Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World

By Albert B. Friedman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670746592
• ISBN13: 9780670746590
• Release Date: June 1956
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

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Basic introductory collection of ballads in English

This volume contains a brief introduction to the form and content of ballads in the English language. It then provides a collection of representative samples in the following chapters: ballads of the supernatural; religious ballads; romantic tragedies; love and sentiment; pastourelles; domestic tragedies; tabloid crime; criminals' goodnights; ballads of the Scottish border; historical ballads; accidents and disasters; outlaws, pirates, badmen and heroes; songs of the forecastle and lumber shant; cowboy and frontier ballads;humor. There is a decent discography to lead you to recordings of the ballads.This is a good, basic reference and/or introduction to English language ballads.