{"product_id":"the-broadside-ballad-in-early-modern-england-moving-media-tactical-publics-hardback-9780812252316","title":"The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England; Moving Media, Tactical Publics (Hardback) 9780812252316","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMoving Media, Tactical Publics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Fumerton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252316\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages, 83 illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 1.082 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Fumerton has produced the singular volume on the broadside ballad in the early modern period. Part ballad primer, part exhaustively-researched history of ballad media, collectors, and culture, part theoretically-informed analysis of individual ballads and their publics, \u003ci\u003eThe Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a cornerstone for scholars interested in print history and ephemera, music history, performance studies, popular culture, and more. In focusing on the heyday of broadside ballads.\" (Seventeenth-Century News) \"[T[his is a stimulating and wide-ranging book that will enrich our understanding of the early modern broadside ballad, augment the invaluable research tool that the English Broadside Ballad Archive has become, and stimulate further scholarship on this important 'multimedia artifact' of early modern culture.\" (Journal of British Studies) \"In this substantial study, Patricia Fumerton draws on more than a decade of working closely with early modern printed texts to analyze English black-letter broadside ballads of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, approaching them as material artifacts...The strength of Fumerton's book resides in her analysis of the techniques of assemblage whereby publishers produced black-letter ballad sheets, freely reprinting and often cannibalizing their own prior publications so as to offer fresh versions or combinations of a ballad's constituent elements.\" (Journal of American Folklore) \"Drawing on formidable experience with gathering, editing, teaching, thinking about, and writing about ballads, Patricia Fumerton has produced a comprehensive synthesis of all the scholarly work on broadsides that has been done to date. Her book will be the starting point for all future research on the subject.\" (Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive presentation and examination of a popular seventeenth-century genre: the English broadside ballad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fugitive—individual elements migrated freely from one broadside to another—some 11,000 to 12,000 of these artifacts pre-1701 survive, though many others have undoubtedly been lost. Since 2003, Patricia Fumerton and a team of associates at the University of California, Santa Barbara have been finding, digitizing, cataloging, and recording these materials to create the English Broadside Ballad Archive.\u003cbr\u003e In this magisterial and long-awaited volume, Fumerton presents a rich display of the fruits of this work. She tracks the fragmentary assembling and disassembling of two unique extant editions of one broadside ballad and examines the loose network of seventeenth-century ballad collectors who archived what were essentially ephemeral productions. She pays particular attention to Samuel Pepys, who collected and bound into five volumes more than 1,800 ballads, and whose preoccupations with black-letter print, gender, and politics are reflected in and extend beyond his collecting practices. Offering an extensive and expansive reading of an extremely popular and sensational ballad that was printed at least 37 times before 1701, Fumerton highlights the ballad genre's ability to move audiences across time and space. In a concluding chapter, she looks to Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e to analyze the performative potential ballads have in comparison with staged drama.\u003cbr\u003e A broadside ballad cannot be \"read\" without reading it in relation to its images and its tune, Fumerton argues. To that end, \u003ci\u003eThe Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e features more than 80 illustrations and directs its readers to a specially constructed online archive where they can easily access 48 audio files of ballad music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Audio Tracks Website and Citation Conventions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Critical and Theoretical Parts: Moving, Assemblage, Publics, and Tactics\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Assembling by Disassembling: Archives, Databases, and Ballad Bits\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Accessing the Artifact, Now and Then\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Random Tactical Hits\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Remembering by Dismembering: Black Letter, Calligraphy, and Print History\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Network of Black-Letter Broadside Ballad Collectors\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Passing Present of Black Letter and Calligraphy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. From Networks to Publics: Samuel Pepys\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Pepys and the Making of Gendered Publics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Pepys and the Making of Political Publics\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Diachronic and Synchronic Ballad Publics: Crossing Society, History, and Space\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Moving Violations of \"The Lady and the Blackamoor\"\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Limits of the Shakespearean Stage: Ballading \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Sources for Music Notations\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559229649176,"sku":"9780812252316","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-broadside-ballad-in-early-modern-england-moving-media-tactical-publics-hardback-9780812252316","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}