Sentences with phrase «century ballads»

The exhibition is titled after a medley of three 19th century ballads from the American Civil War, rearranged by Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley during his concerts in the 1970s.

Bethany Collins's America: A Hymnal (2017) employs a similar cut - and - paste technique, compiling scores for 100 different versions of the 19th - century ballad «My Country, ’ T is of Thee» to tell a story of US history through popular music and nationalistic expression.

For example, I greatly value the array of insights prompted by my post yesterday on the misadventures of the Arctic explorer John Franklin and the new version of the 19th - century ballad on his failed final expedition that I created with David Rothenberg.

Not exact matches

As Andrew Fletcher, an 18th century Scottish patriot, once boldly proclaimed, «If one were permitted to make all the ballads one need not care who should make the laws of a nation.»

Forest rights or customs were subject to negotiation, and generations of local and social history in England have contributed to that chronicle; it is a local and a popular endeavor going back to the Robin Hood ballads and including the twentieth century schools of social history.

The editors have carefully chosen something to appeal to everyone: anonymous murder ballads dating back centuries; the immaculately crafted first person monologues of Victorian poets Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy; Tony Barnstone's contemporary sonnets dedicated to pulp fiction themes; and Philip B. Williams's incendiary tale of a cross-dressing young man who guns down his parents.

In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard - boiled poems of twentieth - century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims - from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men - ever to be immortalized in verse.

Appearing in ballads as early as the fourteenth century, he's an enduring hero who offers up not only swashbuckling adventures but an admirable legacy, and he has turned up in folklore, television shows, and films alike (including one particularly formative animated feature).

In her gallery at Tate Britain there's nothing but three large black speakers out of which comes her voice singing a 16th - century Scottish ballad called «Lowlands» in three different parts, a piece she originally installed on the underside of three bridges in Glasgow.

In this work, the artist sings three slightly different versions of a sixteenth - century Scottish ballad titled Lowlands Away; a haunting lament about a man drowned at sea who returns to his lover to tell her of his death.

Singing variations of «Lowlands» a haunting 16th - century Scottish ballad which tells the tale of a drowned lover, the slightly different versions of the song could originally be heard from the three bridges of the Clyde in central Glasgow during the city's International Visual Arts Festival.

Her choices in music veer from 15th century Scottish laments, to historic Irish and American folk ballads, to more modern choices, such as Nirvana and The Velvet Underground.