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  1. Street ballads in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America
    the interface between print and oral traditions
    Contributor: Atkinson, David (Publisher); Roud, Stephen (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ashgate Publishing Company, Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Atkinson, David (Publisher); Roud, Stephen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472427427; 1472427424; 9781472427410; 1472427416; 9781472427434
    Subjects: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Ballads, English; Oral tradition; Street literature; Geschichte; Array; Moritat
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    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

    In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature'. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers. This volume engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature's interaction with and influence on oral traditions