FUMERTON, Patricia, Pavel KOSEK and Marie HANZELKOVÁ. Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B. V., 2022, 498 pp. ISBN 978-94-6372-155-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721554.
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Original name Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
Authors FUMERTON, Patricia, Pavel KOSEK and Marie HANZELKOVÁ.
Edition Amsterdam, 498 pp. 2022.
Publisher Amsterdam University Press B. V.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Editorship of professional books
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-94-6372-155-4
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721554
Keywords (in Czech) broadside ballads; chapbooks; hymnology; pilgrimige; history of the Czech language; history of the Czech literature; ethnomusicology; etnography; book history
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Changed by Changed by: prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D., učo 4755. Changed: 20/11/2022 18:03.
Abstract
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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DG18P02OVV021, research and development projectName: Kramářské písně v brněnských historických fondech
Investor: Ministry of Culture of the CR
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