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The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts
Title
The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts [electronic resource] / David Atkinson.
ISBN
9781783740291
9781783740307
9781783740314
9781783740277 (Paperback)
9781783740284 (Hardback)
Publication
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 209 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles.
Notes
Winner of the 2014 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.
Access and use
Unrestricted online access.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
Summary
"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."--Publisher's website.
Variant and related titles
Open book publishers.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliography and index.
Contents
References and Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
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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Index.
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