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oapen-20.500.12657-591582022-11-05T03:21:57Z Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900 Fumerton, Patricia Kosek, Pavel Hanzelková, Marie Broadside ballads, popular culture, history, music, literature bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide. 2022-11-04T13:12:47Z 2022-11-04T13:12:47Z 2022 book 9789463721554 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59158 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048553341.pdf https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5334-1-highres.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5334-1-frontcover.jpg; https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-90-485-5334-1-thumb.jpg Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463721554 10.5117/9789463721554 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463721554 500 Amsterdam open access
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This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide.
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