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- Title
What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism. Adrian Daub.
- Authors
Bullock, Philip Ross
- Abstract
Adrian Daub's study, "What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism," explores the hybrid literary and music ballad genre. Daub argues that the ballad genre lived off the fantasy of tapping into an earlier, premodern, oral mode of relating to poetry and the community, while also embodying modernity. The book delves into the ballad's relationship to orality, its incorporation into operatic narratives, its gender dynamics, and its role in German nationalism. Daub's work offers insights into the lives and creativity of ballad authors and meditates on the genre's complexities and contradictions.
- Subjects
NATIONALISM; POPULAR music genres; MEMORY; CULTURE; COLLECTIVE memory; CREATIVE ability; MODERNITY; BALLAD (Literary form); FANTASY fiction
- Publication
Music & Letters, 2023, Vol 104, Issue 4, p647
- ISSN
0027-4224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ml/gcad058