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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dugaw, Dianne.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music

Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk music--Great Britain--History and criticism.

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

Ballads, English.

Ballads, English--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Literature and folklore--English-speaking countries.

Literature and folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1995. This book's collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American scholarship's questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph Addison's discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves. The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and community as well as national genealogies and connections to contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on its importance and relevance.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Popular Songs and the Image of a Nation; The Spectator Papers on Ballads (Numbers 70 and 85) (1711); Heroic Bards and the ""Romantic Wildness"" of an Anglo-Saxon Past; On Ancient Minstrels (1794); Countering Mythic Claims; The Origin and Progress of National Song (1783); Balladry as a Childhood for National Genius; Popular Poetry (1830); The Concept of Orality and the Collector of ""Tradition""

Minstrelsy Ancient and Modem (1827)The Ballad Community As an Egalitarian, Pastoral Ideal; Ballad Poetry (1875); Orality, Primitivism, and an Improvising Folk Community; The Ballad and Communal Poetry (1897); Real Singers, Individual Authorship, and Diverse Ballads; Ballads and the Illiterate (1921); Archaism and ""Communal Re-creation"" in Ballad Tunes; The Music of the Ballads (1929); Families of Tunes and the Tenacity of Tradition; Ballad Tunes and Texts (1944); Ballad Music as an Heirloom of British Culture; Principal Melodic Families of British-American Folk Song (1950)

Variation and Continuity in Ballads Present and PastThe Comparative Approach (1986); Class Politics and the Producers and Production of Songs; Song and Social Context (1986); Orality and the Formulaic Composition of Ballads; Oral Tradition and Literary Tradition (1977); Creativity, Community, and the Individual Songmaker; My Name Is Larry Gorman (1964); People and Their Songs as Diverse Phenomena; Ballad Singers, Ballad Makers, and Ballad Etiology (1973); Tradition, Literacy, and the Ballad Marketplace; The Interface of Oral and Written Forms (1984)

Performance, Audience, Social Conditions, and TraditionThe Rise of the English Street Ballad (1990); Blues Ballads and the Syncretism of Anglo and African Traditions; Survivors of the Ballad Tradition (1984); Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1995 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-66733-9

1-317-35780-9

1-317-35779-5

9781315667331

OCLC:

958108259