TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson, David
AB  - This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0041
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646652
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 893658714
KW  - ballads
KW  - oral transmission
KW  - textual scholarship
KW  - ballad studies
KW  - folk songs
KW  - critique génétique
KW  - Ballad
KW  - Oral tradition
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c6791619-536c-4d62-8ed5-8db8cba64e5e/646652.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30347
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2014
TI  - The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contextsnull
ER  - 
