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

Publication Info. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Routledge library editions. Folk music ; volume 3
Routledge library editions. Folk music ; volume 3.
Note Originally published in 1995 by Garland Publishing, Inc.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Popular songs and the image of a nation -- Heroic bards and the "romantic wildness" of an Anglo-Saxon past -- Countering mythic claims -- Balladry as a childhood for national genius -- The concept of orality and the collector of "Tradition" -- The ballad community as an egalitarian, pastoral ideal -- Orality, primitivism, and an improvising folk community -- Real singers, individual authorship, and diverse ballads -- Archaism and "communal re-creation" in ballad tunes -- Families of tunes and the tenacity of tradition -- Ballad music as an heirloom of British culture -- Variation and continuity in ballads present -- Class politics and the producers and production of songs -- Orality and teh formulaic composition of ballads -- Creativity, community, and the individual songmaker -- People and their songs as diverse phenomena -- Tradition, literacy, and the ballad marketplace -- Performance, audience, social conditions, and tradition -- Blues ballads and the syncretism of Anglo and African traditions.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Folk music.
United States.
Folk music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Great Britain.
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.
English-speaking countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Dugaw, Dianne, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Anglo-American ballad. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016 9781138951600 1138951609 (OCoLC)910093169
ISBN 9781317357797 (electronic book)
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