The Penguin Book of Ballads
Title | The Penguin Book of Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Grigson |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Unprepared To Die
Title | Unprepared To Die PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Slade |
Publisher | Soundcheck Books |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 099294807X |
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Title | American Ballads and Folk Songs PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Lomax |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 719 |
Release | 2013-07-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 048631992X |
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Power Ballads
Title | Power Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Garrett T. Caples |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781940696362 |
A collection of candid, surreal, and wickedly funny poems and prose.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Title | The English and Scottish Popular Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Francis James Child |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2014-11-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108076351 |
Published 1882-98, this ten-part work by Harvard's first professor of English became an essential resource for scholars and folklorists.
The Book of Ballads and Sagas #3
Title | The Book of Ballads and Sagas #3 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Vess |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
A Book of Old English Ballads
Title | A Book of Old English Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | George Wharton Edwards |
Publisher | IndyPublish.com |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |