David Atkinson, Steve Roud

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America (eBook, PDF)

The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature'. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers. This volume engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature's interaction with and influence on oral traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317049210
• Artikelnr.: 44873615

Autorenporträt

David Atkinson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK. Steve Roud is an independent scholar in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Was There Really a 'Mass Extinction of Old Ballads' in the Romantic Period?
3: Birmingham Broadsides and Oral Tradition
4: The Newcastle Song Chapbooks
5: Forgotten Broadsides and the Song Tradition of the Scots Travellers
6: Welsh Balladry and Literacy
7: Ballads and Ballad Singers: Samuel Lover's Tour of Dublin in 1830
8: Henry J. Wehman and Cheap Print in Late Nineteenth-Century America
9: 'I'd have you to buy it and learn it': Sabine Baring-Gould, his Fellow Collectors, and Street Literature
10: The Popular Ballad and the Book Trade: 'Bateman's Tragedy' versus 'The Demon Lover'
11: Mediating Maria Marten: Comparative and Contextual Studies of the Red Barn Ballads
12: 'Old Brown's Daughter': Re-contextualizing a 'Locally' Composed Newfoundland Folk Song