Title The Anglo-American ballad : a folklore casebook / edited by Dianne Dugaw

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge library editions. Folk music ; volume 3 Routledge library editions. Folk music ; volume 3. Contents Popular songs and the image of a nation -- Heroic bards and the "romantic wildness" of an Anglo-Saxon past -- Countering mythic claims -- Balladry as a childhood for national genius -- The concept of orality and the collector of "Tradition" -- The ballad community as an egalitarian, pastoral ideal -- Orality, primitivism, and an improvising folk community -- Real singers, individual authorship, and diverse ballads -- Archaism and "communal re-creation" in ballad tunes -- Families of tunes and the tenacity of tradition -- Ballad music as an heirloom of British culture -- Variation and continuity in ballads present -- Class politics and the producers and production of songs -- Orality and teh formulaic composition of ballads -- Creativity, community, and the individual songmaker -- People and their songs as diverse phenomena -- Tradition, literacy, and the ballad marketplace -- Performance, audience, social conditions, and tradition -- Blues ballads and the syncretism of Anglo and African traditions Notes Originally published in 1995 by Garland Publishing, Inc Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism Folk music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Ballads, English -- United States -- History and criticism Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Literature and folklore -- English-speaking countries MUSIC -- History & Criticism. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional. Ballads, English Folk music Literature and folklore English-speaking countries Great Britain United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Dugaw, Dianne, editor. ISBN 9781317357797 1317357795 9781315667331 1315667339 9781317357803 1317357809 9781317357780 1317357787 9781138122314 1138122319

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