Author: Tristram P. CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The British Traditional Ballad in North America /Tristram P. Coffin
Author: Tristram P. CoffinThe British Traditional Ballad in North America, by Tristram P. Coffin
Author: Tristram P. CoffinThe British Traditional Ballad in North America
Author: Tristram Potter CoffinPublisher: Philadelphia : American Folklore Society
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
Author: Tristram Potter CoffinPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292735073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.
The British Traditional Ballad in North Americ
Author: Tristram Potter CoffinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258440268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Tristram Potter Coffin's The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick's supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad's story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
Author: Tristram Potter CoffinPublisher: Philadelphia : American Folklore Society
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The British Traditional Ballad In North America
Author: Tristram P CoffinPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022885912
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of the British traditional ballad and its influence on North American folk music. It examines the origins of the ballad tradition in Britain, and explores the ways in which it evolved as it was brought to North America by British settlers. The book also considers the social and cultural factors that shaped the development of the ballad tradition in North America, and the ways in which it has influenced American music and popular culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The English Traditional Ballad
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544802
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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 British Traditional Ballad In North America
Author: Tristram P. CoffinPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016055376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
Author: Tristram Potter CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description