Author: Peter W. Carnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ballads in the Charles Harding Firth Collection of the University of Sheffield
Author: Peter W. Carnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
Author: Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108903665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108903665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
Ballads in the Charles Harding Firth Collection of the University of Sheffield
Author: Peter W. Carnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ballad and Folksong
Author: Mary Ellen Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song
Author: Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197262887
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197262887
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Broadside Ballads and Song-sheets from the Hewins Mss. Collection in Sheffield University Library
Author: Peter W. Carnell
Publisher: [Sheffield] : Sheffield University Library and the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: [Sheffield] : Sheffield University Library and the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Folk Music Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Lore and Language
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
Author: Roy Eriksen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110870487
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110870487
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative".