balladry
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- noun
- /ˈbælədri/
- Literature
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baladística
- The concert featured a variety of balladry that told stories of love and loss through beautiful melodies.
- popular balladry
Examples
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Indeed, there was a tradition of balladry that was alive and well and formed a central component of laboring-class convivial culture.
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The influence of emotive soul and pop balladry remain an integral part of Smith's style.
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The distinction between these two kinds of balladry, however, is not easy to maintain.
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And more particularly, how might we understand Wordsworth's "Preface" in the light of these observations about balladry?
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Their political spirit is importantly indirect and properly regulated to avoid the boisterous confrontations of alehouse balladry.
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The blues was only one of many kinds of music played by these men, and they played it in many different ways, ranging from the folk-flavored balladry of Mississippi John Hurt to the ragtime-style guitar picking of Blind Blake.
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One kind of balladry that would have been particularly influential for Wordsworth and Coleridge as they worked on the Lyrical Ballads is the political ballad.
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The more widespread and popular the ballad and the more it resembles older balladry (as "Frankie and Albert" and "John Henry"), the more difficult the problems.
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Abundant collections attested to the preservation of old English and Scottish ballads, while some, such as G. Malcolm Laws in Native American Balladry, indexed songs that are unique to the American scene.
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My main interest here is in Wordsworth's theory of balladry, and how the "Preface" participates in contemporary debates about the aesthetics and politics of the ballad and the stakes involved in engaging those debates.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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A song people in a place sing for a long time that tells their stories
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A style of music where people perform traditional songs from a community
How Narrative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Balladry comes from ballad, which itself comes from an old word like ballare meaning 'to dance', because ballads were first dance-songs that told a story. That's why balladry means the art or tradition of making and performing those story-songs.