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Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900

Authors

FUMERTON Patricia KOSEK Pavel HANZELKOVÁ Marie ANDRLOVÁ FIDLEROVÁ Alena BOČKOVÁ Hana BROMOVÁ Veronika BŘEZINOVÁ Kateřina BYDŽOVSKÁ Iva DUFKA Jiří GROCHOWSKI Piotr FROLCOVÁ Věra HOLUBOVÁ Markéta IVÁNEK Jakub MACHOVÁ Jitka GLOMBOVÁ Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ Romana METRAK Maciej Jerzy NAVRÁTILOVÁ Olga SLAVICKÝ Tomáš RUŠČIN Peter SMYČKOVÁ Kateřina SOLEIMAN POUR HASHEMI Michaela SZTURCOVÁ Monika TIMOFEJEV Dmitrij MALURA Jan POLÁKOVÁ Jana PLESKALOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2022
Type Monograph
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide.
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