A Book of British Ballads
Title | A Book of British Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Palmer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
British ballads and songs
Title | British ballads and songs PDF eBook |
Author | Vance Randolph |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780826203007 |
Ballads, Songs and Snatches
Title | Ballads, Songs and Snatches PDF eBook |
Author | C.M. Jackson-Houlston |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351956051 |
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.
Old English Ballads and Folk Songs
Title | Old English Ballads and Folk Songs PDF eBook |
Author | William Dallam Armes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Ballads |
ISBN |
The Joan Baez Songbook
Title | The Joan Baez Songbook PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Baez |
Publisher | N[ew] Y[ork] : Ryerson Music Publishers |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Sixty-six songs, with added chord symbols and historical notes.
The English Traditional Ballad
Title | The English Traditional Ballad PDF eBook |
Author | David Atkinson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351544802 |
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.
The Joan Baez Songbook
Title | The Joan Baez Songbook PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Siegmeister |
Publisher | Oak Publications. |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Folk-songs, American |
ISBN | 9780825649738 |
Sixty-six songs comprising the repertoire of America's best-loved folksinger, with historical musical annotations, arranged for piano/vocal with chord symbols. Includes: Amazing Grace * House of the Rsing Sun * Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream * Where Have All the Flowers Gone * and more.