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- Title
Street Ballad Singers and Sellers, c. 1730-1780.
- Authors
Atkinson, David
- Abstract
Street ballad singers in the eighteenth century appear in records relating to the law and criminality, reports in the periodical press, inferences that can be drawn from the ballad trade itself, and references in works of a broadly literary kind, as well as in some visual depictions (most famously in the works of William Hogarth). Ballad singers are frequently, perhaps mostly, described in terms of criminality, vagrancy, and vagabondage, and yet there was clearly a market for their wares even among the more respectable classes. Ballad singers need to be understood as being also ballad sellers, with a part to play in the eighteenth-century economy, and while the evidence is certainly incomplete and metropolitan in its bias, it is nonetheless possible to sketch in something of the contemporary experience.
- Subjects
FOLK singers; BALLAD (Literary form); HOGARTH, William, 1697-1764; 18TH century music; FOLK songs
- Publication
Folk Music Journal, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 3, p72
- ISSN
0531-9684
- Publication type
Article