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Subject Area: Music, Literary Criticism Publication Name: Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America : The Interface Between Print and Oral Traditions Item Width: 6.1 in ISBN: 9781138269477 Publisher: Routledge Format: Trade Paperback Subject: Comparative Literature, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, General, Printed Music / Piano-Vocal-Guitar, Ethnic Author: Steve Roud, David Atkinson Item Weight: 16 Oz Type: Textbook Language: English Publication Year: 2016 Book Title: Street Ballads in Nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North width: 6.1 in Item Length: 9.2 in Number of Pages: 306 Pages

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Street Ballads in Nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America : Th.... Street Ballads in Nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and North America : The Interface Between Print and Oral Traditions, Paperback by Atkinson, David; Roud, Steve, ISBN 1138269476, ISBN-13 9781138269477, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.

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