Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 write by Patricia Fumerton. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads write by Sarah F. Williams. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America write by David Atkinson. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England write by Patricia Fumerton. This book was released on 2021-01-01. The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fugitive—individual elements migrated freely from one broadside to another—some 11,000 to 12,000 of these artifacts pre-1701 survive, though many others have undoubtedly been lost. Since 2003, Patricia Fumerton and a team of associates at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been finding, digitizing, cataloging, and recording these materials to create the English Broadside Ballad Archive. In this magisterial and long-awaited volume, Fumerton presents a rich display of the fruits of this work. She tracks the fragmentary assembling and disassembling of two unique extant editions of one broadside ballad and examines the loose network of seventeenth-century ballad collectors who archived what were essentially ephemeral productions. She pays particular attention to Samuel Pepys, who collected and bound into five volumes more than 1,800 ballads, and whose preoccupations with black-letter print, gender, and politics are reflected in and extend beyond his collecting practices. Offering an extensive and expansive reading of an extremely popular and sensational ballad that was printed at least 37 times before 1701, Fumerton highlights the ballad genre's ability to move audiences across time and space. In a concluding chapter, she looks to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale to analyze the performative potential ballads have in comparison with staged drama. A broadside ballad cannot be "read" without reading it in relation to its images and its tune, Fumerton argues. To that end, The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England features more than 80 illustrations and directs its readers to a specially constructed online archive where they can easily access 48 audio files of ballad music.
The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music
The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music write by Claude Mitchell Simpson. This book was released on 1966. The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
