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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

...comprehensive history of the European ballad, nor to offer a complete...the development of the ballad as a text for reading...Greek, Norse and Russian ballad traditions. A central...for all who write about ballads is to arrive at a workable...
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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

...language of the traditional ballad in its better state. They...considerable, these American ballads are important because they...the processes by which the European ballad came to be what it was in...gifts, those who handed on ballads were trained singers, trained...
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Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-Out Rhymes

Book by David C. Rubin; Oxford University Press, 1995

Subjects:

Ballads--North Carolina--History And Criticism, Counting-Out Rhymes--History And Criticism, Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Memory, Oral Tradition

Collections: Education, Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

metrical form of the ballad or to add specificity to concrete...meaning or symbolism within the ballad genre; for example, a womans...combining the Hispanic and European ballad traditions, finds that details...the tone and expectations of ballads. As examples, she notes...
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Poetic Origins and the Ballad

Book by Louise Pound; The Macmillan Company, 1921

Subjects:

Ballads

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...alongside the hypotheses of ballad origin which have been brought...structure and type of the Child ballads. The patterns which these...of the type of the Child ballads. In the hypothesis that mediaeval ballad literature emerged under the...lyrical verse of other leading European peoples. The ballad documents...
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The Critics & the Ballad

Book by Macedward E. Leach, Tristram P. Coffin; Southern Illinois University Press, 1961

Subjects:

Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism, Folk songs, American--History and criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...what our folk consider a ballad to be and how it should...certain: to our folk a ballad is song, not poetry; for us ballads become poems because...measure up to Western European aesthetic standards.A ballad survives among our folk...

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Journal Articles on: european ballad

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The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures

Journal article by David Atkinson; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures (Book)--Book reviews

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...The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures. by David Atkinson...in the development of the ballad. This is necessarily played...Roderick Beatons account of Greek ballads and the (indirect) evidence...
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'Judas': The First English Ballad?

Journal article by Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou; Medium Aevum, Vol. 62, 1993

Subjects:

Ballads--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...C. Hodgart, The Ballads (London, 1962...and the problem of ballad origins, in The European Medieval Ballad: a...relations, in The European Medieval Ballad, ed. Holzapfel...development of the popular ballad in Britain is as follows...half the Robin Hood ballads and probably two historical...
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`The Ballad of St Stephen and Herod': Biblical History and Medieval Popular Religious Culture

Journal article by Thomas D. Hill; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001

Subjects:

Ballads--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kings and rulers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religious life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., St Stephen and Herod (Song)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, ed. Francis James Child (1883; repr...gathering and translation of some related European versions of the Stephen ballad, see European Folk Ballads, ed. Erich Seemann et al. (Copenhagen...
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The Last Quatrain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ends of Ballads

Journal article by Karen Jackson Ford; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 56, 2010

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Works, Ballads--Criticism and interpretation, Brooks, Gwendolyn--Criticism and interpretation, Brooks, Gwendolyn--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...although everything about the ballad itself and its status in African...consider it primarily an Anglo European form. No wonder she vacillated about the place of the ballad in her new work. Though ballads have always been composed...has come to characterize "ballad meter," and Brooks clearly...
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Traditional Ballad Verse in Australia

Journal article by Bill Scott; Folklore, Vol. 111, 2000

Subjects:

Australian poetry--History, Ballads--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

Traditional Ballad Verse in Australia. by Bill...transportees, the earliest European settlers in Australia, numbered...who had been familiar with ballads from their childhood. Stories...mostly composed in the ancient ballad metre, the "severer" so...and language most approached European cultural products; this continued...

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Magazine Articles on: european ballad

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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

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The Ballad in the Street: Listening for the Muffled...modern Americans have lost, what so many Europeans have established as the first principle...mean." "No intense nationalism of the European plan can be ours," he wrote, and proposed...
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Ballads of a Nation

Magazine article by Christopher Harvie; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999

Subjects:

Scotland--Politics and government, Scottish National Party--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...against the Scots and their European allies, the Papacy...expressed through the ballads and the `ideal types...which marked other European nations were in Scotland...pivot of the poem was The Ballad of the General Strike...arent `gude bairns, the ballad-makers of the nation...
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Chicago in a European Mood

Magazine article by Ann Barzel; Dance Magazine, Vol. 75, September 2001

Subjects:

Dancing--Reviews, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago--Performances

Collections: Entire Library

...programs had more than a hint of European-style contemporary dance...strains of that lovely old ballad, "Greensleeves." The costumes...has been influenced by the European style of contemporary dance...showed the influence of the European contemporary dance style...
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Up from the Mississippi Delta: The Brutal 1955 Murder of Emmett till, Which Helped Spark the Civil Rights Movement, Casts Long, Dark Shadows on Three New Theatre Works

Magazine article by Hancock Carl Rux; American Theatre, Vol. 25, September 2008

Subjects:

All Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Play), Civil rights activists--Portrayals, Civil rights workers--Portrayals, Murder--Portrayals, The Ballad of Emmett Till (Play), Till, Emmett--Portrayals

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...Theatre produced playwright Ifa Bayezas The Ballad of Emmett Till, directed by Oz Scott...Ifa Bayezas jazz-infused play The Ballad of Emmett Till was developed in the Goodmans...Movement. Over 10 years in the making, The Ballad of Emmett Till began as a one-act and...
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Revolution Number 9

Magazine article by Mark Greif; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, January 17, 2000

Subjects:

Political ballads and songs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rage Against the Machine (Music group)--Social aspects, Youth--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...bands 1996 album, communicated that radicalism in a way that was fierce, eloquent, and systematic. It started with the European colonization of the indigenous peoples of Mexico; rebuked Pentagon spending ("Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes...

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Newspaper Articles on: european ballad

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The Kick 18th Century Folk Got out of Ballads Is like YouTube Now; THE SINGING NEWSPAPERS OF YESTERYEAR JOIN DIGITAL AGE

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 9, 2010

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

...surrounding workers rights, bloody European revolutions and the pioneering...were in possession of 2,000 ballads each. The university also...audio recordings of authentic ballad performances online later...and archives, said: "The ballads are an exceptionally important...markets that took place, ballad singers went around with a...
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FILM Reds and Blues (the Ballad of Dixie & Kenny). ...

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 27, 2010

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

FILM Reds and Blues (the Ballad of Dixie Kenny). .... Byline: Luke...their tea-drinking ritual from gleaming European Cups. Kirby has called in some favours...Schofield and Ian St John in Reds Blues (The Ballad of Dixie Kenny)
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Review; REDS AND BLUES,THE BALLAD OF DIXIE AND KENNY Odeon, Liverpool One

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 27, 2010

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

Review; REDS AND BLUES,THE BALLAD OF DIXIE AND KENNY Odeon, Liverpool One. Byline: Luke Traynor...and wife Annie perform their tea-drinking ritual from gleaming European Cups. Kirby has called in some favours from Anfield and Goodison...
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Review; REDS AND BLUES,THE BALLAD OF DIXIE AND KENNY Odeon, Liverpool One

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 27, 2010

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

Review; REDS AND BLUES,THE BALLAD OF DIXIE AND KENNY Odeon, Liverpool One. Byline: Luke Traynor...and wife Annie perform their tea-drinking ritual from gleaming European Cups. Kirby has called in some favours from Anfield and Goodison...
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Brooding Balladeer Swaps Trademark Bleakness for the Feelgood Approach; Anguished Torch Songs and Macabre Murder Ballads. Think You Know Christopher Rees? Think Again. Gavin Allen Finds a Much Happier Camper Behind the Release of His Fourth Album

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 4, 2009

Subjects:

Recording industry, Sound recording industry, Trademarks

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

...Torch Songs and Macabre Murder Ballads. Think You Know Christopher...manager in New York and a European agent, he looks to have licensed...his musics focus on murder ballads for the past three years or...History Of American Murder Ballads" - his new album is a more...now moved out of his murder ballad phase and into some surprising...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: european ballad

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Calypso , in Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the traditional pre-Lenten carnival . Drawing mainly on both African and European sources, the music uses varieties of some 50 traditional melodies and employs a ballad form in either 2/4 or 4/4 time with syncopated phrasing. Orchestration...
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Folk Song

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...transplanting is the English ballad found in various parts of...American folk songs are of other European or African origin. Americans...a collection of English ballad texts, appeared in 1765...a major source on Scottish ballads. Bela Bartok did outstanding...Baez , and others. See also ballad ; chantey ; spiritual . See...
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Romanticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...from the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge s Lyrical Ballads (1798). In the preface to the second edition of that influential...nature and for Germanys medieval past. France and Other European Countries The credo of French romanticism was set forth by...in structure, e.g., prelude, intermezzo, nocturne, ballad, and cappriccio, especially in solo music for the piano...
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Old Norse Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...both saga and history antedates that of all other modern European literatures except Gaelic. In the later 13th cent., with...declined, new forms rose to replace it, among them the ballad and the sacred hymn. A new rhymed verse developed, somewhat...Finally, all the Scandinavian countries produced medieval ballads, but these were not written down until much later. There...
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Yugoslav Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...bard, Anora Kacic Miosic (1702 60), wrote his poems in ballad and folk style, while the moralist-philosopher Dositej Obradovic...and Romanticism The southern Slavs experienced the general European nationalist upsurge in the late 18th and early 19th cent...

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