The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts

by Atkinson, David

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"This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writ…

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  • Full title :The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts / David Atkinson.

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"This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship."--Site web de l'éditeur.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Open Book Publishers
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (228 p.)

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn908748011
  • LC Classification:PR507
  • Dewey Decimal:821.04

Table of Contents

Preface -- 1. Where is the ballad? -- 2. On the nature of evidence -- 3. Textual authority and the sources of variance -- 4. The material ballad -- 5. Sound and writing -- 6. Agency, intention, and the problem of version (with a brief history of ballad editing) -- 7. Palimpsest or texte génétique -- 8. Afterword: 'All her friends cried out for shame'.

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Subjects

Ballades anglaises -- Histoire et criti… Ballads, English Ballads, English -- History and critici… Ballads, Scots Ballads, Scots -- History and criticism… Criticism, interpretation, etc England Livres électroniques Scotland

Writers

Atkinson, David

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