The English Traditional Ballad

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544801

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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 : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309733

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Folk Song in England by Steve Roud Pdf

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292735071

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick Pdf

Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin
Publisher : Philadelphia : American Folklore Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCAL:B4347288

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin Pdf

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544818

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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 : David Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ballads
ISBN : OCLC:1169903377

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English Traditional Ballad by David Atkinson Pdf

Author : George Malcolm Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015031007852

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American Balladry from British Broadsides by George Malcolm Laws Pdf

Author : Tristram P Coffin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102288591X

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The British Traditional Ballad In North America by Tristram P Coffin Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of the British traditional ballad and its influence on North American folk music. It examines the origins of the ballad tradition in Britain, and explores the ways in which it evolved as it was brought to North America by British settlers. The book also considers the social and cultural factors that shaped the development of the ballad tradition in North America, and the ways in which it has influenced American music and popular culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IOWA:31858001776420

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child Pdf

Author : William Dallam Armes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UOM:39015043793960

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Old English Ballads and Folk Songs by William Dallam Armes Pdf

Author : Vic Gammon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138278335

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Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600 1900 by Vic Gammon Pdf

This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run through genres of song material and how these are repeated and reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song, historical popular music (including church music), ballad literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history, anthropology and sociology.

Author : A. L. Lloyd
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 0571245471

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Folk Song in England by A. L. Lloyd Pdf

A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era. In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of 'industrial folk song' reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life.

Author : Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141964324

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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Julia Bishop,Steve Roud Pdf

One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Author : E. B. Lyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Tristram Potter Coffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472843884

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin Pdf