The ballad and the folk : studies in the balladry and the society of the North-East of Scotland

The thesis is a study of a regional tradition. Through an investigation of the social conditions over the last ix hundred years in the richest ballad areas in Britain, and through a co-relation of these varying conditions with the varying typee of ballad produced, it attempts to give harper definiti...

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Main Author: Buchan, David D.
Published: University of Aberdeen 1966
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592183