... as well as through performance by ballad-mongers on urban streets and at provincial fairs and markets. An example is provided by the next most popular siege song in French oral tradition, Coirault 7005, which relates to the ‘La Prise de Namur’ [The Capture of Namur] in 1692, and which is likewise couched...

.... Revision, and ultimately falsification, of the historical past as well as its fictionalized representations is not only unavoidable in this process, it constitutes a generative principle of the Western. This essay explores the imagined adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western movie The Ballad...

... the origins of the form and many seem to assume that it emerged from instrumental repertoire in the late Baroque period. This article reveals important connections between sentences and poetic texts in early popular song, especially in seventeenth-century British ballads, short-meter hymns, and German folk...

... inclusive version. Oscar Wilde prison writing The Ballad of Reading Gaol prison archives prison photography Oscar Wilde's two-year imprisonment in solitary confinement caused him profound moral, emotional and physical shock. He nonetheless claimed to have been saved by his fellow prisoners. He...

... use ballad conventions; that is, they are strophic, with verse forms that drive forward a joke or help to frame the action (such as it is) in a narrative episode. These ballad-like songs, in other words, sit alongside the spoken dialogue in ways that perform a narrative function within the drama...