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08 Mar 04 - 06:27 PM (#1131777) Subject: Street Ballads? From: GUEST,peg 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 |
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08 Mar 04 - 09:08 PM (#1131888) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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 |
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08 Mar 04 - 09:11 PM (#1131891) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Dang! The Bodley again- Bodleian Collection |
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08 Mar 04 - 09:19 PM (#1131895) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: GUEST,Jon 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 |
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08 Mar 04 - 09:33 PM (#1131905) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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08 Mar 04 - 09:44 PM (#1131914) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Glasgow Ballads website: Ballads and broadsides |
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08 Mar 04 - 10:57 PM (#1131949) Subject: RE: Street Ballads? From: masato sakurai See also this thread: What's a Broadside? |