California State University, Fresno

Folklore

Links to a World of Folklore

What would a website be without links?
What would folklore be without connections?

Links to folk song, and especially folk ballad sites:

• Traditional Ballad Index (English Language)
• Folk Music Index (of over 2000 recordings)
• Digital Tradition
• A Concordance to the Child Ballads
• Broadside Ballad Index
• Broadside and tune indices (many!) by Bruce Olson , with lots of good links
• International Ballad Commission (Kommission für Volksdichtung)

Links to genreral folklore and folkloristics on the 'Net:

most of these sites have extensive link libraries

• American Folklore Society
• American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
• Smithsonian Denter for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Fife Folklore Archives
• Folklore & Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania
• Fresno Folklore Society  
• Some Pages on Collecting
• Central California Folklore Archives

And some info about Urban legends, virus hoaxes, and chain letters:

• THE Urban Legends Reference Pages
• THE computer virus reference
• THE computer hoax reference
• Another cogent site about computer virus from the makers of Norton Utilities
• A really down-to-earth and valuable discussion of chain letters and hoaxes, and how to recognize them

Hints:
If you are looking for folklore on the Net, use the term "folklore" in Yahoo; doing the same in Google will net you over a million entries in less than a third of a second ... It pays to be precise!

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