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Author | : Adrian Daub |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Ballads, German |
ISBN | : 9780190885502 |
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"The German ballad was an unusual poetic genre: supposedly inspired by a treasure trove of authorless poems that had for centuries circulated among the common people, the ballad attained popularity in the form of deeply ironic poems written by some of Germany's most canonic authors. Supposedly a celebration of the oral culture of the German Volk, the ballad instead circulated through the emerging channels of nineteenth century culture industry: from anthologies and picture books via the exploding market for song settings, from the opera house to the vaudeville stage, the ballad hewed to its medieval pretence while sounding surprisingly modern. This book traces the strange trajectory of this poetic genre from its origins in the late 18th century to its political appropriations in the 20th. Throughout, the ballad and its path across a wide variety of milieus and media told a surprising and contradictory story of the German nation. What The Ballad Knows shows that, even though the ballad arrived in Germany as a literary genre, it very quickly came to make its home in between different genres and even different media - to the point that laypeople were as likely to encounter it in a concert hall, a classroom, an art museum or a choral rehearsal as they were to encounter it in a book. When cultural conservatives in the early 20th century sought to claim the ballad as a straightforward and serious vehicle of German nationalism, they ignored just how complex the ballad's relationship to the nation had been, and what complexities within nationalism the form had managed to highlight through the decades"--
Author | : Adrian Daub |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190885491 |
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"The German ballad was an unusual poetic genre: supposedly inspired by a treasure trove of authorless poems that had for centuries circulated among the common people, the ballad attained popularity in the form of deeply ironic poems written by some of Germany's most canonic authors. Supposedly a celebration of the oral culture of the German Volk, the ballad instead circulated through the emerging channels of nineteenth century culture industry: from anthologies and picture books via the exploding market for song settings, from the opera house to the vaudeville stage, the ballad hewed to its medieval pretence while sounding surprisingly modern. This book traces the strange trajectory of this poetic genre from its origins in the late 18th century to its political appropriations in the 20th. Throughout, the ballad and its path across a wide variety of milieus and media told a surprising and contradictory story of the German nation. What The Ballad Knows shows that, even though the ballad arrived in Germany as a literary genre, it very quickly came to make its home in between different genres and even different media - to the point that laypeople were as likely to encounter it in a concert hall, a classroom, an art museum or a choral rehearsal as they were to encounter it in a book. When cultural conservatives in the early 20th century sought to claim the ballad as a straightforward and serious vehicle of German nationalism, they ignored just how complex the ballad's relationship to the nation had been, and what complexities within nationalism the form had managed to highlight through the decades"--
Author | : Robert Springer |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 162846996X |
Download Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history. “High Water Everywhere: Blues and Gospel Commentary on the 1927 Mississippi River Flood,” by David Evans, is the definitive study of songs about one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the United States. In “Death by Fire: African American Popular Music on the Natchez Rhythm Club Fire,” Luigi Monge analyzes a continuum of songs about exclusively African American tragedy. “Lookin’ for the Bully: An Enquiry into a Song and Its Story,” by Paul Oliver traces the origins and the many avatars of the Bully song. In “That Dry Creek Eaton Clan: A North Mississippi Murder Ballad of the 1930s,” Tom Freeland and Chris Smith study a ballad recorded in 1939 by a black convict at Parchman prison farm. “Coolidge’s Blues: African American Blues from the Roaring Twenties” is Guido van Rijn’s survey of blues of that decade. Robert Springer's “On the Electronic Trail of Blues Formulas” presents a number of conclusions about the spread of patterns in blues narratives. In “West Indies Blues: An Historical Overview 1920s-1950s,” John Cowley turns his attention to West Indian songs produced on the American mainland. Finally, in “Ethel Waters: ‘Long, Lean, Lanky Mama,’” Randall Cherry reappraises the early career of this blues and vaudeville singer
Author | : Oak Publications |
Publisher | : Oak Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1982-06-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1783235276 |
Download Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is a monument among ballad books containing 158 of the most popular Irish ballads and songs which echo and resound throughout the pubs of Ireland and indeed throughout the world by Ireland’s leading folk groups. Along with notes on many of the ballads, this book features a fine collection of unique photographs, drawings and engravings depicting scenes of Ireland’s bygone days. Contents include, “The Town I Loved So Well,” “The Wild Rover,” The Rose of Tralee,” “The Cliffs of Doneen,” “Cockles and Mussels,” “The Patriot Game,” “A Nation Once Again,” “Old Maid in a Garrett,” “Nora,” “James Connolly,” “I’ll Tell Me Ma” and many more.
Author | : David Metzer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1108509746 |
Download The Ballad in American Popular Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years, offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history. Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life in America.
Author | : William Wigglesworth Chamberlin |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368506110 |
Download An Extravaganza on the Ancient Ballad of Lord Bateman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
Author | : Joseph Ritson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Scottish Songs and Ballads. Collected and edited by J. Ritson. New and revised edition, with glossary and index. [With illustrations.] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Roy Mackenzie |
Publisher | : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : |
Download The Quest of the Ballad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mandy Anstine |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1434326918 |
Download The Ballad Untold Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Harmony Rae... With her long, blonde hair, body made for sin, and the voice of a mythical siren; Harmony is the epitome of a ROCK STAR. The mother of two beautiful sons, the wife of a supportive, handsome man. It would seem that the world is her's for the taking...that is until her past comes crashing back in the form of a brooding, sexy ROCK STAR... Adrian Gillette... Leaving the love of his life behind to become a ROCK GOD...he can't take watching Harmony from a far anymore. So moving back to The City of Angels, he plans to win back her heart...and to finally find out what's hiding behind her eyes...
Author | : Scott B. Spencer |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0810881551 |
Download The Ballad Collectors of North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century. However, there is scant information on those individuals responsible for gathering these songs. The Ballad Collectors of North America: How Gathering Folksongs Transformed Academic Thought and American Identity fills this gap, documenting the efforts of those who transcribed and recorded North American folk songs. Both biographical and topical, this book chronicles not only the most influential of these "song catchers" but also examines the main schools of thought on the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects that they shaped. Contributors also consider the role of technology--especially the phonograph--in the collection efforts. Chapters organized by region cover such areas as Appalachia, the West, and Canada, while others devoted to specialized topics from the cowboy tune and occupational song to the commercialization of folk music through song collections and anthologies. Ballad Collectors investigates the larger role of the ballad in the development of American identity, from the national appreciation of cowboy songs in popular culture to the use of Appalachian song forms in radio broadcasts to the role of dustbowl ballads in the urban folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Finally, this collection assesses the changing role of songs and song texts in the academic fields of folklore, anthropology, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Scholars and students of American cultural and social history, as well as fans of North American folk and popular music, will find The Ballad Collectors of North America a fascinating story of how the American folk tradition gained greater visibility, fueling the revolutions that would follow in the writing and performance of American music.