Street ballads in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America : the interface between print and oral traditions /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Atkinson, David (Editor), Roud, Stephen (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.
Subjects:	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. 1800 - 1899 Electronic books.
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Table of 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.