Victorian songhunters
Subtitle: the recovery and editing of English vernacular ballads and folk lyrics, 1820-1883
By: E. David Gregory.
Publisher: Scarecrow
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Folk songs, English -- England -- History and criticism; Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legacies from the past. Introduction, awkward but indispensable words ;  The early collectors ; Romantics and their critics; title: The vernacular song revival, 1820-1859. National and regional song, 1820-1839 ; The Percy Society I, the antiquarians ; The Percy Society II: other song catchers ; William Chappell & the history of vernacular song ; Other early Victorians, Broadwood to child; title: The mid-Victorian era, 1860-1883. Around the regions ; Old songs repackaged, broadsides, drolleries, and ditties ; Ballad editing, perspectives and practice ; The Ballad Society ; Birth of a folksong revival.