Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America

David Atkinson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK. Steve Roud is an independent scholar in the UK.

1: Introduction; 2: Was There Really a ‘Mass Extinction of Old Ballads' in the Romantic Period?; 3: Birmingham Broadsides and Oral Tradition; 4: The Newcastle Song Chapbooks; 5: Forgotten Broadsides and the Song Tradition of the Scots Travellers; 6: Welsh Balladry and Literacy; 7: Ballads and Ballad Singers: Samuel Lover's Tour of Dublin in 1830; 8: Henry J. Wehman and Cheap Print in Late Nineteenth-Century America; 9: ‘I'd have you to buy it and learn it': Sabine Baring-Gould, his Fellow Collectors, and Street Literature; 10: The Popular Ballad and the Book Trade: ‘Bateman's Tragedy' versus ‘The Demon Lover’; 11: Mediating Maria Marten: Comparative and Contextual Studies of the Red Barn Ballads; 12: ‘Old Brown's Daughter': Re-contextualizing a ‘Locally’ Composed Newfoundland Folk Song