Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles.
This article discusses the significance of ballads in the eighteenth century society in Scotland. Ballads were sung in taverns, camps, and laborers' cottages, as well as in the blazing halls of the wealthy. They were memorized and transmitted orally by ordinary people as well as by professional sing...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 47; no. 2/3; pp. 289 - 308 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer/Fall2006
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| Sumario: | This article discusses the significance of ballads in the eighteenth century society in Scotland. Ballads were sung in taverns, camps, and laborers' cottages, as well as in the blazing halls of the wealthy. They were memorized and transmitted orally by ordinary people as well as by professional singers and actors. Some scholars believed that ballads were the work of professional minstrels, poets, and skilled musicians who entertained in the baronial mansions of the Middle Ages. |
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