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Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs

David Atkinson (Ed), Steve Roud (Ed)

£12.00

Street Literature is the generic term used to describe cheap printed items such as broadsides, chapbooks, and illustrations in the form of woodcuts and engravings, produced for, and avidly bought by, ordinary folk from the early sixteenth to the early twentieth century. This volume includes a chapter of Cumbrian interest by  Cumbrian music historian Sue Allan

Penurious Poets and Ballad-Mongers: Some Nineteenth-Century Ballad Singers in Cumberland and Westmorland
Sue Allan

 

publisher:

The Ballad Partners

pages:

178p

Publication Date:

2019 October

format:

Paperback; 233 x 156mm

ISBN:

9781916142404

illustrations:

Some black and white illustrations