Brave Ballads Of Truth

Author : Jane McCaw
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412006716
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Ballads of Truth written by Jane McCaw and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History/American Studies GREAT MOMENTS IN U.S. HISTORY...THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED IT Some of the names we know: Sacajawea, the Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark through the wilderness...Sojourner Truth, the ex-slave who became a leading advocate for the rights of women and blacks...Julia Ward Howe, inspired to write "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Others could have been lost to history: Harriet Wilson, the first black American novelist...the first men to earn the Purple Heart...Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across the U.S. Jane McCaw has uncovered their stories. In this collection of 44 traditional and free-verse ballads covering Colonial times through 1909, the 89-year-old author gives readers an intimate glance at the unsung heroines and heroes of our history. Many of them are women, many are not white, and some, like the eagle who led battle charges in the Civil War or the horses that made the Pony Express a reality, are not even human. If you are interested in American history, patriotism, women's studies, or the experience of different cultures in the American melting pot, pick up this book and start your journey through American history, through the experiences of the people who took part in those events. It will be a journey to remember! Recommended for ages 10-adult

Author : h P.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wit and Mirth. An antidote against melancholy. Compounded of ingenious ... ballads, songs, and catches. Compiled by H. P., i.e. Henry Playford. ... Third edition, enlarged written by h P. and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Una McIlvenna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197551858
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing the News of Death written by Una McIlvenna and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; written by and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas D'Urfey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wit and Mirth; Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy written by Thomas D'Urfey and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Harding Firth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Songs and Ballads written by Charles Harding Firth and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ballads illustrating the history of the British navy from the sixteenth to the middle of the ninteenth century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbyterian Loyalty written by and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Walker Wilkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375107188
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Ballads written by W. Walker Wilkins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author : William Walker Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Ballads of the 17th and 18th Centuries written by William Walker Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Walker Wilkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by William Walker Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: