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Ewan MacColl categorises and illustrates traditional ballads from the oral tradition of the sort which the Elizabethan populace would have heard under the headings which Professor Child made use of... in his definitive collection of such ballads.
Ewan MacColl categorises and illustrates traditional ballads from the oral tradition of the sort which the Elizabethan populace would have heard under the headings which Professor Child made use of... in his definitive collection of such ballads.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 29 |
| Recording date: | 1971-10-09 |
| First transmission date: | 12-08-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:03 |
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| Producer: | John Selwyn Gilbert |
| Contributor: | Ewan MacColl |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Ballad of Harlaw |
| Footage description: | In the first of this pair of programmes Ewan MacColl, who is both a song writer, a performer of traditional songs and a distinguished scholar, categorises and illustrates traditional ballads from the oral tradition of the sort which the Elizabethan populace would have heard under the headings which Professor Child made use of in his definitive collection of such ballads. The illustrations include excerpts from 'The Battle of Harlaw', 'Riddles Wisely Expounded', 'The Devil's Nine Questions', 'Clerk Colven', 'The Death of Queen Jane', 'Blow Away the Morning Dew' and 'The Puddy in the Well'. In studying or reading the literature of late Renaissance England it's a great temptation to concentrate on what has been called 'Hallmarked' literature and ignore everything except the output of the great poets of the period. Ewan MacColl's programmes are designed to illustrate and examine not the peaks of literary achievement but the everyday poetic material from which great poets drew occasional inspiration, and the people drew continual amusement and edification. |
| Master spool number: | TLN41FM220J |
| Production number: | TLN41FM220J |
| Available to public: | no |
