The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts

Bibliographic Data

ID5823253
AuthorsDavid Atkinson (0000-0003-2082-0236, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-02-25
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOpen Book Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11647/obp.0041
OpenAlexW4299621052
ISBN9781783740277
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

singers sometimes experience in recalling words in the absence of a tune (and there is some evidence from neuroscience for the synergy of the two things in human memory) -there is still an absence of a critical vocabulary that would convincingly facilitate the discussion of an integrated whole.Ballad words belong ultimately to the domain of language, and ballad melodies to the domain of music, yet it remains unclear to what extent those two domains really can be thought of as precisely equivalent -as both belonging, as it were, to a single grand domain of Saussurean langue.Versions of some of these chapters have been aired as published articles or as presentations, but all have been rewritten for this volume in order to integrate them into the book, to bring them up to date, and, as far as possible, to avoid unnecessary repetition.Versions of chapters one, five, six, and seven, respectively, appeared in the journals Lied und populäre Kultur/ Song and Popular Culture

Ballad · The Imaginary · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · Medieval Literature and History