Street Ballads?

Subject: Street Ballads?
From: GUEST,peg
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 06:27 PM

would like to hear from any who know about such things on how these are defined, what sorts of songs they are, and good sources of them (recordings, books etc.)??? I am guessing they are mostly 19th century, English stuff.
many thanks,
Peg

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 09:08 PM

Do you mean the sheets that were sold on the street or in a kiosk for a penny or so?
For thousands of them from the British Isles and Ireland (plus many from USA), from the 17th through the 19th century, go to the Bodleian Collection: Ballad Collection
Click on browse/search. The top index will help you search. Usually, there is some topic I am looking for and I enter the word in search.
Play around, it takes a while to learn the ropes.

There are many printed in America at American Memory. Select Search, and put in Civil War, etc., or Nineteenth Century Ballads, etc., and a lot will turn up. American Memory
Lots to learn here as well. it takes a while to find their categories.

And a lot here on Mudcat. START HERE-
Thread 30030, with definitions and directions to the Bodleian, etc.: BROADSIDES

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 09:11 PM

Dang! The Bodley again- Bodleian Collection

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 09:19 PM

Can't answer your question about definitions Peg, but a book I lost and keep meaning to replace is.

The Complete Irish Street Ballads/Colm O'Lochlainn.

Jon

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 09:33 PM

Just click on BROADSIDES in my post. Th definitions are there.

A better link at American Memory for general search by song title, etc.: America Singing

Many broadsheets as well as sheet music.

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 09:44 PM

Glasgow Ballads website: Ballads and broadsides

Subject: RE: Street Ballads?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Mar 04 - 10:57 PM

See also this thread:

   What's a Broadside?