Antedating of "Folk Song"

[Fred Shapiro]

folk song (OED 1870)

1843 _Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review_ Jan. 57 (Periodicals Archive
Online)  The lais, as folk song, as epic song, and as historic song,
the lyric lais, and the German leiche, the church sequence, and the
cloister prosae and cantilenae, are all most abundantly discussed.

Fred Shapiro


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