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

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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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