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ballad
ballad (Lat. ballare, to dance) Form of popular poetry which is regularly sung, narrative in style with simple metre, rhyme, and often a refrain. The first surviving examples date from medieval times, and typically consist of four-line stanzas. The ballad was a vital means of perpetuating community myth, the traditions of storytelling, and the celebration of rites. Notable later examples include
Lyrical Ballads (1798), written by William
Wordsworth in collaboration with Samuel
Coleridge. The late-18th century revival of the ballad was central to the rise of
Romanticism. It was also used by
Swinburne, Sir Walter
Scott, and Rudyard
Kipling.
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Ballads into books: the legacies of Francis James Child.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...International Ballad Conference. The core matter of Ballads into Books consists...Scottish Popular Ballads (ESPB). A second...the pre-Child ballad data bank, Mary...category of essays in Ballads into Books reflects...understandably dominates ballad scholarship...
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The Ballad in Scottish History
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of essays on ballads and Scottish history...celebrate one of the great ballad collectors', namely...Making History from Ballad Texts', Charles Duffin...in admitting that the ballads cannot be read simply...historical 'truths' in the ballad texts we are more often...
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The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, Method, and Practice.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discography, index of ballads and songs, index...expressed by scholars of ballad studies was that...During this time ballad scholars were generally...Comparativists looked at the ballads and their variants...the meanings of the ballads. David Atkinson...English Traditional Ballad: ...
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Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd.: Peruvian Silver-Copper-Zinc Properties to be Acquired.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 3/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd. (TSX VENTURE...acquisition and exploration program in Peru. Ballad is pleased to announce it has entered...mineralization has been identified and sampled. Ballad has the right, following a 90 day due...
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Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd. and Auterra Ventures Inc.: Ballad to Explore Rabbit North Copper/Gold Project Near Afton & Highland Valley Copper Mines.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 1/28/2004; 700+ words
; ...Jan 28, 2004 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) Ballad Gold & Silver (TSXV-BGS) and...TSXV-AUW) are pleased to announce Ballad's agreement to participate in the Rabbit...are expected to be released next week. Ballad is now mobilizing exploration crews to...
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Américo Paredes: Ballad Scholar (Phillips Barry Lecture, 2004)
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The ballad scholarship of Amrico Paredes (1915...With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and its Hero, has been overlooked as a...overlooked as a central contribution to ballad scholarship. Possibly more than other...
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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...range of authors, of the ballad as a popular form, and...transformations of the ballad that appear in their...topic is not so much ballads themselves as the use...conducted over the body of ballads. In truth these negotiations...tartly remarks, the ballad revival led not to the...
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Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd.: Peruvian Silver-Copper-Zinc Properties to be Acquired
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...CCNMatthews - March 8, 2006) - Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:BGS...acquisition and exploration program in Peru. Ballad is pleased to announce it has entered...mineralization has been identified and sampled. Ballad has the right, following a 90 day due...
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Placed, Replaced, or Misplaced?: The Ballads' Progress
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...familiar with the ballad as genre, with the...collection, and with the ballads' medieval affinity...supposition of the ballads' medieval location...histories of the ballad as well as the definitional...George Wilson, places ballads under the Renaissance...and Representative ...
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Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...scholars of the period. But ballads were a crucial cultural...famously wrote about ballads in three Spectator papers...the beauties of "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" and...transmission and back again. A ballad might be learned by ear...printed the texts of ballads with the title of the...
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Ballads
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BALLADS BALLADS. A ballad is a short narrative set to song. A folk ballad is generally...the most popular of indigenous types are the occupational ballads, the bad-man ballad, the murder ballad, and the vulgar or bawdy ballad. As...
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ballad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...19th-century ballad scholarship. More...and Scottish folk ballads, dating from the...wrote their own ballads. The Literary Ballad The literary ballad...Bronson, The Ballad as Song (1969...Oxford Book of Ballads (1982); A...
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ballads
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
ballads. Defining a ballad is difficult, since it is an...movement. But by this time ballads were of great variety—...deplored the vulgarization of ballads when he remarked in 1802 that a ballad was ‘a mean and trifling...
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Ballad
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ballad, narrative poem of...literary influences. Folk ballads frequently deal with...Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934...adaptations of the ballad form are Longfellow...Hay's Pike County Ballads, Whittier's Skipper...
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Bab Ballads
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bab Ballads, a collection of humorous ballads by W. S. Gilbert , first published in Fun , 1866–71. They appeared in volume form as Bab Ballads (1869); More Bab Ballads (1873); Fifty Bab Ballads (1877).
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