The ballad and the folk

Autor: Buchan, David
Rok: 1972.
ISBN: 9780710073228
OCLC Number: (OCoLC)575580
OCLC Number: (ocolc)575580
OKCZID: 110376309

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
BUCHAN, David. The ballad and the folk. 1st ed. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1972, 326 s. ISBN 0-7100-7322-4.

Anotace

The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, 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. He examines a non-literate society to discover what factors besides non-literacy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyzes the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed non-literacy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballads' perennial appeal and an answer to the "ballad enigma". His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.

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