Victorian Street Ballads
Author | : William Henderson (Writer on ballads) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Henderson (Writer on ballads) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Ashton |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781020837098 |
This book is an anthology of popular songs and ballads from the streets of 19th-century England. Compiled by John Ashton, a leading authority on English popular culture, the book offers a fascinating portrait of the people and events that captured the public's imagination in Victorian England. From tales of love and adventure to political satire and social commentary, the ballads in this collection provide a vivid window into the popular culture of their time. 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.
Author | : Oskar Cox Jensen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108830560 |
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
Author | : John Ashton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Henderson (Writer on ballads) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. David Gregory |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2006-04-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1461674174 |
Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.
Author | : Oskar Cox Jensen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108903665 |
For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
Author | : Alfred Mason Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Folk songs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold James Dyos |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415193238 |
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Author | : Linda K. Hughes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521856248 |
An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.