Culture, humanities & social science
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland
By Ruth Perry, Professor Emeritus and Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of the Humanities
Oxford University Press · 2025
In "The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland," Ruth Perry details what we know about the ways folk ballads were created and transmitted; how Anna Gordon came to know so many; the social and political climate in which they existed; and why these songs meant so much in Scotland and elsewhere in the Atlantic world.
From Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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