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

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This landmark collection of essays makes a major contribution to the globally burgeoning f ield of broadside ballad study by extending our gaze to include the largely underexplored treasure trove of some 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. Czech broadside ballads, when viewed within this historical span and from the interdisciplinary perspective provided by the contributors to this edition, are revealed to be a unique and local cultural phenomenon. Yes, they exhibit features common to Central European and Western European printed ballads, but Czech broadside ballads at the same time stand out as singularly Czech. In many ways, they have been shaped by the country’s unique history of religious clashes, civil wars, occupational conf licts, invasions, and the consequent redrawings, sometimes overnight, of the country’s borders. In the hundreds of years that make up Czech history, f lux, and mutation—key features that we see characterizing the history of the broadside ballad genre itself—have shaped the Czech lands and its singular embrace of printed ballad topics, ethnography, musicology, linguistics, and even preservation.The special quality of Czech broadside ballads can be further seen in every aspect of their production, dissemination, and reception, despite occasional similarities with neighbouring lands such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia. To name but a few, as we look forward: the tiny sextodecimo size typical to Czech broadside ballads (in contrast to German and many Western European octavo-size ballads), the prevailing Schwabacher typeface (in contrast to German Fracture), the huge amount of preserved printings (over 100,000, as noted above—considerably more than have survived in German, despite the signif icantly larger size of that country), the dominance of religious themes (especially pilgrimage broadside ballads), and, as we will discuss further, their portability and treasure-like quality, which is also evoked in the specif ic Czech form of individual reception (the owner creating personal book-like collections, called špalí?ky or “blocks”). In the simplest terms, as Fumerton summarizes, Czech broadside ballads are uniquely “precious,” in every sense of the word (valued, charming, tiny, and unique).

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No. Panggil

943.7 FUM c

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

500 hlm

Bahasa

English

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9789463721554

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943.7

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text

Tipe Media

computer

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online resource

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Subjek

History of Czech Republic and Slovakia

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