The English Traditional Ballad - 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 English Traditional Ballad write by David Atkinson. This book was released on 2017-07-05. The English Traditional Ballad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Folk Song in England
Folk Song in 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 Folk Song in England write by Steve Roud. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Folk Song in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
The English and Scottish Popular 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 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads write by Francis James Child. This book was released on 1898. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts - 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 Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts write by David Atkinson. This book was released on 2014-03-12. The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.
Folk Song in England
Folk Song in 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 Folk Song in England write by A. L. Lloyd. This book was released on 2008-09. Folk Song in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era. In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of 'industrial folk song' reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life.
