Isbn: 9780866984690 - broadside ballads from the pepys collection: a selection of texts, approaches, and recordings: volume 421 (6 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardcover book only; CDs missing. Pages unmarked, gentle wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. New oversized hardcover in glossy casewraps. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. Includes bibliography, glossary, illustrations, and 2 CDs. xxiii, 335 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This volume serves as a companion to the online English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and is a guide to the ballad collection of diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) (the Pepys Ballad Archive (PBA) includes more than 1,800 broadside ballads). It offers 155 ballads representative of Pepys's categories, as well as essays which explain features of each category and CDs of recordings of the first two stanzas of each selected ballad. Fumerton introduces brief background essays about seventeenth-century ballad culture, its rise in the period, and current controversies. She aims to revive early English broadside ballads for students and scholars as texts, art, songs, and social records of the period. Twenty-two chapters are divided into four parts: the culture of broadside ballads; the formal features of broadside ballads; collecting: from scrapbooks to cyberspace; and selecting and selections. There is also a list of Ballad Selections: Devotion and morality; history; tragedy; state and times; love pleasant; love unfortunate; marriage; sea; drinking and good fellowship; humor and frolics; and various supplements. Recordings of Available Tunes for Ballad Selections is similarly themed. There is a list of selected ballads (by Pepys Category), list of tunes.…

Laminated Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With cds at front and rear. Excellent clean bright copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. New Book Still In Plastic Wrapping.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 335 pages. "This book is an expert interdisciplinary guide to the English Ballad Archive's important database of 1,800 broadside ballads collected by Samuel Pepys and is accompanied by 155 representative selections from the ballads as well as CD recordings of extant tunes (allowing the book to be used as a standalone resource with or without EBBA). The work provides short, informative essays about the cultural background and formal features of the ballads, Pepys's collecting practices, and the organizing categories Pepys used in compiling his five-album collection. Supplemented by a glossary and referencing further resources in EBBA the work is an indispensable research and teaching tool that helps us look through the window that broadside ballads open on the past.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. Brand New. Factory Sealed. Hardback copy, no dustjacket as issued. (51/4).