Author: Derby countyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The ballads & songs of Derbyshire, ed. by L. Jewitt
Author: Derby countyThe Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
According to the author of "The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire," the book contains fifty ballads and songs, many of them extremely curious and all highly interesting, which are purely Derbyshire and relate entirely to that county, to events which have happened within its bounds, or to Derbyshire families. The book is incredibly valuable in terms of local folklore studies or for the fans of the history of England.
The ballad-history of 'the wonderful Derby ram', sketches by P. Atkinson, with an intr. and notes by A. Wallis
Author: Derby ramThe English Traditional Ballad
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544810
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
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 English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Author: Francis James ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810869896
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Roxburghe Ballads
Author: William ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description