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Modern Street Ballads is a generous collection of early 19th-century street ballads. Ballads developed out of minstrelsy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuri

Natascha Würzbach's 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglec

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -

This book is an anthology of popular songs and ballads from the streets of 19th-century England. Compiled by John Ashton, a leading authority on English popular