Broadside ballad

Japanese: broadside ballad(英語表記)broadsideballad
Broadside ballad

… [Hiroshi Sugiura]
[English Ballads]
Until around the 15th century, English ballads were sung by people in a circle while dancing, but eventually they came to be sung by minstrels and took on a more narrative element. In the Elizabethan era, it was common to print and sell short ballads about topics, and these were called broadside ballads. Since the Parsi era, attempts have been made to collect and record traditional ballads, but the most well-known of these is the compilation by Francis J. Child (1825-96), a professor at Harvard University in the United States, at the end of the 19th century. Since then, research on English ballads has usually relied on Child's classification.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "broadside ballad" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…【杉浦 博】
[英詩のバラッド]
 イギリスのバラッドは,15世紀ごろまでは円陣を作った人たちが踊りながら歌うものであったようだが,やがて吟遊詩人が歌う形となり,語り物的な要素が強まった。エリザベス朝時代には時事小唄を刷物にして売ることが盛んに行われ,そうした歌をブロードサイド・バラッドbroadside balladと呼んだ。前述のパーシ以降,伝承バラッドを集めて記録することがしばしば試みられたが,なかでも19世紀末のアメリカのハーバード大学教授チャイルドFrancis J.Child(1825‐96)による集大成の仕事が広く知られており,それ以後の英国系バラッドの研究はチャイルドによる分類整理に依拠するのが通例である。…

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