A Book of Old English Ballads
Author : George Wharton Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Ballads
ISBN :
A Book of Ballads, Old and New
Author : Guido Hermann Stempel
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Book Description
The Book of Ballads and Sagas #3
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Book Description
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 048631992X
Book Description
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Unprepared To Die
Author : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 099294807X
Book Description
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Murder Ballads
Author : David John Brennan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure--the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one's own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?
Old English Ballads
Author : Francis Barton Gummere
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Book Description
The Ballad of Laurel Springs
Author : Janet Beard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982151579
Book Description
"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Author : Suzanne Collins
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338635182
Book Description
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783740272
Book Description
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.
