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Ballads for Remembering
Ballads for Re-Membering is an examination of themes of consciousness such as time, space and emergence, set against the precarity of the climate crisis. Using an arts-and-Zen-practice-based methodology of research-creation, and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… onto urban contexts. Focusing on the BBC ‘radio ballads’, I argue that industrial folksong was a form of social realism intended as a gendered bulwark against threats posed by Americanisation and postwar affluence. Chapter 3, ‘“Found True and Unspoiled” | Blues, Performance, and the Mythology of …
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The Ballads of Carl Loewe
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Schiller's ballads: edited with introduction notes and vocabulary
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Broadside ballads and bawdy ditties : Music in the plays of Richard Brome.
This thesis examines the role of music in four plays, The Northern Lass, The City Wit, The Weeding of Covent Garden and The English Moor by the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The use of music in Brome's plays has received little scholarly investigation despite the sudden research interest in …
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
<p>The relationships between place, narrative, memory, and identity are integral in many oral traditions. This project considers place as actively shaping Sterling’s identity in Laguna author Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel <em>Almanac of the Dead </em>and R.L. Burnside’s rendition of the popular …
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Pedagogical Approaches to "Down by the Riverside" and "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" from North American Ballads by Frederic Rzewski
… (1937 - present), are the third and fourth ballads, respectively, of the four that comprise his North American Ballads, completed in 1979. These two pieces are often performed together, without the first two ballads, perhaps because they seem to appeal to a wider audience, due to Rzewski's …
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Folklorinė baladė lietuviškojoje tradicijoje /
The dissertation is devoted to Lithuanian folk ballads. Besides general questions, it examines selected texts of Lithuanian folk ballads and balladic motifs in songs, with a focus on the problematics of ballads’ plots, migration of their motifs and the meaning of these motifs. It is claimed that …
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German Translations and Criticism of the Danish Medieval Ballad to 1853
… translations and criticism of Danish medieval ballads published between 1766, the year in which the first German version appeared, and 1853, the year in which the first fascicle of the critical edition of the Danish ballads, Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, was published. For this investigation a …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
Ballads, Songs and Snatches demonstrates how allusion to folk song and some aspects of popular musical culture were absorbed into the polyphony of discourses in the realist prose of the nineteenth century, and explores the implications of the various transformations that occurred during this …
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A City Out of Old Songs: the influence of ballads, hymns and children’s songs on an Irish writer and broadcaster
… of aural influences on the writer in the form of ballads, hymns and children’s songs in English and in Irish. The Context Statement is set in the wider cultural environment of the increasing interest in Ireland in local versions of ballads annotated by Francis Child (1825-1896). This exegesis …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… camp followers) in popular corridos (Mexican ballads/folksongs). Five research questions are addressed by the study: 1) How has the image of the soldadera in popular culture affected the author's experience and identity as a Mexican American/Chicana? 2) What do the historical …
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The ballad as a literary genre: studies toward a redefinition
… compounded when discussion turns to contemporary ballads believed either to have developed from literary ballads or from the early twentieth-century chanson. This study attempts to clarify the issue by comparing the compositional principles in each of the forms in order to determine whether they …
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“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew
… and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s <em>Lyrical Ballads </em>was published in 1800, it contained nearly triple the number of poems as the first volume. Wordsworth’s “Song for the Wandering Jew” was one of these newly added poems. There are a number of influences at work in the poem, chief among …
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland
… with particular attention given to its classical ballads. From the correlation of their people's life style and moral orientations (the pragmatic context), the views and values carried across genres (the symbolic context) and those expressed within the ballads (their poetic context), one claims to …
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
… of the Sapphic presence in Poems and Ballads: 1, as a dominant female muse who exacts peculiar sacrifices from the poet of subjection, necrophilia, and even a form of “death” in the loss of his own personality; as a result, he is finally reduced to acting as the muse’s mouthpiece, a …
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The literary sources of William Wordsworth's works, 10 July 1793 to 10 June 1797
… transition from Descriptive Sketches to Lyrical Ballads. Despite the key critical question ofthe originality of Lyrical Ballads, no exhaustive examination of Wordsworth's use of literary sources during this period has yet been undertaken.In this thesis a pattern of sources for each poem written …
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