The Anglo-American ballad : a folklore casebook / edited by Dianne Dugaw.
| Other author | Dugaw, Dianne, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Garland Publishing, 1995. |
| Description | xxii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1858 Garland folklore casebooks ; vol. 8 Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1858. ^A654521 Garland folklore casebooks ; v. 8. ^A277901 |
| Contents | Popular songs and the image of a nation: the spectator papers on ballads (numbers 70 and 85) (1711) / Joseph Addison -- Heroic bards and the "Romantic wildness" of an Anglo-Saxon past: on ancient minstrels (1794) / Thomas Percy -- Countering mythic claims: the origin and progress of national song (1783) / Joseph Ritson -- Balladry as a childhood for national genius: popular poetry (1830) / Walter Scott -- The concept of orality and the collector of "tradition": minstrelsy ancient and modern (1827) / William Motherwell -- The ballad community as an egalitarian, pastoral ideal: ballad poetry (1875) / Francis James Child -- Orality, primitivism, and an improvising folk community: the ballad and communal poetry (1897) / Francis B. Gummere -- Real singers, individual authorship, and diverse ballads: ballads and the illiterate (1921) / Louise Pound -- Archaism and "communal re-creation" in ballad tunes: the music of the ballads (1929) / Phillips Barry. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and index. |
| LCCN | 94024348 |
| ISBN | 0815317476 |
| ISBN | 9780815317470 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3553 .A64 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |