Ballads Songs And Snatches

Author : C.M. Jackson-Houlston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351956055

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Ballads, Songs and Snatches by C.M. Jackson-Houlston Pdf

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary critics. In the nineteenth century many authors attempted to mediate the culture(s) of the working classes for the enjoyment of their predominantly middle-class audiences. In so doing they took songs out of their original social and musical contexts and employed a variety of strategies which - consciously or unconsciously - romanticised, falsified or denigrated what the novels or stories claimed to represent. In addition, some writers who were well-informed about the cultures they described used allusion to song as a covert system of reference to topics such as sexuality and the criticism of class and gender relations which it was difficult to discuss directly.

Author : Glenys Groves
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1367595541

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'Ballads, Songs and Snatches' by Glenys Groves Pdf

SOPRANO Glenys Groves has written this descriptive, often hilarious, account of her long, busy and incredibly varied career, which has encompassed virtually all aspects of a singer's working life and more - concerts, theatre, radio and recordings - from touring with the unique KATE BUSH through to membership of the prestigious ROYAL OPERA. Revealing all, this amusing and informative book charts her progress through the music business, with laugh-out-loud anecdotes recounting the pleasures - and pitfalls - of life as a PROFESSIONAL SINGER.

Author : Caroline Mary Jackson-Houlston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Allusions
ISBN : OCLC:652279872

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Ballads, Songs, and Snatches by Caroline Mary Jackson-Houlston Pdf

Author : David Evans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252091124

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Ramblin' on My Mind by David Evans Pdf

This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nicknames; and on lyric themes of disillusionment. Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.

Author : Haig Shekerjian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Ballads
ISBN : IND:39000006127190

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A Book of Ballads, Songs, and Snatches by Haig Shekerjian Pdf

Includes songs from thirty-six countries all over the world.

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781781688571

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Noise Uprising by Michael Denning Pdf

Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana's son, Rio's samba, New Orleans' jazz, Buenos Aires' tango, Seville's flamenco, Cairo's tarab, Johannesburg's marabi, Jakarta's kroncong, and Honolulu's hula. They triggered the first great battle over popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.

Author : Bertrand H. Bronson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520325203

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The Ballad as Song by Bertrand H. Bronson 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 1969.

Author : Erich Nunn
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 9780820347363

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Sounding the Color Line by Erich Nunn Pdf

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through such barriers. A critical disjuncture exists, then, between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. This is nowhere more apparent than in the South. Like Jim Crow segregation, the separation of musical forms along racial lines has required enormous energy to maintain. How, asks Nunn, did the protocols structuring listeners' racial associations arise? How have they evolved and been maintained in the face of repeated transgressions of the musical color line? Considering the South as the imagined ground where conflicts of racial and national identities are staged, this book looks at developing ideas concerning folk song and racial and cultural nationalism alongside the competing and sometimes contradictory workings of an emerging culture industry. Drawing on a diverse archive of musical recordings, critical artifacts, and literary texts, Nunn reveals how the musical color line has not only been established and maintained but also repeatedly crossed, fractured, and reformed. This push and pull--between segregationist cultural logics and music's disrespect of racially defined boundaries--is an animating force in twentieth-century American popular culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UVA:X030572527

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Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mario Dunkel
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783990128954

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The Stories of Jazz by Mario Dunkel Pdf

New Orleans jazz, Dixieland, Chicago jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, and free jazz: up until today, the history of jazz is told as a "tradition" consisting of fixed components including a succession of jazz styles. How did this construction of music history emerge? What were the alternative perspectives? And why did the narrative of a fixed tradition catch on? In this study, Mario Dunkel examines narratives of jazz history from the beginnings of jazz until the late 1950s. According to Dunkel, the jazz tradition is simultaneously an attempt to approach historical reality and the product of competition between different narratives and cultural myths. From the middlebrow culture of the 1920s to the New Deal, the African American civil rights movement and the role of the U.S. in the Cold War, Dunkel shows in detail how the jazz tradition, as a global narrative of the twentieth century, is intertwined with greater social and cultural developments.

Author : Larry Birnbaum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886384

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Before Elvis by Larry Birnbaum Pdf

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues--a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.

Author : Ian Bradley
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334049937

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Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers by Ian Bradley Pdf

Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas. Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Ian Bradley provides the first detailed, comprehensive, critical study and review of Sullivan's church and sacred music.

Author : Steve Newman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202939

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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon by Steve Newman Pdf

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.

Author : Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830560

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London by Oskar Cox Jensen Pdf

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

Author : Mary-Ann Constantine,Gerald Porter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0197262880

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Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song by Mary-Ann Constantine,Gerald Porter Pdf

This book takes a radical approach to the study of traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; even now long narratives hold a privileged place in most folk song canons. Yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, publications) overwhelmingly suggest that apparently 'broken' and drastically shortened versions are not perceived as incomplete by those who sing them. Dealing with a wide range of traditions and languages, this study turns the focus on these 'dog-ends' of oral tradition, and looks closely at how very short texts convey meaning in performance by working the audience's knowledge of a highly allusive idiom. What emerges is the tenacity of meaning in the connotative and metaphorical language of traditional song, and the extraordinary adaptability of songs in different cultural contexts. Such pieces have a strong metonymic force: they should not be seen as residual 'last leaves' of a once-complete tradition, but as dynamic elements in the process of oral transmission. Not all song fragments remain in their natural environment, and this book also explores relocations and dislocations as songs are adapted to new contexts: a ballad of love and death is used to count pins in lace-making, song-snippets trail subversive meanings in the novels of Charles Dickens. Because they are variable and elusive to dating, songs have had little attention from the literary establishment: the authors show both how certain critical approaches can be fruitfully applied to song texts, and how concepts from studies in oral traditions prefigure aspects of contemporary critical theory. Like the songs themselves, this book crosses and recrosses the perceived divide between the literary and the oral. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs.