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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740272
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts written by David Atkinson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.

Publications of the Ballad Society

Author : Ballad Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Ballad Society written by Ballad Society and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)

Author : David Buchan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131755289X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore) written by David Buchan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.

The Roxburghe Ballads

Author : William Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roxburghe Ballads written by William Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music and Society in Early Modern England

Author : Christopher Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107610249
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Music and Society in Early Modern England written by Christopher Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.

The Ballad Collectors of North America

Author : Scott B. Spencer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810881551
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad Collectors of North America written by Scott B. Spencer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity fills this gap, documenting the efforts of those who transcribed and recorded North American folk songs. Both biographical and topical, this book chronicles not only the most influential of these "song catchers" but also examines the main schools of thought on the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects that they shaped. Contributors also consider the role of technology--especially the phonograph--in the collection efforts. Chapters organized by region cover such areas as Appalachia, the West, and Canada, while others devoted to specialized topics from the cowboy tune and occupational song to the commercialization of folk music through song collections and anthologies. Ballad Collectors investigates the larger role of the ballad in the development of American identity, from the national appreciation of cowboy songs in popular culture to the use of Appalachian song forms in radio broadcasts to the role of dustbowl ballads in the urban folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Finally, this collection assesses the changing role of songs and song texts in the academic fields of folklore, anthropology, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Scholars and students of American cultural and social history, as well as fans of North American folk and popular music, will find The Ballad Collectors of North America a fascinating story of how the American folk tradition gained greater visibility, fueling the revolutions that would follow in the writing and performance of American music.

The Bonny Earl of Murray

Author : Edward D. Ives
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066399
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The Bonny Earl of Murray written by Edward D. Ives and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of the popular Earle of Moray in 1592 near Edinburgh was the stuff of which legends are made. This inviting volume explores that legend, relates details of the Huntly-Moray (Catholic-Protestant) feud, and traces the ballad of the slain ''Bonny Earl'' through its four centuries of growth and change.''A romp! A fine book that will be welcomed by literature students, folklorists, and those interested in Scottish history.'' -- Roger D. Abrahams, author of Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South''A graceful and gripping account by a scholar whose love of scholarship, music, and teaching is obvious throughout.'' -- Marta Weigle, coeditor of The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad

The Ballad as Song

Author : Bertrand H. Bronson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325206
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad as Song written by Bertrand H. Bronson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, London

Author : Irish Folk Song Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, London written by Irish Folk Song Society and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ballad of Black Bart

Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765383535
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Black Bart written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the suspenseful Old West rivalry between a legendary Wells Fargo chief of detectives and a notorious stagecoach robber who between heists poses as an upper-class San Francisco gentleman.

The Roxburghe Ballads

Author : William Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roxburghe Ballads written by William Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Singing the News

Author : Jenni Hyde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351372998
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Singing the News written by Jenni Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of finding out news and information. It is a highly readable and accessible account of the important role played by ballads in spreading news during a period when discussing politics was treason. The study provides a new analytical framework for understanding the ways in which balladeers spread their messages to the masses. Jenni Hyde focusses on the melody as much as the words, showing how music helped to shape the understanding of texts. Music provided an emotive soundtrack to words which helped to shape sixteenth-century understandings of gendered monarchy, heresy and the social cohesion of the commonwealth. By combining the study of ballads in manuscript and print with sources such as letters and state records, the study shows that when their topics edged too close to sedition, balladeers were more than capable of using sophisticated methods to disguise their true meaning in order to safeguard themselves and their audience, and above all to ensure that their news hit home.

Victorian Songhunters

Author : E. David Gregory
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461674174
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Songhunters written by E. David Gregory and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.

The Bagford Ballads

Author : Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Bagford Ballads written by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anglo-American Ballad

Author : Dianne Dugaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317357795
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-American Ballad written by Dianne Dugaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1995. This book’s collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American scholarship’s questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph Addison’s discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves. The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and community as well as national genealogies and connections to contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on its importance and relevance.

Oral Poetry

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725239604
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Oral Poetry written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan's vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.

Ljudske balade med izročilom in sodobnostjo

Author : Marjetka Golež
Publisher : Založba ZRC
ISBN 13 : 9616182609
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Ljudske balade med izročilom in sodobnostjo written by Marjetka Golež and published by Založba ZRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V zborniku je petindvajset razprav raziskovalcev iz vsega sveta od Anglije, Bolgarije, Danske, Finske, Hrvaške, Madžarske, Makedonije, Mehike, Romunije, Rusije, Škotske, Walesa do ZDA in seveda Slovenije. Razprave so pregled mednarodnega raziskovanja ljudskih balad in predstavljajo, kako se tokovi preteklega in odsevi zgodovinskih časov, arhetipske zgodbe prepletajo z vdorom naših kulturnih in družbenih razmer tudi v nastajanje, odmiranje in ponovno oživljanje balad, tako da njihovo raziskovanje prinaša neizogibne spremembe.