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Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

Atkinson, David
Roud, Steve

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral SongbooksGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1472427416
ISBN13: 9781472427410
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 4 2014
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature' - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature's interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.

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