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Evolving Tradition - The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music

English · Hardback

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The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. An Evolving Tradition is the story of the Child Ballads-the world's best-known and most highly regarded repository of traditional English folk songs, and the wellspring for approximately 10,000 recordings over the last century, from obscure musicological archives to classic releases from Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Led Zeppelin.
Drawing on interviews with numerous scholars and musicians, author Dave Thompson explains what a ballad is, outlines their dominant themes, and recounts how these ballads survived to become a mainstay of field recordings made by Cecil Sharp, Alan Lomax, and others as they traveled the English and American countryside in search of old songs. Thompson traverses the entire spectrum of rock, pop, folk, roots, experimental music, industrial, and goth to reveal the remarkable legacy and incalculable influence of the Child Ballads on all manner of modern music.


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By Dave Thompson

Summary

The story of the Child Ballads--the definitive repository of traditional English folk songs--and their influence on modern popular music

Product details

Authors Dave Thompson, Thompson Dave
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2022
 
EAN 9781493068067
ISBN 978-1-4930-6806-7
No. of pages 432
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries

MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, History of Music, Folk & traditional music, Music reviews & criticism, Traditional & folk music, Folk style

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