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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 23: S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The English Ballad
Jordan Lee Schnee
Comments
The ballad, one of the most popular forms of English poetry for centuries, lies at the intersection between literature and music, between lyric and narrative. In this course, we will analyze the texts and musical interpretations of important ballads, exploring questions of mediality from the broadsheet, to the field recording, to the pop song. We will use archivist Stephen Roud’s 2017 Folk Song in England. London: Faber & Faber, among other texts, to contextualize the primary sources. We will also think about the ethical questions and power dynamics present in collection/recording of ostensibly “pure” and “local” ballads for cataloguing and mass consumption. We will interrogate the notion of high art/literature being separate from its popular/folk forms.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2023-04-21 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-04-28 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-05-05 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-05-12 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-05-19 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-05-26 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-06-02 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-06-09 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-06-16 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-06-23 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-06-30 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-07-07 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-07-14 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-07-21 14:00 - 16:00