The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts

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Exploring the intersection of ballad studies and modern textual scholarship, this book challenges the notion of ballads as fixed entities linked to specific sources. It examines the complexities of ballad origins, transmission, and the interplay between sound and writing, emphasizing their inherent instability. By providing a theoretical framework, it seeks to enhance the ethnographic methods prevalent in recent research. Aimed at scholars in ballad and folk song studies, it also appeals to those in folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.