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| | Humane Borders |
 | | His earnest vocals and piercing lyrics are framed by spare, acoustic arrangements that feature guitar, violin, cello and accordion, keeping the focus on the provocative poetry. | | | Music for the program will include two ballads performed by Eric Holland, a bilingual singer and composer from Phoenix, who promises these songs will put smiles on listeners' faces. | | | Eric's newly released CD titled "Without Borders" resounds the rich legacy of la frontera in this collection of soul- searching, self-penned themes that explore the trials of immigrants in the Southwest. |
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http://www.humaneborders.org/news/newsletter_0405.html
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane |
| | BALLADS: REMEBERING JOHN COLTRANE was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album and for Best Engineered Album. | | | With Ballads-- Remembering John Coltrane --her most intimate and daring recording project to date -- Karrin Allyson at once honors Coltrane's inescapable, lyrical influence, while making each song uniquely her own. | | | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=52264132
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| | Ballads reflect social history - Daily Lobo - Culture |
| | The earliest ballads were sung a cappella, but later ballads were accompanied by the guitar, still the most commonly heard instrument on corrido recordings. | | | Corridos have been recorded on every sound medium invented including wax cylinders, acetate disks, vinyl disks, wire, magnetic tape, CDs and MP3s, all of which will be displayed at the exhibit. | | | "Therefore we have a 400-year record of popular ballads. |
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http://www.dailylobo.com/news/2004/07/29/Culture/Ballads.Reflect.Social.History-702095.shtml
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| | U.S.-Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Collections |
| | Provides digitized documents, photographs, manuscripts, video and audio recordings, and exhibits depicting the cultures that have developed along the Mexico-Texas border. | | | Includes essays, photo exhibits, music excerpts on Real Audio, liner notes, and information on the Arhoolie Records label. | | | Provides information on the history, cultural significance, and artistry of the conjunto music from the Mexico-U.S. border region. |
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http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/us-mexico-border-issues.htm
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| | Borderers |
| | Mike's website (at www.kyloerecords.co.uk) describes the CD as: 'a collection of recently recorded ballads, songs and tunes from the Scottish/English Borders. | | | George Brown adds some lively tin whistle playing between songs with Parnell's March/The Marquis of Lorne and The Belfast Hornpipe later on track 21, followed by Jock Anderson, a retired shepherd, with the first of his three bothy style songs. | | | Like them, this one is primarily intended for the 'home market' - where there's still a deal of music to be found, and an interested audience. |
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http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/borderer.htm
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| | Across the Borders by The Battlefield Band: Album Music Downloads |
| | The Battlefield Band : Albums : Across the Borders : Similar Albums | | | All of the albums that Sharon Shannon recorded for Green Linnet in the '90s are worth owning, but if you've never experienced the pleasures of her neo-Celtic experiments, Spellbound would be the most logical starting point. | | | Among the 13 cuts are several previously unreleased tracks, as well as familiar songs covering a host of styles, including contemporary ballads penned by Dougie... |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/207547/similar.html
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| | Legends - Ballads and Broadsides |
| | The Ballad page at Allen Garvin's Faerie Lore and Literature includes several Child "fairy" ballads, in all variants, transcribed with their notes. | | | Voller provides links to the Child ballads in The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, which includes a searchable database of more than 5,000 folk songs. | | | The Child Ballads Project, an index to recorded sources of the Child Ballads and their variants. |
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http://legends.dm.net/ballads
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock EM-EZ |
| | Lake was a good enough bassist and guitarist to keep up with Emerson and Palmer, but his strength was singing ballads such as "Lucky Man" from their self-titled debut album, "From the Beginning" from Trilogy, and "Still You Turn Me On" from Brain Salad Surgery. | | | Not difficult to listen to at all, in fact it borders on what I would call "easy listening", though the experimentation with ethnic sounds and harmonies, spacey sections and rock drumming does give this band a progressive edge. | | | While their record label released a live album, En Obras (to be honest, a very poor recording), Espíritu decided to move onward as a quartet, with guitarist Favrot assuming the role of lead vocalist. |
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http://www.gepr.net/em.html
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| | CD Baby: PANGEO: Northern Borders |
| | Some of the tunes we chose exist on both sides of the Greek border and that is part of their charm, reminding us of cultural connection in stormy times. | | | With a taste for old-style dance music they are equally at home playing ballads from the mountains of Epiros in Greece, or lively tunes from the Bulgarian border area. | | | Pangeo is a five member group based in Seattle drawn together by a passion for the music of Greece and the Balkans. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pangeo?cdbaby=2bdf7574fe99ff090f32576bdfab856a
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| | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ministrelsy, by His Grace'S Much Obliged. |
| | Hence, as remarked by Lesley, the music and songs of the borders were of a military nature, and celebrated the valour and success of their predatory expeditions. | | | The shepherds also, and aged persons, in the recesses of the border mountains, frequently remember and repeat the warlike songs of their fathers. | | | 157); "Dick o' the Cow, that mad demi-lance northern borderer, who plaid his prizes with the lord Jockey so bravely."—Nashe's Have with you to Saffren-Walden, or Gabriell Harvey's Hunt is up.—1596, 4to. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/2/7/4/12742/12742-h/12742-h.htm
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| | Elspeth Smellie |
| | 1996 'ECHOES OF THE ETTRICK' for Borders TV. | | | 1992 Rideout Theatre Co: composed the music for BORDER TAPESTRY. | | | 1993 Became part of the newly-formed band O'ER THE BORDER, playing at the |
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http://www.weddings.co.uk/music/smellie.htm
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| | abc7news.com: Tracing The History Of The Corrido |
| | Corridos sin Fronteras — Ballads Without Borders is the theme that brings the story about Mexican history as told from one generation to the next through song. | | | From the smallest villages deep in the countryside of Mexico to the largest cities in the country, the corrido is a history book written in music and lyrics. | | | It has been part of music and folklore north of the border for generations, and now through its exhibit, the Smithsonian Institution wants to emphasize the importance and the impact of corridos, especially here in the Bay Area. |
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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/052802_assign7_corridos.html
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| | Border ballads |
| | Border Ballads A collection of lyrics from the Scottish Borders with historical notes. | | | Francis J. Child Ballads Includes a biography, list of ballads, lyrics, tune information, MIDI files and links. | | | Lyrical Ballads "This html e-text has been prepared by Richard Bear from the original edition of Lyrical Ballads, the Bristol imprint of 1798." |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Border_ballads.html
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Ballads [Remaster] |
| | BALLADS was a timely reminder of the tenor saxophonist's matchless lyricism and exquisite tone..." | | | He even managed to impress the moldy fig who penned the original liner notes to BALLADS. | | | On "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "What's New" he displays a glorious tone, achieving a remarkably human vocal timbre in the upper registers, indulging in more pronounced harmonic variations, as the Tyner-Garrison-Jones rhythm axis subtly shifts gears to accomodate these intricacies. |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=15133955
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| | Borders tradition |
| | There are a series of albums on the Borders tradition. | | | Festivals like Newcastleton and Rothbury are a good start, if you want to hear a lot of Border tunes and songs. | | | One good fiddle album is Borders Tradtions Volume One "Borders Fiddles" featuring among others Wattie Robson :-) -also Bob Hobkirk, Jimmy Nagle and more. |
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http://www.footstompin.com/forum?threadid=15377
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Songs of the heart |
| | The musical, featuring live music and a traditional accordion player, tells the story of a grandfather who looks to pass on family traditions to his reluctant granddaughter. | | | "It will take two or three generations to complete the process," said Valdez, whose 32-year-old son Kinán will direct San Diego Repertory Theatre's "Corridos Remix: A Musical Fusion of Ballads Beyond Borders." | | | "Corridos Remix: A Musical Fusion of Ballads Beyond Borders" |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050421-9999-lz1w21valdez.html
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| | The Troublesome Border - Striding Edge Video & DVD |
| | The songs of the Border Reivers on a CD featuring Maddy Prior which captures the turbulent spirit of the Borderlands. | | | The land of the Border Reivers explored by George MacDonald Fraser and Eric Robson. | | | Alastair Moffat takes us on a journey through 5,000 turbulent years into the crucible where the United Kingdom was forged. |
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http://www.stridingedge.com/2005/borders.html
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| | Singing Voices Create Harmony Across Borders |
| | The songs were in various styles, such as rock and roll, Japanese enka, ballads, singing accompanied by a musical instrument, and so on. | | | Ten of these poems were chosen after two days of intensive screening and the songs were performed on August 5th at Nara Prefecture's International Cultural Hall. |
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http://www.disabilityworld.org/01-03_02/arts/voices.shtml
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| | James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd, Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys, Scottish Borders UK |
| | They began a friendship that was to last, despite many tensions, throughout their lives. | | | Aged seven, he began to work on the lowest rung of the farming ladder - as a cowherd. | | | there are many queer stories about hersel', but O she had been a grand singer o' old songs and ballads. |
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http://www.ettrickyarrow.bordernet.co.uk/history/hogg-shepherd.html
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| | New York City Area Bluegrass Music Scene |
| | At a Homegrown String Band show you will be treated to the sounds of fiddle, guitar, mandolin, clawhammer banjo, banjo uke, dulcimer, and jawharp, as well as some fancy flatfoot dancing. | | | So fasten your seatbelts and hold on to your hats as the Homegrown String Band takes you on a rollicking ride through the sounds of American music, from the driving rhythms of old-time dance tunes to the mournful sounds of mountain ballads and blues. | | | With music ranging from fiddle tunes to topical ballads to western swing, his style has been described as ‘Arlo Guthrie-meets-Doc Watson’. |
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http://banjoben.com/directory.htm
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| | Legends - Shake Loose the Border |
| | The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George Macdonald Fraser [HarperCollins trade paperback ISBN: 0002727463]. | | | They made him swear it again a few years later for good measure, but I suspect it still didn't take. | | | The only one of mine that I can lay a name to is one John Rutherford of Knowe in Roxburghshire near the English-Scottish border, who subscribed solemn assurances in the year of grace 1553 that he would uphold "the gude peace" of Scotland and of England. |
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http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/borders.html
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| | Web site of the week: Corridos Sin Fronteras (Ballads Without Borders) |
| | Write (our favorite section) allows visitors to listen to an original corrido and use the music and structure to compose their own ballad. | | | Web site of the week: Corridos Sin Fronteras (Ballads Without Borders) | | | Listen, contains more than twenty narrative ballads, with stanza by stanza Spanish and English translations of the lyrics. |
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http://www.designinteract.com/sow_d/062402
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| | Political Ballads (and stuff like that) -- CowtownPosse |
| | Other suggestions: Common Man - by the Blasters, a number of songs by Creedence, the Clash & by Patti Smith would fit (for the rightwingers you could put on "Ballad of the Green Berets") and internationally, just about any Fela song would do. | | | Political Ballads (and stuff like that) -- CowtownPosse |
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http://www.artofthemix.org/findamix/Getcontents.asp?strMixId=59543
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| | Dhaani: music with flexible borders |
| | There is ample melodious plucking and strumming on Dhaani, brought to you from across the border with a rich fullness and simplicity that music seems to be missing of late. | | | Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia are back with another backpack of laidback heartbreak ditties and ambient romantic ballads, full of lush instrumentation and tender quasi-nasal voices that sing of freedom, friendship, open roads and scenic drives. | | | If nobody has figured out why this duo calls itself Strings, let it just be said that there is no pleasure like a guitar that knows its chords. |
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http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/jun/05dhaani.htm
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| | Border ballad |
| | There may be a repeating motif, but there is no "chorus" as in most pop songs. | | | It also has a stellar tradition of balladry, such that a whole group of songs exists that are often called " border ballads ", because they were collected in that region. | | | Border ballads, like all traditional ballads, were traditionally sung unaccompanied. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/border_ballad
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| | United States-Mexico Border |
| | The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, a "symbol of separation" in Texas, constitutes more than half the length of the border. | | | They formerly made the dolls but now buy them, along with other traditional crafts, from other migrants in Tijuana, who come from the western Mexican states of Jalisco and Guanajuato as well as from Guatemala. | | | Older, established communities populate the string of small towns on both sides of the river along the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Valley to Laredo/Nuevo Laredo. |
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http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/bord/intro.html
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| | Words Without Borders -> Power of the Powerless |
| | His lyrics come from language that spans a wide band: Cultural Revolution slogans, modern propaganda, the jingles of commercialization, and rough-hewn Beijing street slang. | | | His art comes out of an eclectic collage of traditions: classical music, gauzy Chinese pop ballads, Western rock, and most recently rap and hip-hop. | | | Chinese rock star Cui Jian begins his song “The 90s” with the line: “Words are not precise already—can’t express this world clearly.” And in the clarity of that expression, he voices the sentiment of a generation of Chinese youth: China’s inexorable lurch into the twenty-first century made language as dizzying as change itself. |
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http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article.php?lab=Cui
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| | The Scotsman - Scotland - Following in Scott's footsteps |
| | It will be important to make contact with people who remember poetry and songs which were performed in the days of village concerts and kirk soirées." | | | Scott was fascinated as he listened to his grandmother Barbara Scott and his Aunt Jenny recite works that could have been composed when Robert the Bruce was alive and were adapted by successive balladeers. | | | They include The Broken Bowl, thought to date from the 1850s, Mrs Paxtonâs Shop (pre-First World War) and the Ballad of Brundenlaws, another early 20th century "classic". |
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=88402004
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| | Border Ballads Home |
| | Finally I hope to include audio files of the ballads sung by a variety of singers who are accepted specialists in this field. | | | Hi if you have found this page by accident you are welcome to view the contents as they stand, but please bear in mind that this is very much a work in progress at this stage. | | | My intention is firstly to upload all the Child variants and Minstrelsy texts of the border ballads. |
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http://www.borderballads.gallowayfolk.co.uk
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| | BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - Scotland - Borders - The Border Reivers - Article Page 2 |
| | They also had a disregard for authority, and delighted in outwitting the Wardens on both sides of the border. | | | The illness severely affected Walter’s left leg, and he was forced to spend much of his time indoors, where he listened to tales of the Borders told to him by his grandfather and aunt. | | | Borderers usually rode in family parties, in numbers that averaged between 12 and 50 men, although men could go out alone or in large scale raids of up to 2 or 3 thousand, depending on the size of the target. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/scotland/borders/article_2.shtml
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| | Ballads |
| | They form the basis of this list, plus extra words from Reed (marked +). | | | But through the word 'ballad' may derive from French, the format is distinctive to the north of England, with the proviso that ballads with a similar quatrain form, rhyme and rhythm are recorded in Denmark. | | | The ballad form is found from Yorkshire to the Scottish Lowlands; it is hard to believe - that as we have them - they can date to much before the 15th century; examples were in print in the 16th century. |
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http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/ballads.htm
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| | Kalevala |
| | The material, old Finnish ballads and lyrical songs depicting "the sons of Kalevala", were published in two editions, first in 1835 with 35 cantos, and the enlarged edition with 50 cantos in 1849. | | | Between 1831 and 1835 Lönnrot undertook three collection journeys to Archangel Karelia and arranged his materials into an epic whole. | | | Lönnrot's aim was to arrange the mythological and other poems into a single volume, comparable to the Icelandic Edda, and tell about the past heroes like Homer did in Iliad and Odyssey. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kalevala.htm
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| | Medieval, Renaissance and Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts Art, Graphics and Clip Art |
| | Illuminated Manuscripts for Word and the DOC format. | | | While graphics borders exist as completed elements, the Volumes 1, 3, 4 and 8 CDs also make available individual files of all the elemental parts (corners, end caps, bands, symmetric centers, etc.) so they can be reorganized in different ways and reproportioned for your own borders, pages headers and footers, vertical and horizontal rulers. | | | The title page with the border, all the information, the date and the printer devise is the product of the sixteenth century. |
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http://www.alfredom.com
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Burns, Robert |
| | His collecting, adapting and writing of songs proceeded apace, helped now by his wife’s fine singing voice and rich store of local ballads; and visitors to Ellisland are still shown the walk on which he composed Tam o’ Shanter. | | | After spending the summer of 1787 travelling in the Borders and the Highlands, Burns returned to Edinburgh, where he became interested in a project of an engraver named James Johnson to compile a “Scots Musical Museum” or comprehensive anthology of Scottish folk song. | | | The following year he took the post of excise officer, which brought him and his family a measure of financial security; and for a few years enjoyed an active and productive life. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=659
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| | P.O.V. - Borders . Border Talk. Elijah Wald PBS |
| | For the smugglers, the Mexico-U.S. border is a barrier, but it is also what makes their business possible. | | | To me, there is always something magical in crossing a new border, wondering what it will be like on the other side. | | | The US-Mexico border has a rather special status in terms of hatred, because it is the most drastic divide between the first and third world, and the ability to cross that line can mean the difference between unending misery and hope. |
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http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/borders/talk/dialogue002_ew_6q.html
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| | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border |
| | He now welcomed the idea of publishing a volume devoted entirely to ballads, a genre rendered newly fashionable by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798). | | | Scott argued that the ballad was, by definition, a fluid form, to which each interpreter gave his or her own stamp. | | | Laidlaw showed Scott a copy of 'Auld Maitland', a ballad Scott had heard of but so far never seen. |
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http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/poetry/minstrelsy.html
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| | A Tour of the Scottish Borders |
| | These were cruel and brutal times and in utter contrast to the peaceful and prosperous times beforehand when the ancient counties of Mid-Britain lived harmoniously side by side. | | | Local poets and writers used their daily encounters and experiences to write stories and ballads inspired by every aspect of Borders life, from the shepherds, supernatural folklore, love and romance to the plundering and pillage by the Reivers. | | | The people of the Borders region today retain a strong-willed independence and distinctive character borne out of the determination to preserve their lands. |
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http://www.rampantscotland.com/visit/bldev_visit_borders.htm
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| | Michael Brander (musical arrangements by Jimmie Macgregor), Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads |
| | Since most of these ballads came down through Scotland's rich oral tradition, the author provides lyrical and musical variants when important, as well as footnotes on lesser known Scottish terms or words written in the English/Scottish/Gaelic dialect known as broad Scots. | | | Michael Brander (musical arrangements by Jimmie Macgregor), Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads | | | Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads is a mouthful, even for a Scot, and the concept is a little vague if you are impulse-buying this book. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/scottishballads.html
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| | Around the Mall |
| | César Chávez, you are a man who speaks up"), the ballads are powerful meditations on honor and bravery, passion and generosity. | | | As the next stop on a three-year, ten-city tour, the exhibition will remain at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose, California, through August 11. |
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http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/jun02/mall.html
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| | BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - Scotland - Borders - The Border Reivers |
| | From the 13th Century through to the beginning of the 17th, the border lands between England and Scotland were home to the Reivers, lawless gangs who survived by plundering livestock, but who also engaged in other practises such as kidnapping and racketeering. | | | Look back into the past using the Legacies' archives. | | | The lives and deeds of the Reivers were celebrated in the famous Border Ballads, popularised by Sir Walter Scott in the 18th Century. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/scotland/borders
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| | The Border Ballads |
| | The history of the Borderland has also inspired later writers and some of their works are also to be found below. | | | The Scottish Borders during the 16th Century is known as a place where life was brutal and often tragically short. | | | However, from this desolate wasteland emerged a tradition of ballads, many of which survive today and some of which are reproduced below. |
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http://www.gaddgedlar.com/ballads.htm
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| | Tournaments Illuminated - Index of Featured Articles |
| | "Ballade in Praise of Levity" by Esperanza Halevi of Venice | | | "Ballade: The Sunflower" by Dorigen of the Grey Gate | | | "Ballade Upon the Poets of Atenveldt" by Thumas na Leabhar O'Conaire |
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| | History News Network |
| | To compare any singer to Um Kulthoum was the biggest compliment a singer could receive, especially in the fifties (this is before Arab rock had been invented). | | | Afifa Iskander deserved it, not because of her overpowering voice nor her magnetic presence (factors which had made Um Kulthoum a star) but because of the warmth of her personality and the astonishing way she sang Iraqi ballads and made them her own. | | | Eventually this would be called smuggling and contraband, and be viewed as anti-state activity deletrious to the law of the land. |
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http://hnn.us/blogs/24.html
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| | Scottish literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Scott's work is not exclusively concerned with Scotland, but his popularity in England and further abroad did much to form the modern stereotype of Scottish culture. | | | In Scotland, after the 17th century, anglicisation increased, though Lowland Scots was still spoken by the vast majority of the population. | | | The early 17th century saw the emergence of the Scottish |
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| | Barony of Cowdenknowes, Scotland |
| | This site also contains information on some of the other well known characters of the time, including " Auld Wat of Harden " and " Kinmont Willie ". | | | It was immortalized in the old Scottish Folksong " the Broome o' the Cowdenknowes ", the "Broome" being a beautiful golden bracken or Gorse which stays in bloom most of year and can be seen in the photograph above. | | | he region of Cowdenknowes is just south of Earlston in the Scottish Borders ( Map). |
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| | Legends - Ballads and Broadsides - Tam Lin |
| | --> The Music of Faery, an essay by Terri Windling on ballads and the novels based on them, at The Endicott Studio | | | Tam Lin, a prose story by Jesse Kirchner, at The Transformation Story Archive. | | | In many ways, it is the canonical ballad. |
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http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/tamlin.html
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| | Some British Ballads - Rackham Arthur |
| | Five raised bands to the spine with 24kt gilt decorated compartments. | | | A beautiful book, presented in a matching slipcase. | | | This is a stunning example of Some Briitish Ballads by Arthur Rackham. |
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http://www.cheviotsbooks.com/si/000371.html
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| | Walter Scott - Free Online Library |
| | He gained fame as a poet with the publication of The Lay of the Last Minstrel in 1805, which made him the most popular writer of the period. | | | His interest in Scottish legends and history began early, when he lived on the Borders with his grandparents. | | | Scott’s first major work, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, appeared in 1802-03. |
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| | Earl Brand |
| | For a complete list of Child Ballads at this site see Francis J. Child Ballads. | | | This ballad is said to be an ancient story with a long oral tradition. | | | Variants and alternate titles include: Earl Bran, The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England's Daughter, The Douglas Tragedy, Lord Douglas, Lady Margaret and The Child of Ell. |
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