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Street ballads in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America : the interface between print and oral traditions / edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2014.Description: 290 p. : ill., music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781472427410 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.0440908 23
Contents:
Introduction / Steve Roud -- Was there really a "mass extinction of old ballads" in the Romantic period? / David Atkinson -- Birmingham broadsides and oral tradition / Roy Palmer -- The Newcastle song chapbooks / Peter Wood -- Forgotten broadsides and the song tradition of Scots travellers / Chris Wright -- Welsh balladry and literacy / Ffion Mair Jones -- Ballads and ballad singers: Samuel Lover's tour of Dublin in 1830 / John Moulden -- Henry J. Wehman and cheap print in late nineteenth-century America / Norm Cohen -- "I'd have you to buy it and learn it": Sabine Baring-Gould, his fellow collectors, and street literature / Martin Graebe -- The popular ballad and the book trade: "Bateman's tragedy" versus "The demon lover" / David Atkinson -- Mediating Maria Marten: comparative and contextual studies of the red barn ballads / Thomas Pettitt -- "Old Brown's daughter": re-contextualizing a "locally" composed Newfoundland folk song / Anna Kearney Guigné.

Bibliography: p. 263-278.

Introduction / Steve Roud -- Was there really a "mass extinction of old ballads" in the Romantic period? / David Atkinson -- Birmingham broadsides and oral tradition / Roy Palmer -- The Newcastle song chapbooks / Peter Wood -- Forgotten broadsides and the song tradition of Scots travellers / Chris Wright -- Welsh balladry and literacy / Ffion Mair Jones -- Ballads and ballad singers: Samuel Lover's tour of Dublin in 1830 / John Moulden -- Henry J. Wehman and cheap print in late nineteenth-century America / Norm Cohen -- "I'd have you to buy it and learn it": Sabine Baring-Gould, his fellow collectors, and street literature / Martin Graebe -- The popular ballad and the book trade: "Bateman's tragedy" versus "The demon lover" / David Atkinson -- Mediating Maria Marten: comparative and contextual studies of the red barn ballads / Thomas Pettitt -- "Old Brown's daughter": re-contextualizing a "locally" composed Newfoundland folk song / Anna Kearney Guigné.

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