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The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore): Routledge Library Editions: Folklore

Autor David Buchan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 feb 2015
The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138842205
ISBN-10: 1138842206
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Library Editions: Folklore

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction  Part 1. The Oral Tradition: the Folk  2. The Land and the People  3. The Agricultural Society  4. The Border Region  5. The Clannit Society  Part 2. The Oral Tradition: the Ballads  6. Balladry and Oral Poetry  7. The Oral Ballads of Mrs Brown  8. The Substance  9. The Structure of the Ballads I  10. The Structure of the Ballads II  11. The Structure of the Ballads III  12. The Sound of the Ballads  13. The Oral Ballad: A Summing-up  Part 3. The Tradition in Transition: the Folk  14. The Revolutions  15. The New Society  Part 4. The Tradition in Transition: the Ballads  16. The Peter Buchan Controversy  17. The Ballads of James Nicol  Part 5. The Modern Tradition  18. The Ballads of Bell Robertson  19. The Bothy Ballads  20. Conclusion

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The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.