📢#OutNow in #OA: '#CheapPrint and #StreetLiterature of the #LongEighteenthCentury', edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the #eighteenthcentury trade in #streetliterature – #ballads, #chapbooks, and #popularprints – in England and Scotland.
Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into #ballads, #slipsongs, #storybooks, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high #literature.
It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century #popularculture and #literature, #print #history and the #booktrade, #ballad and #folk studies, children’s literature, and #socialhistory.
This #OpenAccess title is avalable at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347
#outnow #oa #cheapprint #streetliterature #longeighteenthcentury #EighteenthCentury #ballads #chapbooks #popularprints #slipsongs #storybooks #literature #popularculture #print #history #booktrade #ballad #folk #socialhistory #openaccess
Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.
A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison KInder: bass #viol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-M&ab_channel=Passamezzo
#earlymusic #earlymodern #richardiii #bosworth #histodon #histodons #tudor #tudors #warsoftheroses #otd #onthisdayinhistory #henryvii @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons @histodon
#ballads #balladmiscellany #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #history
#OnThisDay #soprano #baritone #lute #viol #earlymusic #earlymodern #richardiii #bosworth #histodon #histodons #Tudor #tudors #WarsOfTheRoses #otd #onthisdayinhistory #henryvii #ballads #balladmiscellany #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #history
Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…
“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”
“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong
8/8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk
#folksong #ballads #19thcentury #romanticism #walterscott #literature #scottish
Playing for the Man at the Door review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/04/playing-for-the-man-at-the-dooor-smithsonian-folkways
'This invigorating 66-song set of broadside ballads, blues, spirituals and other field recordings from the mid-20th century American south comes with a telling title. It reveals the power dynamics at play when songs performed by African Americans were taped by white male folk collectors. The extensive archives of folklorist Mack McCormick were also selective: he called his subjects “tribal people”, as they lacked middle-class aspirations, and the recordings are also largely of men.'
#MusicTips #MusicFriday #folk #music #Smithsonian #compilation #blues #spirituals #ballads
#musictips #musicfriday #folk #Music #smithsonian #compilation #blues #spirituals #ballads
Enjoying this verse from the Scottish murder ballad 'Jellon Grame'
My eyes are seething in my head,
My flesh roasting also
My bowels are boiling with my blood
Is that no a woeful woe?
We just don't write or name ballads like we used to.
#ballads #broadsides #murderballads #scotland
Spent a fair while trying to work out why a 19th century slip ballad would refer to a cannibal, and then realised they mean Hannibal and suddenly it all made (a bit more) sense.
Jazztodon artist of the week: Portuguese jazz singer Maija! According to the #washingtonpost, "Maija isn't the sort of singer who tries to sell a song with a smiley face and an abundance of enthusiasm. She's more apt to inhabit a lyric than peddle it. Save for an occasional melismatic wrinkle, she scats nimbly and swings easily, yet her real strength lies in her thoughtful approach to ballads, which she sings in English, Spanish and Portuguese with often haunting results."
#washingtonpost #jazz #maija #ballads
Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders has written many great ballads over the years, I went through The Pretenders discography and picked my favorite 25(!) that she's either written on her own or co-written and put them in Apple Music (below) and Spotify (in the reply) playlists https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/chrissie-hyndes-best-pretenders-ballads/pl.u-526bKT6zqzP #music #ChrissieHynde #ThePretenders #ballads
#ballads #thepretenders #chrissiehynde #Music
Good Sundays to everyone!
The 8th episode of “This Is What It Sounds Like In My Studio” is out on #SoundCloud Mostly #synth based #avantgardejazz with some #ballads and #electronica. Featuring tracks from:
David Axelrod
Ben Webster
Lorez Alexandria
Les McCann
Ilhan Ersahin
George Duke
Archie Shepp
Jasper Van’t Hof
Shuggie Otis
Underworld
Brenda Lee
#Weekend #gorgeous #electronica #ballads #avantgardejazz #synth #SoundCloud
St George for England
#17thCentury #songs for #SaintGeorge and his day
https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/st-george-for-england/
#saintgeorgesday
#stgeorgeandthedragon
#saintgeorgeandthedragon
#stgeorgesday
#earlymusic
#ballads
#history
#musicpublishing
#sheetmusic
#song #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @earlymusic @earlymodern
#17thcentury #songs #saintgeorge #saintgeorgesday #stgeorgeandthedragon #saintgeorgeandthedragon #stgeorgesday #earlymusic #ballads #history #musicpublishing #sheetmusic #song #histodon #histodons
From Robert Chambers’ The Book of Days:
“It was very appropriate that Mr Surtees should be born on the first of April, as he was the perpetrator of one of the most dexterous literary impostures of modern times…”
For #AprilFoolsDay: how “an old Border ballad” was invented & sent to #WalterScott
#Scottish #literature #Ballads #fake #19thCentury
https://www.thebookofdays.com/months/april/1.htm
#19thcentury #fake #ballads #literature #scottish #walterscott #aprilfoolsday
Here’s today’s episode of Thank Goodness it’s Folk! Including a deep dive into Child Ballad #84, Barbara Allen, and a chat with the lovely and brilliant Sean Cooney about what the Young’uns are up to. Have a listen! #folk #folkradio #ballads https://www.mixcloud.com/Jimbobfagan/tgif-310323-barbara-allen-the-younguns/
My #newbook is here at last!
Here Comes My Lord Mayor - #17thCentury songs for the Lord Mayor's Show.
A selection of #ballads and #songs illustrating the sights and sounds of in Lord Mayor’s Triumph in #earlymodern #London. They describe a range of events including a magnificent #procession, #music and #pageants on the #Thames and in the City, a great #feast, crowds of people, and lots of #fireworks…
https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/here-comes-my-lord-mayor/
#lordmayorsshow
#lordmayoroflondon
#history
#londonhistory
#lordmayor
#seventeenthcentury
#earlymusic
#sheetmusic
#publishing
#book
#histodon
#histodon
#historyoflondon
@histodon
@histodons
@earlymusic
@earlymodern
#newbook #17thcentury #ballads #songs #earlymodern #london #procession #music #pageants #thames #feast #fireworks #lordmayorsshow #lordmayoroflondon #history #londonHistory #lordmayor #seventeenthcentury #earlymusic #sheetmusic #publishing #book #histodon #historyoflondon
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The most famous line associated with it - "Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower came" - may not even belong to the same story, as it's from King Lear, where it's given no context (although presumably refers to an existing legend in Shakespeare's day).
The most famous version of the story was published by Joseph Jacobs in "English Fairy Tales" (1890). However the earliest written version (and Jacobs's source) comes from Scotland in 1814, written down by antiquarian Robert Jamieson, who heard it as a child. Jamieson tied it to #Arthurian myth by making the siblings children of Arthur and Guinevere. He also mentioned the city of Carlisle as a setting, making this firmly a story of the borderlands, at least in Jamieson's version. There are also versions in Northumberland that link it to Bamburgh (Lancelot's Joyous Gard in local legend), and Merlin is said to haunt the Tweed valley.
The story bears resemblance to several Danish tales in existence by the 16th Century; however, some version of the story clearly already existed in England by 1606, when King Lear was published.
(Just to confuse things more, Robert Browning wrote a poem based on the Shakespeare line, which has no relation to the folktale, but which Jacobs drew on when he made the Elf King's home a 'Dark Tower'.)
I love the story more for its mystery and for its patched-together sources. That's what folklore's all about!
#MythologyMonday #folklore #northumberland #Scotland #ScottishLegend #Ballads #FolkTale
#arthurian #mythologymonday #folklore #northumberland #scotland #scottishlegend #ballads #folktale
@TheMetalDog
I agree. From rebellious #ShockRock to enduring #anthems to engaging story songs to touching #ballads, #AliceCooper has a lot of talent.
#shockrock #anthems #ballads #alicecooper
First Milestones & I’m #NowPlaying #Ballads by #JohnColtrane. This, I think, is one of my favourite albums by Coltrane. The line up is incredible, & the playing just so soulful & so sweet. Generally, I incline to the more melodic pieces & anything post A Love Supreme tends to lose me.
This reissue, by #AcousticSounds, is cut by #RyanKSmith &, as one would expect, is very well done. High quality jackets, immaculately pressing, & beautifully mastered.
#nowplaying #ballads #johncoltrane #acousticsounds #ryanksmith #nowlistening #vinylrecords #vinyl #jazz