The British traditional ballad in North America / by Tristram Potter Coffin ; with a supplement by Roger deV. Renwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012, author.

Contributor:

Renwick, Roger deV., 1941- contributor.

Renwick, Funder.

Series:

Publications of the American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism.

Ballads, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas Press, 1977.

Summary:

Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the Revised Edition

A Description of Variation in the Traditional Ballad of America

A Bibliographical Guide to Story Variation in the Traditional Ballad in America

The Traditional Ballad as an Art Form

General Bibliography of Titles Abbreviated in the Study of Story Variation

Index to Ballads Discussed

A Supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America

Preface

A Note on Variation in the British Traditional Ballad in North America

A Bibliographical Guide to Story Variation in the British Traditional Ballad in North America

Bibliography

Discography

Index to Standard Titles of Ballads and Songs

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292735019

0292735014

OCLC:

1022783316