Q&A: How folk ballads explain the world
November 06, 2025
November 06, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 6 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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Q&A: How folk ballads explain the world
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Traditional folk ballads are one of our most enduring forms of cultural expression. They can also be lost to society, forgotten over time. That's why, in the mid-1700s, when a Scottish woman named Anna Gordon was found to know three dozen ancient ballads, collectors tried to document a . . .
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Q&A: How folk ballads explain the world
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Traditional folk ballads are one of our most enduring forms of cultural expression. They can also be lost to society, forgotten over time. That's why, in the mid-1700s, when a Scottish woman named Anna Gordon was found to know three dozen ancient ballads, collectors tried to document a . . .