Traditional ballads are among my abiding preoccupations. This page offers links to descriptions of my own field work, as well as other sites of interest to ballad studies.
Other ballad links
The 26th annual I.B.C. conference (Swansea)
The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
The Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress
An Index to Recorded Sources of Folk Music
Martin Nail's page of English folk music resources
Volkslieder Verzeichnis, a database of folk songs in English and German, with some MIDI tunes