John Holmes McDowell

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John Holmes McDowell is a professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Among his earlier books is Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica.

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Books by John Holmes McDowell

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The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast

By John Holmes McDowell

Contributions by Carlos Fernández / Photographs by Patricia Glushko

The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years.

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