"The Swede from North Dakota": Explicating a Euro-American Folksong
“The Swede from North Dakota,” a narrative folksong or ballad performed in a broken-English “Scandihoovian” dialect, has circulated in differing versions throughout America’s Upper Midwest since the early 1900s. Chronicling the misadventures of an itinerant Swedish farm hand, it has been: performed...
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Open Library of Humanities
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Ethnologia Europaea |
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| Online Access: | https://ee.openlibhums.org/article/id/1897/ |