Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution 1793-1815

Klappentext Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution is a collection of ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the French Revolution and the two decades of war that followed. Ballad writers first responded in 1793, when the French monarchs were executed and France declared war upon Britain, but as the decade proceeded, sang in thanks for the victory of British forces and to the extensive mobilization of militia and volunteer forces. This volume, complete with parallel English translations of the original Welsh texts and copious contextualizing notes, introduces readers to this telling corpus for the first time and to a host of little-known authors. Zusammenfassung Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution (1793 - 1815) is an edition of ballads composed in the Welsh language during a momentous period in the history of Western civilization. The texts respond to the upheavals of the Revolutionary decade and its afermath! as people in Britain began to react to the violent deaths of the French monarchs.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ffion Mair Jones
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2012
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9780708324615
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2461-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 464
• Serie: Wales and the French Revolution; Wales and the French Revolutio; Wales and the French Revolution
• Themen: Revolution, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, French, France, European History, Welsh, HISTORY / Europe / France, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, of, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Folk & traditional music, C 1700 To C 1800, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, Ballads