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Imagine life as a musical, one where the news, rumors, scandal, history, satire, tales of sexual adventure and even obituaries were delivered in song. Everywhere you went you’d hear people singing — ...

There are big choruses, big songs and plenty of freewheeling brass, spiky guitars, strings and sharp contrasts in these bold settings of Broadside Ballads from Manchester’s Chetham Library, songs such ...

Editor's note: See the illustrations that are being digitized and even listen to songs being sung, by clicking on links in the caption, as you move through the images in this article. The University ...

Northern England broadside ballad singer Jennifer Reid has released her fourth album, The Ballad Of The Gatekeeper – a collection of songs that centres voices and stories not often acknowledged within ...

Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 101 Little Boxes / Guitar. 102 Fare Thee Well / Guitar. 103 The Ballad of Lou Marsh / ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

The article introduces the Czech broadside ballad as one of the genres of semi-popular production. It outlines its development, formal characteristics and specific features and, at the same time, ...

Tokyo, Japan's The One Thought Moment, which features ex–Suicide Machine Dan Lukacinsky, has posted the new song "Long Wave" online at their MySpace page. The band's debut 4 song EP White Ashes & Dead ...