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Author : George Malcolm Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Ballads, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106000765096
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414830360
Author : George Malcolm Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000006059020
Author : Patricia Fumerton,Anita Guerrini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317176374
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.
Author : George Malcolm Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015025337026
Most ballad scholarship has focused on the ballad as purely a folk form, and very few scholars or other readers of poetry have a clear idea of the effects of ballads on dozens of literary figures or of the ballad as an art form. Professor Laws, whose previous authoritative works include Native American Balladry and American Balladry from British Broadsides, here provides the first expert study of balladry by sophisticated poets writing for literate audiences. Professor Laws first summarizes the two stylistic groups of ballads, then categorizes the ballad’s subject matter, and shows the range and variety of balladry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, Professor Laws discusses contemporary literary ballads which use ballad form but employ language and subject matter of their own, citing examples from Hardy, Housman, and Auden, among others. This comprehensive treatment indicates fully the significance of literary ballads in the study of English poetry. A much needed work, it no doubt will become standard for eighteenth- to twentieth-century poetic studies.
Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 1409419207
Northern Ireland remains a divided community in which traditional culture is widely understood as a marker of religious affiliation and ethnic identity. David Cooper provides an analysis of the characteristics of traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, as well as an ethnographic and ethnomusicological study of a group of traditional musicians from County Antrim. In particular, he offers a consideration of the cultural dynamics of Northern Ireland with respect to traditional music.
Author : Patricia Fumerton,Anita Guerrini,Kris McAbee
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754662489
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain.
Author : John Holloway,Joan Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000155259
Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense Madden Collection in the University Library, Cambridge, continutes the same literary emphasis, especially with a large number of pieces exploiting all the bustle, humour and variety of life in London - the colourful, crowded, rapidly-expanding metropolis of the period. Other sections concentrate on more traditional themes like crime and transportation, religion (some moving 'freemason' songs), love-making, sex and the 'sex war': or on fashion, the Royal Family and its escapades, and life in the army or navy. There is also an extensive collection of 'Napoleon' ballads, ranging from the early years through to his final re-internment in Paris. This book, illustrated with some remarkable large-scale contemporary woodcuts, should interest not only social historians and students of literature, but also all who have an ear for the verse of the people. This book was first published in 1979.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266866
This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
Author : John Minton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604733273
When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South covers a revolution in artist performance and audience perception through close examination of hundreds of key “hillbilly” and “race” records released between the 1920s and World War II. In the postwar period, regional strains recorded on pioneering 78 r.p.m. discs exploded into urban blues and R&B, honky-tonk and western swing, gospel, soul, and rock 'n' roll. These old-time records preserve the work of some of America's greatest musical geniuses such as Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Charlie Poole, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. They are also crucial mile markers in the course of American popular music and the growth of the modern recording industry. When these records first circulated, the very notion of recorded music was still a novelty. All music had been created live and tied to particular, intimate occasions. How were listeners to understand an impersonal technology like the phonograph record as a musical event? How could they reconcile firsthand interactions and traditional customs with technological innovations and mass media? The records themselves, several hundred of which are explored fully in this book, offer answers in scores of spoken commentaries and skits, in song lyrics and monologues, or other more subtle means.
Author : David Buchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317550051
Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms as wonder tales or Märhcen, classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends, and guisers’ plays. The texts chosen cover the main regional traditions of Lowland Scotland, from Galloway to the Shetlands, and span a number of centuries, through both pre- and post-industrial periods, from a sailor’s worksong of the sixteenth century to modern urban legends just recently recorded. The book is arranged in four sections, on Folk Narrative, Folksong, Folksay, and Folk Drama, each with an introduction and a bibliographical essay setting the material in context and indicating some of its international links. Folk literature itself is brought into firm focus by discussion and generic example, and the anthology as a whole illuminates substantial areas of Scottish social and cultural life.
Author : Sarah Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252054044
A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused on preserving the music in its unaltered form. Sarah Jane Nelson chronicles Hunter’s song collecting adventures alongside portraits of the singers and mentors he met along the way. The guitar-strumming Hunter picked up the recording habit to expand his repertoire but almost immediately embraced the role of song preservationist. Being a local allowed Hunter to merge his native Ozark earthiness with sharp observational skills to connect--often more than once--with his singers. Hunter’s own ability to be present added to that sense of connection. Despite his painstaking approach, ballad collecting was also a source of pleasure for Hunter. Ultimately, his dedication to capturing Ozarks song culture in its natural state brought Hunter into contact with people like Vance Randolph, Mary Parler, and non-academic folklorists who shared his values.
Author : Roger deVeer Renwick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1604738189
A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578787
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521586801
This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.