Traditional Ballads among the Portuguese in California: Part II

Joanne B. Purcell

doi:10.2307/1498505

The Ballad History of the Reigns of the Later Tudors

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.2307/3678274 ◽

1909 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 51-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C. H. Firth

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Word Of Mouth ◽

History Of ◽

Traditional Ballads

Ballads about events which happened during the reigns of the later Tudors are far more numerous than those which relate to the reigns of their predecessors. They fall naturally into three classes. There are a few traditional ballads, probably handed down by word of mouth, committed to writing much later, and generally not printed till the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The authors of these are unknown; in the shape in which we possess them they may be the work of more than one hand; in many cases it is certain that they have been pieced together and reshaped by modern editors.

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Place-Names in Traditional Ballads

Folklore ◽

10.1080/0015587x.1973.9716524 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 84 (4) ◽

pp. 299-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

W. F. H. Nicolaisen

Keyword(s):

Place Names ◽

Traditional Ballads

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The Original Robin Hood: Traditional Ballads and Plays Including All Medieval Sources by Thor Ewing

Arthuriana ◽

10.1353/art.2021.0028 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 86-88

Author(s):

Alexander L. Kaufman

Keyword(s):

Robin Hood ◽

Traditional Ballads

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Ballad Knowledge and the Poetics of Repetition

In Plain Sight ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198855521.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 109-140

Author(s):

Alexandra Socarides

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Women Poets ◽

Female Figure ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

Traditional Ballads ◽

And Gender

Chapter 3 explores a genre (the ballad) that was wildly popular in nineteenth-century America, and investigates the ways in which women poets entered into discussions about authorship, poetics, and gender through their engagements with it. Focusing in particular on tropes of faithlessness, pride, laziness, and general “badness” that had long marked traditional ballads, this chapter shows how these tropes came to be associated with women and how American periodicals seemed to embrace the circulation of such ballads. But as women poets took up this genre and were faced with how to rewrite this female figure, they pushed its primary convention—repetition—to its limits in order to make explicit the particular problem that accompanies the recitation of “ballad knowledge” for women. Instead of looking away from the scenes of repetition that disempower women, these ballads go right to the center, employing repetitions to new ends.

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Protest Songs from the Textile Mills and Coalfields

Writing Appalachia ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0026 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 176-180

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Coal Dust ◽

Coal Mines ◽

Folk Songs ◽

Southern Appalachians ◽

National Consciousness ◽

Textile Mills ◽

Protest Songs ◽

Traditional Ballads ◽

A Site

Protest songs have sustained strikers on picket lines, memorialized disasters, galvanized support for unions, sparked folk revivals, and established Appalachia in the national consciousness as a site of labor struggle. In Coal Dust on the Fiddle (1943), a collection of songs from the bituminous coal mines, George Korson explains that the folk songs of immigrant miners, traditional ballads of the Southern Appalachians, and African American spirituals combined in music that documented and commemorated life in the mines....

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