Ballad Studies

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783740277

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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts by David Atkinson Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674060458

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The Ballad and Oral Literature by Joseph Harris Pdf

Francis James Child, compiler and editor of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry, and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be called - oral literature. In this volume, 16 scholars from Europe and the United States offer original essays in the spirit of these pioneers. The topics of their studies include well-known Child ballads in their British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of France, Ireland, Scandinavia, medieval England, ancient Greece, and modern Egypt; and recent literary ballads and popular songs. Many of the essays evince a concern with the theoretical underpinnings of the study of folklore and literature, orality and literacy; and as a whole the volume re-establishes the European ballad in the wider context of oral literature. Among the contributors are Albert B. Lord, Bengt R. Jonsson, Gregory Nagy, David Buchan, Vesteinn Olason, and Karl Reichl.

Author : E. B. Lyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : BALLADS, English
ISBN : 0859910202

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Ballad Studies by E. B. Lyle Pdf

Contains material on the music of the ballads.

Author : E. B. Lyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000005803882

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Ballad Studies by E. B. Lyle Pdf

Contains material on the music of the ballads.

Author : Thomas Mckean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000092692403

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The Flowering Thorn by Thomas Mckean Pdf

"Folklore, history, literature, and technology combine with structuralism and functionalism, repertoire studies, and themes of cultural change to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the field today."--Jacket.

Author : Sarah Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252054044

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Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter by Sarah Nelson Pdf

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 : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Julie Henigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320678

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Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song by Julie Henigan Pdf

Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.

Author : Dianne Dugaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317357803

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The Anglo-American Ballad by Dianne Dugaw Pdf

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.

Author : David Buchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317550051

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Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore) by David Buchan Pdf

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 : Rita Pedersen,Flemming Gotthelf Andersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000005587931

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The Concept of Tradition in Ballad Research by Rita Pedersen,Flemming Gotthelf Andersen Pdf

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544801

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The English Traditional Ballad by David Atkinson Pdf

Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies - the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the 'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply chronological and linear.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000116558218

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Midwest Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Duggan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520313088

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The Song of Roland by Joseph J. Duggan Pdf

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 1973.

Author : Susan Brantly,Thomas A. DuBois
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443803168

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The Nordic Storyteller by Susan Brantly,Thomas A. DuBois Pdf

The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen consists of a set of nineteen research essays plus an introduction, written by colleagues and admirers of Niels and Faith Ingwersen, leaders in the field of Scandinavian Studies in North America for some four decades. A first section of seven essays, entitled “Songs and Tales in Oral Tradition,” presents research in the area of folklore studies, including balladry, saints’ lives, incantations, healing, legendry, and personal experience narrative. Articles take up such issues as classification, thematics, cultural and historical change, and the effects of technology on daily life. A closely related second section, “From Oral Tradition to Literature” includes three essays which examine the adaptation of oral tradition to literary forms, focusing on the works of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen, Esias Tegnér, Elias Lönnrot, F. R. Kreutzwald, and the illustrations of Arthur Rackham—all figures important in the rise of folklore as a key interest of Romantic nationalism. A further set of nine essays grouped under the title “Tales in Literary Form” examine aspects of the writings of some of the greatest storytellers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including H. C. Andersen, Herman Bang, Henrik Ibsen, Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason, Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, Isak Dinesen, Martin Andersen Nexø, Billy August, Hans Scherfig, Peter Høeg, Klaus Rifbjerg, Leif Panduro, and Kjartan Fløgstad. Articles address topics including autobiography, source criticism, symbolism, personal and national identities, and the representation of political ideals. Together the essays of this volume demonstrate the unflagging salience of narrative—of storytelling—in the personal lives and social experiences of Scandinavians and their neighbors, past and present.