Author: William ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Popular Music of the Olden Time
Author: William ChappellThe Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time
Author: William ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Popular Music of the Olden Time
Author: William ChappellStars of Country Music
Author: Bill C. MalonePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252005275
Category : Country musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A collection of essays, written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, that provides portraits of the personal lives and careers of nineteen country music stars, with a chapter devoted to early pioneers such as Fiddlin' John Carson, and Carl T. Sprague.
The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time
Author: William ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era
Author: Karen McAulayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317084756
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.
Victorian Songhunters
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461674174
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.
A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode with Other Ancient Et Modern Ballads and Songs Relating to this Celebrated Yeoman ... Ed. by John Mathew Gutch ...
Author: John-Mathew GutchThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Author: Francis James ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Author: Francis James ChildPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145891
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries. Includes Parts IX and X of the original set — ballads 266-305 — plus indexes, glossary.