Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids

A Brief Bibliography on Maryland Folksong and Dance

Compiled by Kate Jarrett and Gerald C. Williams
Publication Date: June 16, 1977

Behre, H. Edward.
"Square Dancing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland." Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume 9, number 4, December 1945, pp. 213-221.

Bergen, Fanny D.
"On the Eastern Shore." Journal of American Folklore, volume 2, number 4, January-March 1889, pp. 295-300.

Carey, George C.
Maryland Folk Legends and Folk Songs. Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1971. Pp. 88-117.

Maryland Folklore and Folklife. Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1970. Pp. 50-63.

Carey, George C. et al.
Final Report of the Study Commission on Maryland Folklife with an Introductory Guide to Maryland Folklore and Folklife. Bethesda: Study Commission of Maryland Folklife, 1970. Part I, pp. 20-22.

"Maryland Folklore." The Sun (Baltimore), October 20, 1974, Supplement, pp. 1-40. Pp 30-31, 36-37.

Dalsemer, Robert.
"The Buzzards' Glory Barn Dance 1928-1966." Country Dance and Song, number 6, 1974, pp. 4-8.

"Square Dancing at Maryland Line." Country Dance and Song, number 7, 1975, pp. 15-19.

Herrick, R. F.
"Cupid's Arrow." Journal of American Folklore, volume 18, number 68, January-March 1905, p. 276.

McMillan, Douglas J.
"Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight from Maryland." Journal of American Folklore, volume 78, number 308, April-June 1965, pp. 156-157.

Speers, Mary Walker Finley.
"Maryland and Virginia Folk-Lore." Journal of American Folklore, volume 26, number 89, January-March 1913, pp. 190-191.

"Negro Songs and Folk-Lore." Journal of American Folklore, volume 23, number 87, January-March 1910, pp. 435-439.

Warnick, Florence.
"Play Party Songs in Western Maryland." Journal of American Folklore, volume 54, numbers 213-214, July-December 1941, pp. 162-166.

Whitney, Annie W. and Caroline C. Bullock.
Folk-lore from Maryland. New York: American Folklore Society, 1925. (Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, volume 18.) Reprint edition, New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. Pp. 130-173.