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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts (Hardcover)
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts (Hardcover)
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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.
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