Author: Patrick John Kenedy
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Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: David John Brennan
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure--the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one's own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?

Author: Ralph VARIAN
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873955805
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458483193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Nearly 60 traditional Irish ballads, including: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms * Black Velvet Band * Brennan on the Moor * Cliffs of Doneen * The Croppy Boy * Danny Boy * Down by the Sally Gardens * I Know My Love * I Never Will Marry * Johnny, I Hardly Knew You * Leaving of Liverpool * Minstrel Boy * Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels) * Red Is the Rose * When You Were Sweet Sixteen * Wild Rover * and more.

Author: William Roy Mackenzie
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Roger deVeer Renwick
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604738186
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.

Author: Franz Rickaby
Publisher: Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Languages : en
Pages : 1382

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Languages : en
Pages : 842

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