: Indianapolis Historical Society, 1959.

Zanzig, Augustus D. Singing America. Boston, Mass.: C.C. Birchard & Co., 1940.

Recordings

Ballard, Louis W. American Indian Music for the Classroom. Canyon Records 4143.

Botkin, Benjamin A., ed. Play and Dance Songs and Tunes. Library of Congress, AAFS L9.

Courlander, Harold. Ring Games, Line Games and Play Party Songs of Alabama. Folkways FC 7004.

Lomax, Alan, ed. African-American Blues and Game Songs. Library of Congress, AFS L4.

Lomax, Alan, ed. American Folk Songs for Children. Atlantic 1350.

Rinzler, Kate, ed. Old Mother Hippletoe. New World Records, 291, 1978.

Ritchie, Jean Children's Song & Games from the Southern Mountains. Folkways Records FC 7054, 1957.

Ritchie, Jean Marching Across the Green Grass. Asch Records AH 752, 1978.

Seeger, Pete. American Play Parties. Folkways, FC 7604, 1959.

Smithsonian Folkways www.si.edu/folkways

Yurchenco, Henrietta, ed. Latin American Children Game Songs. Asch Records AHS 51, 1968.