Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

English

Prize: Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, 2011, sponsored by The Folklore Society (UK) 'A hog-faced woman, murderous wives, blackface pirates - this rich collection of essays offers the latest word on British ballads from a wide spectrum of scholars in literature, ethnomusicology, folklore, and history. Required reading for anyone with a sophisticated interest in pre-1800 popular culture in Britain and America.' Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University, USA 'Ballads and Broadsides makes a significant contribution to extant research on ballad scholarship.' Ethnomusicology 'This handsomely-produced volume brings together fifteen essays and an afterword, derived largely from the papers delivered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Early Modern Center's Winter Conference of 2006... It will make widely available much material not included in EEBO and ECCO.' Rare Books Newsletter '... the history of collecting and evaluating ballads from Pepys to the digital age, is particularly useful as an introduction to the study of ballads and deserves to be widely read. ... In representing the interests of 'literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history' the editors successfully promote the riches and the potential of EBBA.' The Library 'Overall, this collection offers a fulfilling variety of subjects and approaches, but at the same time there is also a sense of common purpose and a lovely sense of collegial engagement between the different scholars and essays... The book can be very highly recommended both for those with interest in individual topics covered and as a first-rate sample of directions in recent and on-going ballad scholarship.' Lied und Populäre Kultur 'It is clear that the contributors to this volume have made an effort to construct the book as a conversation between disciplines and fields, collecting essays much like the ballad collectors they examine. The result is a