Broadside ballads from the Pepys collection
Subtitle: a selection of texts, approaches, and recordings
By: edited by Patricia Fumerton
Contributors: Pepys Ballad Archive (U.S.); English Broadside Ballad Archive (U.S.)
Series: Medieval and renaissance texts and studies -- v. 421; MRTS texts for teaching -- v. 6
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tempe, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780866984690
Subjects: Texts; English Folk songs; English Ballads; Broadsides; History and criticism; Specimens; Library
Description: Includes 155 selected ballads, presented in modern fonts, but laid out as they were originally, including original artwork (woodcuts). The recordings are of mostly unaccompanied individual singers (men and women).
Notes: A teaching edition and guide to the online Pepys Ballad Archive (PBA), conceived as the first phase and companion to EBBA (the online English Broadside Ballad Archive (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu)). The PBA is the product of a team affiliated with the Early Modern Center of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara with considerable aid from the Department of Music.

A selection of representative ballads from each of Pepys's categories, along with essays explaining some of the features that characterize the categories by which he gathered the ballads, and two CD recordings of the first two stanzas of each selected ballad.

Includes bibliographical references.