Dataset
Broadside Ballads Online: RDF metadata
- Documentation:
- Broadside ballads, printed cheaply on one side of a sheet of paper from the earliest days of printing, contain song-lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations and bear news, prophecies, histories, moral advice, religious warnings, political arguments, satire, comedy and bawdy tales. Sold in large numbers on street-corners, in town-squares and at fairs by travelling ballad-singers and pinned on the walls of alehouses and other public places, they were sung, read and viewed with pleasure by a wide audience, but have been handed-down to us in only small numbers. The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford holds nearly 30,000 songs, many of them unique survivals, printed from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. Digital facsimiles and an online database were first made accessible in 1999. The Broadside Ballads Online project (ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk) updated that database and included links it to other resources. The English Broadside Ballad Archive based in the Early-Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara specialises in ballads of the 17th century and provided full-text transcriptions, as well as images and catalogue records, of over 4,000 ballads. The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, based at the English Folk Song and Dance Society headquartered at Cecil Sharp House in London, maintains the Roud Broadside Index of references to songs which appeared on broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, and other cheap print publications, up to about 1920. Linked to the Roud Folk Song index, this provides a survey of the ballad tradition through its publishing history. A representation of the Broadside Ballads Online data as RDF can be downloaded from this dataset.
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Authors/Creators
Contributors
+ Bennett, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- GLAM
- Department:
- Bodleian Libraries
- Role:
- Project member, Contributor
+ Kaya, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- GLAM
- Department:
- Bodleian Libraries
- Role:
- Contributor, Project member
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2020
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:5ab934b5-8229-4f33-82d5-4a18f976c6fb
- Deposit date:
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2020-02-17
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