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Title:

Street ballads in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America : the interface between print and oral traditions / edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.

Publisher:

Ashgate Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Ballads, English--England--History and criticism.
Ballads, English--Ireland--History and criticism.
Ballads, English--North America--History and criticism.
Street literature--England--History and criticism.
Street literature--Ireland--History and criticism.
Street literature--North America--History and criticism.
Oral tradition--England--History--19th century.
Oral tradition--Ireland--History--19th century.
Oral tradition--North America--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Atkinson, David, editor of compilation.
Roud, Stephen, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Steve Roud -- Was there really a "mass extinction of old ballads" in the Romantic period? / David Atkinson -- Birmingham broadsides and oral tradition / Roy Palmer -- The Newcastle song chapbooks / Peter Wood -- Forgotten broadsides and the song tradition of Scots travellers / Chris Wright -- Welsh balladry and literacy / Ffion Mair Jones -- Ballads and ballad singers: Samuel Lover's tour of Dublin in 1830 / John Moulden -- Henry J. Wehman and cheap print in late nineteenth-century America / Norm Cohen -- "I'd have you to buy it and learn it": Sabine Baring-Gould, his fellow collectors, and street literature / Martin Graebe -- The popular ballad and the book trade: "Bateman's tragedy" versus "The demon lover" / David Atkinson -- Mediating Maria Marten: comparative and contextual studies of the red barn ballads / Thomas Pettitt -- "Old Brown's daughter": re-contextualizing a "locally" composed Newfoundland folk song / Anna Kearney Guigné.

ISBN:

1472427416 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472427410 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)872653811

LCCN:

2014001012

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)