Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs

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

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