Download or read book Picking the Ballad s Bones written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland are great stories to visit but nobody in their right mind would want to live there. There s a high body count for every ballad and a happy ending usually involves boy meets girl and they end up sharing a grave. The musicians who go to retrieve the songs, with the help of the magic banjo, Lazarus, know this, but the fact is, the songs also contain a great deal of magic useful in defeating the devils who are out to dehumanize humanity by stealing the music. The Queen of the Fairies, aka the Debauchery Demon, Torchy Burns, makes them a deal they can t refuse and the reluctant heroes find themselves thrust into the lives and deaths of ballad people they know are going to end badly. It s enough to make a picker take up accounting!
Download or read book Picking the Ballad s Bones written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ragtag band of folksingers in possession of an enchanted banjo enters the land Great Britain, where the banjo stirs up the ghost of Sir Walter Scott, who is intent on saving the last of the folk songs
Download or read book A Pedlar s Pack of Ballads and Songs written by William Hugh Logan and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Murder Ballad written by Lucy Ribchester and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh, 1791. Isobel Duguid and her friend Clessidro are the stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Clessidro sings opera and Isobel sings famously dark Scottish ballads, despite her cavalier attitude to holding a tune. They roam the streets of Edinburgh, enjoying an opulent lifestyle. One night a note arrives from the mysterious Mrs Abercorn, asking if Isobel's most notorious song, The Fiddler's Wrath, might be included in a book. It's the tale of a prima donna who died of heartbreak after her husband committed murder and was sent to the gallows. Isobel is intrigued. But Mrs. Abercorn's curiosity about the ballad is far more than a fickle interest. When Clessidro goes missing, Isobel is forced to confront her past and the truth about The Fiddler's Wrath begins to emerge. Using the geography of Edinburgh to guide us through the story, this dark tale becomes more complicated than anyone could have imagined and awakens the chilling retribution of a once buried secret.
Download or read book Mastering English Literature written by Richard Gill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this leading text provides a comprehensive guide to literary study. Emphasis has been placed on contextualizing literature and this updated version takes these changes into account by incorporating more material on historical and cultural contexts as well as in-depth discussions on novels, drama and poetry.
Download or read book The Roxburghe Ballads written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pick a Pocket Or Two written by Ethan Mordden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anecdotal and evincing a strong point of view, [this] book covers not only the shows and their authors but the personalities as well--W.S. Gilbert trying out his stagings on a toy theatre, Ivor Novello going to jail for abusing wartime gas rationing during World War II, fabled producer C.B. Cochran coming to a most shocking demise for a man whose very name meant 'classy, carefree entertainment.' ... Mordden is the preeminent historian of the form, and his book will be required reading for readers of all walks, from the most casual of musical theater goers to musical theater buffs to students and scholars of the form"--
Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Later English Broadside Ballads written by John Holloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense Madden Collection in the University Library, Cambridge, continutes the same literary emphasis, especially with a large number of pieces exploiting all the bustle, humour and variety of life in London - the colourful, crowded, rapidly-expanding metropolis of the period. Other sections concentrate on more traditional themes like crime and transportation, religion (some moving 'freemason' songs), love-making, sex and the 'sex war': or on fashion, the Royal Family and its escapades, and life in the army or navy. There is also an extensive collection of 'Napoleon' ballads, ranging from the early years through to his final re-internment in Paris. This book, illustrated with some remarkable large-scale contemporary woodcuts, should interest not only social historians and students of literature, but also all who have an ear for the verse of the people. This book was first published in 1979.
Download or read book To the Finland Station written by Edmund Wilson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin's arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson's own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a singular idea—that it is possible to construct a society based on justice, equality, and freedom—gaining the power to change history. Vico, Michelet, Bakunin, and especially Marx—along with scores of other anarchists, socialists, nihilists, utopians, and more—all come to life in these pages. And in Wilson's telling, their stories and their ideas remain as alive, as provocative, as relevant now as they were in their own time.
Download or read book Best Loved American Folk Songs written by John Avery Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Book of British Ballads written by Samuel Carter Hall and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of British Ballads The Book of British Ballads Second Series Edited by S C H written by Samuel Carter Hall and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legendary and Romantic Ballads of Scotland written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
