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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132152703321

Autore

Atkinson David

Titolo

The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts / / David Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers

Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78374-030-2

2-8218-7635-1

1-78374-029-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

821.04

Soggetti

Ballads, English - England - History and criticism

Ballads, Scots - Scotland - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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'.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.