What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism

by Adrian Daub

Over the course of the 19th century, ballads proliferated in German-speaking Europe in a truly remarkable range of contexts. Audiences were of course likely encounter balladry in the volumes of Goethe and Schiller, in various anthologies or illustrated editions. But they were just as likely to come across objects billed as ballads in recitation evenings by popular actors, in song-settings by Schubert and Loewe, in piano pieces by Chopin, in the opera...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190885491
• ISBN13: 9780190885496
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"