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The shocking ballad picture show : German popular literature and cultural history / Tom Cheesman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheesman, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads, German--History and criticism.
- Ballads, German.
- Songs, German--History and criticism.
- Songs, German.
- Popular culture--Germany.
- Popular culture.
- Street literature--Germany--History and criticism.
- Street literature.
- Street musicians--Germany.
- Street musicians.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, U.K. ; Providence, R.I. : Berg Publishers, 1994.
- Summary:
- This study introduces anglophone readers to the ballad picture show, a cultural institution which anticipated both the cinema and the tabloid press. Through four centuries, itinerant ballad sellers staged outdoor performances in market places using painted picture-screens, presenting sensational stories of crimes, catastrophes and miracles which they sang and sold as cheap printed texts. The 'shocking ballad' is of major significance in German popular and literary culture. A form of literature for the barely literate which dramatizes collective anxieties and fantasies in German society from the Reformation to the Weimar Republic, it has fascinated poets from Goethe via Brecht to Biermann.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0854968938 :
- OCLC:
- 30030543
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