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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.oz7g2o
- isbn: 9781783740277
- eisbn: 9782821876354
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folklore literature music ballad ballade littérature musique Music Literature (General) SOC002010 JHMCSujets proches
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David Atkinson, « 2. On the Nature of Evidence », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.oz7g2o
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At the end of the previous chapter, reference was made to the evidence of all the texts and tunes that were not recorded. The burlesque ‘Giles Collins and Lady Alis’ provides evidence of a kind for the currency of the ‘George Collins’ ballad at an earlier date, because parody makes little sense without some knowledge of what is being parodied. But the nature of that currency is uncertain (there is no earlier printed record for ‘George Collins’). The heyday of folk song collecting in Britain f...