The ballad and the folk
Buchan, David, 1939-19941972
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The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary to investigate the ballad as oral literature and one broadly ethnographic to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland.
Main title:
The ballad and the folk / (by) David Buchan.
Author:
Buchan, David, 1939-1994, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge and K. Paul, 1972.
Collation:
xii, 326 pages, leaf : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Bibliography .p.312-314. - Index.
ISBN:
07100732249780710073228
Dewey class:
821.04821398.8821.08
LC class:
PR8580
Local class:
821.04X1X1
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
Ballads in EnglishSocial aspectsStudy regions, North-east Scotland1745 Association Collection 1745 Association LibrarySCOTTISH POETRYBALLADS
BRN:
513983
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