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Books on: ballad tradition

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The Ballad of Tradition

Book by Gordon Hall Gerould; Clarendon Press, 1932

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History and criticism, Ballads--History and criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...call nowadays the popular or traditional ballad; it is still harder to find...transmission, nor is any song a traditional ballad, whatever its origin and content...Gavin Greig Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs, 1925, pp...
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Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change

Book by David Brown; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Bible--Evidences, Authority, Etc, Revelation, Tradition (Theology)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Tradition and revelation are often regarded as polar opposites: tradition is identified with the dead hand of the past, and revelation is seen as given definitively once and for all. Through detailed examination of some key biblical narratives, this book argues that postcanonical traditions have not ...
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Tradition and revelation are often regarded as polar opposites: tradition is identified with the dead hand of the past, and revelation is seen as given definitively once and for all. Through detailed examination of some key biblical narratives, this book argues that postcanonical traditions have not only sometimes functioned as imaginative enrichments of religious belief, they can also at times lay claim to the title of revelation.
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The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures

Book by Philip E. Bennett, Richard Firth Green; Ropopi, 2004

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History And Criticism, Ballads--Europe--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and the Scribe European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures...and the Scribe European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures...French, Greek, Norse and Russian ballad traditions. A central problem for all...
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The British Literary Ballad: A Study in Poetic Imitation

Book by G. Malcolm Laws Jr.; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972

Subjects:

Ballads, English--Great Britain--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the folk ballads or popular ballads, traditional narrative songs carried in...very existence to the great ballad tradition which has flourished in the...arbitrarily divided into popular or traditional balladry balladry of the folk and...
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The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story

Book by John Anthony Scott; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Subjects:

Ballads, English--United States, Ballads, English--United States--History And Criticism, Folk Music--United States--History And Criticism, Folk Songs, English--United States, Folk Songs, English--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The first colonists sang the traditional ballads and songs from memory and...between the "pure" art of the traditional ballads of the type of "Bawbee Allen...process. It is a good example of traditional ballad form, and the melody slightly...

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Journal Articles on: ballad tradition

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The Feminine Voice in the Romancero's Modern Oral Tradition: Gender Differences in the Recitation of the Ballad la Bastarda Y El Segador

Journal article by Beatriz Gomez Acuna; Folklore, Vol. 113, 2002

Subjects:

Ballads--Analysis, Oral tradition--Research, Romance fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Romance literature, Seduction--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Influence, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in the modern oral tradition of Hispanic balladry, the romancero. This...romances de ciego (ballads of the blind). Traditional romances preserved...inscribed in the ballads: "In several centuries of traditional life, womens voices...
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The English Traditional Ballad. Theory, Method and Practice

Journal article by Ian A. Olson; Folklore, Vol. 115, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The English Traditional Ballad. Theory, Method and Practice (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

The English Traditional Ballad. Theory, Method and Practice...Ian A. Olson The English Traditional Ballad. Theory, Method and Practice...in the geographical sense) traditional balladry to analyse. So why did he try...
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Bender, Mark. Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition

Journal article by Vibeke Bordahl; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 63, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Chinas Suzhou Chantefable Tradition. Champaign, IL: University...Bamboo" refers to an opening ballad, kaipian TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...especially the tanci (chantefable) tradition, and that the study may contribute...message. In the chantefable tradition, song and music are of course...
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Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition

Journal article by Charlotte H. Beck; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2000

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...finds other suggestions of Warrens grounding in the Romantic tradition, while her reading of the much-analyzed "Original Sin" makes...with primal, ineffable guilt. Corrigans next chapter, "The Ballad of Billie Potts and Brother to Dragons," points out how Warrens...
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Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition

Journal article by Kevin Gilmartin; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 40, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...become the interpretive register of a "communitarian lyric" tradition, which Janowitz finds embodied less in specific texts or generic...individual subject comes to reinhabit the external structure of ballads and customary popular poetics" (24). The book is full of shrewd...

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Magazine Articles on: ballad tradition

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The Ballad in the Street: Listening for the Muffled Strains of a National Culture

Magazine article by Alan Trachtenberg; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Ballads--Social aspects, Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: Entire Library

...industrialization; culture came to stand for communal traditions and patterns of behavior and feeling...the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat...it in such a way cannot but jolt the tradition in which the name America was once considered...
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Killing Women: A Pop-Music Tradition

Magazine article by John Hamerlinck; The Humanist, Vol. 55, July 1995

Subjects:

Abused women--Portrayals, Popular music--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Killing Women: A Pop-Music Tradition. by John Hamerlinck...folk genre known as the "murder ballad." And as long as men have sung the...features premeditation along the traditional blues lines. It also incorporates...
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Dylan and Tradition

Magazine article by Martha Bayles; National Review, Vol. 53, August 20, 2001

Subjects:

Dylan, Bob--Works, Folk music--Works, Music, Musicians--Influence, Radicalism, Radicalism--Songs and music, Rock music--Works, Singers--Political activity, United States history--Portrayals

Collections: Entire Library

Dylan and Tradition. by MARTHA BAYLES To greybeards nostalgic for their granola...to hear the young Dylans nasal, monotonous voice sing a spare, elegant ballad like "It Aint Me Babe," "Dont Think Twice, Its All Right," or "Tomorrow...
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Fairy Tales Old Wives and Printing Presses: Ruth Bottigheimer Argues That the Survival of Our Best-Loved Fairy Tales Owes More to Popular Print Tradition Than to Fireside Story-Telling Passed Down through the Generations

Magazine article by Ruth Bottigheimer; History Today, Vol. 54, January 2004

Subjects:

Fairy tales--Analysis, Fairy tales--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...absent from bibliographies in the past: ballad-bearing broadsheets, single tales from...recent attempts to highlight the literary tradition, such as Maren ClausenStolzenburgs Marchen...Literaturtradition (Fairy Tales and Medieval Literary Tradition, 1994) have received little attention...
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Songs of Love, Women, and Children

Magazine article by Mark Holston; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 51, March 1999

Subjects:

Latin America--Music, Music, Latin-American--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...evolution of the venerable ballad tradition from country to country...medida," a contemporary ballad by Venezuelas Ilan Chester...the European cabaret tradition with the tangos unabashed...recent recordings of traditional Andean music, staying...

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Newspaper Articles on: ballad tradition

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'Ballad' No Ode to Utopia; Usually Absorbed Day-Lewis Detached from New Character

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 31, 2005

Subjects:

Day-Lewis, Daniel

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...evolved, with his scientific mentality, I started looking at earth houses, a tradition that goes all the way back to Scotland," she said. The subtext of "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" - the thing that ultimately brings Jack low as he battles with...
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CD REVIEWS AND MUSIC: WE WILL REMEMBER THEM; by Marking the Death of Her Friend Tyrone in Song, Beverley Knight Joins a Long, Honourable Tradition of Musical Commemoration

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 18, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Diana. He also created the magnificent, largely wordless, ballad Song For Guy. Its one of Eltons most tearful melodies, dedicated...Gregs body back to his Wangunani hometown and attended the traditional three-day Maori wake. They later wrote One Tree Hill for him...
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Chieftains Break with Tradition as Paddy Signs the Golden Girls; FEMALE ARTISTS GUEST ON SINGER'S; LATEST ALBUM WHICH WAS 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 7, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...unprecedented among Irish traditional musicians. In recent years...some of his favourite Irish ballads. Joni Mitchell, Mary Chapin...produced an album with the famous ballad singer Dolly McMahon. "I...my family was involved in traditional music. My most enduring memories...
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Three Give Tradition a Nudge

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 5, 2006

Subjects:

Folk music

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...performers stretching to reach new places within the parameters of traditional music. Jim VanCleve, "No Apologies" Jim VanCleve plays fiddle...Ms. Issacs, lush strings and piano, this beautiful country ballad is sandwiched between Bill Monroes grassy instrumental, "Wheel...
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Aristocratic Dining, Peasant Pleasantness: Russian Tradition of Great Hospitality Has Herndon Home

Newspaper article by Allison Young; The Washington Times, August 8, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...shallots and the faint aroma of tarragon. True to Slavic tradition, the plates were ample. We also recommend the beef pelmeni...cuisine and style of service. Now, when we hear the Beatles ballad "In My Life," it is bound to bring back tranquil memories of...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ballad tradition

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Middle English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...animal fable; and the dream vision. The continental allegorical tradition, which derived from classical literature, is exemplified by...continued popular in the 15th cent., from which time the ballad also dates. The Fourteenth Century The poetry of the...
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Schubert, Franz Peter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...symphonic works represent the best legacy of the classical tradition, while his songs exemplify the height of romantic lyricism...individual lyrics, such as the famous Erlkonig, set to a ballad by Goethe, Schubert wrote such song cycles as Die schone Mullerin...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Rameau followed the tradition established by Lully...inaugurated the form of ballad opera that satirized...Eighteenth Century The ballad opera eventually...In the romantic tradition, he turned to medieval...have composed in traditional musical idiom, such...reflected in Moores The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956...
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Gaelic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...imagery, color, and detail. The Fenian tradition, which became prominent in the late Middle...characteristic form of this cycle is the ballad . Its ideal hero is Finn, the Irish counterpart...priests, became guardians of the native tradition, and, after the coming of the Norman...
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Romanticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in extreme form. The host of lesser artists of the romantic tradition included the French Gericault , the Swiss-English Henry...flexible in structure, e.g., prelude, intermezzo, nocturne, ballad, and cappriccio, especially in solo music for the piano. Another...

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