folk song collector

C26456
concept

A folk song collector is an individual who seeks out, documents, and preserves traditional songs from various communities, often recording their melodies, lyrics, and cultural contexts for historical and scholarly purposes.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
folk song collector canonical 5
American folklorist 1
ballad collector 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: folk song collector
Generated description
A folk song collector is an individual who seeks out, documents, and preserves traditional songs from various communities, often recording their melodies, lyrics, and cultural contexts for historical and scholarly purposes.

Instances (10)

Instance Via concept surface
Antoinette Marchand
surface form: Alan Lomax
American folklorist
Cecil Sharp
John Lomax song collector
Frank Warner
Allan Cunningham (poet)
surface form: Allan Cunningham
ballad collector
George Butterworth
William Sandys collector of Christmas carols
English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions folk music study
Maud Karpeles
Charles Marson