Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions
- Author: Atkinson, David
- Author: Roud, Steve
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Contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Was There Really a ‘Mass Extinction of Old Ballads' in the Romantic Period?
- 3: Birmingham Broadsides and Oral Tradition
- 4: The Newcastle Song Chapbooks
- 5: Forgotten Broadsides and the Song Tradition of the Scots Travellers
- 6: Welsh Balladry and Literacy
- 7: Ballads and Ballad Singers: Samuel Lover's Tour of Dublin in 1830
- 8: Henry J. Wehman and Cheap Print in Late Nineteenth-Century America
- 9: ‘I'd have you to buy it and learn it': Sabine Baring-Gould, his Fellow Collectors, and Street Literature
- 10: The Popular Ballad and the Book Trade: ‘Bateman's Tragedy' versus ‘The Demon Lover’
- 11: Mediating Maria Marten: Comparative and Contextual Studies of the Red Barn Ballads
- 12: ‘Old Brown's Daughter': Re-contextualizing a ‘Locally’ Composed Newfoundland Folk Song