Possibly this edition was some kind of a response to the folksong text edition published by the exile Latvians in Copenhagen. In 1955 in Latvia the Institute of Ethnography and folklore published a selection of folksongs. The text classification in this edition was made deliberately different from that in K. Barons "Latvju Dainas" putting the social relations in the first place (the first chapter in this edition is entitled "Bagatie un nabagie" 'The Rich And The Poor'), followed by work songs. There are three volumes altogether, each ending with a quite large lexicon of specific words found in the song texts.