#ballads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ballads, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Rose & the Briar - Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad" is a collection of essays on #ballads and what they tell us about America, edited by Sean Wilentz & Greil Marcus, incl an essay on #DollyParton 's "Down from Dover" by Eric Weisbard 🥀
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Broadside pastiche of the song 'Bonny Dundee' by Sir Water Scott (1771-1832) a romantic celebration of the Jacobite general John Graham of Claverhouse. This attacks corruption in Dundee's burgh council. The provost - head of the council - is lampooned for being a tax-dodger, and a bully to the ordinary worker.
https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=16355The Bailies of Bonnie Dundee
- John Lowden Macartney (1904)
(Air, The Bonnets o’ Bonnie Dundee)
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"He Wasn't Man Enough" is a song by American singer #ToniBraxton. It was written by #RodneyDarkchildJerkins, #FredJerkinsIII, #LaShawnDaniels, and #HarveyMasonJr for her third studio album, #TheHeat (2000), while production was helmed by the former. "He Wasn't Man Enough" is an uptempo R&B song that differs from Braxton's previous #ballads. The song was released by #LaFaceRecords on February 29, 2000, as the #leadSingle from the album.
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Hey, have you ever tried?
Really reaching out, for the other side..If you wonder what this song is leading to? 🎶
I wanna 🎵 Make It With You 🎵
#NowPlaying #NSR Bread #Ballads
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"He Wasn't Man Enough" is a song by American singer #ToniBraxton. It was written by #RodneyDarkchildJerkins, #FredJerkinsIII, #LaShawnDaniels, and #HarveyMasonJr for her third studio album, #TheHeat (2000), while production was helmed by the former. "He Wasn't Man Enough" is an uptempo R&B song that differs from Braxton's previous #ballads. The song was released by #LaFaceRecords on February 29, 2000, as the #leadSingle from the album.
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all in the merry month of may – At Home
#Ballads #Folk #clawhammer #dulcimer #folklore #traditionalfolk #TraverseCity
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
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"You'll See" is a song by American singer #Madonna from her #ballads compilation, #SomethingToRemember (1995). She wrote and produced the song with Canadian musician #DavidFoster. "You'll See" was released on October 23, 1995, by #MaverickRecords as the #leadSingle from the album. An #acoustic #pop ballad, "You'll See" features instrumentation from #percussion, #tremolo guitar and piano, while lyrically it speaks of independence after the end of a love affair.
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Letters from Mars - CRASH
"The debut collection from Letters from Mars is engineered to CRASH onto the music scene, unleashing Indie Pop with Rock, Folk, and Punk influences set to evolve in future letters."
#alternative #indiepop #indierock #poppunk #emotional #folkpop #energetic #ballads #music
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Crosscurrents Music – Set to the Music
#Ballads #Folk #maritime #maritimefolk #traditional #womens #Boston
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
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Letters from Mars - Love, Mars
"Love, Mars is a concept album about the cycle of LOVE & CHAOS people often find themselves trapped in"
#rock #indie #indierock #altrock #emotional #poprock #lovesong #ballads #music
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Their version of the Four Strong Winds song is a lifelong fave of mine 💗 Johnny Cash also listed this track as one of his most influential songs of all time.
Four Strong Winds · The Chad Mitchell Trio (1963)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1y0ilB-18Some of you younger folks may be more familiar with Neil Young's version of this song.
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Crosscurrents Music – From Boston Harbor
#Ballads #Folk #maritime #maritimefolk #traditional #womens #Boston
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
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“When I write I am not thinking of an audience. I just sort of get caught up in the ballad... to me poetry is a terrific force. If you don't write for its own sake, you are not a writer.”
Five poems being read by Helen Adam
7/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0m3bskuVk
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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In a house by a river that lamented as it ran,
Lived a father, and his daughter, and the dog-headed man…—Helen Adam, “A Tale Best Forgotten”
from TO GO INTO THE WOODS, by Norman Finkelstein (University of Michigan Press, 2023)6/7
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/To-Go-Into-the-Words2
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“Helen Adam is a poet’s poet, for it is in her own tribe that she has been most read and praised, despite her long history of public readings”
—Norman Finkelstein, in his chapter on Helen Adam in TO GO INTO THE WOODS (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
5/7
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/To-Go-Into-the-Words2
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“Adam’s embrace of the supernatural… is made relevant to a contemporary struggle over gender inequalities”
—Cindy McMann, “Helen Adam & the Feminist Gothic Imagination”, IRISH JOURNAL OF GOTHIC & HORROR STUDIES 6, July 2009
4/7
https://irishgothicjournal.net/issue6/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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“She was a poet out of time, stretched. Out of a dark visceral realm. Every cell of her body wrote ballads, every cell of her body chanted them… She could scare the pants off God”
—Alexia Marmara, “Helen Adam & the Grue: Collage, Rhyme, & the Occult Imagination”
3/7
https://awomensthing.org/blog/helen-adam/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #poetry #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry #collage #visualart
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“The story of Helen Adam is a tumble down the rabbit hole… Helen brought witchcraft, horror ballads and camp attitude into the beatnik scene in San Francisco, to the dirty punk New York of the 70s and the queer Berlin of the 80s”
Helen Adam: Daydream of Darkness is a forthcoming documentary. Watch the trailer:
2/7
https://www.pickypictures.se/adaydreamofdarkness
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #NewYork #punk #Berlin #queer #poetry
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“Helen Adam marched through her life to the beat of her own drum”
—Kristin PrevalletHelen Adam (1909–1993) – fey child prodigy (published by Faber & Faber at 14) & daughter of the manse; bardic matriarch of the San Francisco Beats; Worm Queen – was born #OTD, 2 Dec.
A 🎂🧵
1/7
https://caesuramag.org/posts/kristin-prevallet-poems-by-helen-adam
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #supernatural #ballads #SanFrancisco #BeatPoets #poetry
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Letters from Mars - CRASH
"The debut collection from Letters from Mars is engineered to CRASH onto the music scene, unleashing Indie Pop with Rock, Folk, and Punk influences set to evolve in future letters."
#alternative #indiepop #indierock #poppunk #emotional #folkpop #energetic #ballads #music
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T.C. Elliott – Ballads and the Blues
#Americana #Ballads #Blues #Folk #FolkRock #Hickabilly #Rock #Roots #Columbia
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
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"Who's Holding Donna Now" is a song recorded by #DeBarge for the #Gordy label. It was their second consecutive top 10 Pop hit in the U. S. after the release of "#RhythmOfTheNight". After recording the successful dance single, the group returned to their more comfortable standard of #ballads. Relying on an outside producer, outside songwriters, and background vocalists #RichardPage and #SteveGeorge, the song was recorded.
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Explore "My Teacher," a song by Ali Taha Alnobani. Dive into its lyrical power and the innovative use of AI in its creation.
#digitalart #music #experimental #lyrical #ballad #PoetryInMusic #abstract #experimentalfolk #experimentalmusic #experimentalpop #experimentalrock #poetic #music #pop #ballads #romanticmusic #soulful #ballad
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A searing critique of media and conflict, "News Again" is a powerful track that exposes the hypocrisy of power and the tragic, unending violence cycle.
#ballads #experimental #abstract #antiwar #songs #cinematic #rock #conceptualmusic #dark #emotional #experimentalfolk #experimentalpop #experimentalrock #lyrics #orchestral #political #truthinmusic
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Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”
“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong #music
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Letters from Mars - CRASH
"The debut collection from Letters from Mars is engineered to CRASH onto the music scene, unleashing Indie Pop with Rock, Folk, and Punk influences set to evolve in future letters."
#alternative #indiepop #indierock #poppunk #emotional #folkpop #energetic #ballads #music