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Author Atkinson, David, 1955 February 23- author.

Title The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts / David Atkinson.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK : Open Books Publishers, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.
Contents Preface -- 1. Where is the ballad? -- 2. On the nature of evidence -- 3. Textual authority and the sources of variance -- 4. The material ballad -- 5. Sound and writing -- 6. Agency, intention, and the problem of version (with a brief history of ballad editing) -- 7. Palimpsest or texte génétique -- 8. Afterword: 'All her friends cried out for shame'.
Summary "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."--Publisher's website
Note Viewed on 2020-04-03.
Language English.
Awards Winner of the 2014 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.
Subject Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Ballads, Scots -- History and criticism.
Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism.
Ballades anglaises -- Angleterre -- Histoire et critique.
Ballades anglaises -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots
England
Great Britain
Indexed Term ballads.
oral transmission.
textual scholarship.
ballad studies.
folk songs.
critique gique.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Standard No. 10.11647/OBP.0041 doi
AU@ 000058393017
DEBBG BV044056266
DEBSZ 493152075
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999911514505765
GBVCP 827335199
NZ1 15967929

 
    
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