Sentence examples for street ballad from inspiring English sources
His masterpiece is undoubtedly "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," in the style and metre of the contemporary street ballad.
Recent standouts have included "Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story," a heartbreaking look at an Indonesian busker, and "Last Days of the Arctic," a profile of the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson full of magnificent images of the Arctic landscape and people.
Some of his best songs from the period are put-downs of a scorched-earth type: "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "It Ain't Me, Babe," "Positively 4th Street," "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Just Like a Woman"—not works that exude the usual pop sentiments.
Actresses, female acrobats or impersonators, and singers of arias or street ballads, were sanctioned by the Victorians.
From the 16th century until the end of the 19th century, broadsides, known also as street ballads, stall ballads, or slip songs, were a lively commodity, providing employment for a troop of hack poets.
Like other taboo subjects, it became the subject of jokes, street ballads and comically macabre poems by well-known writers, including Byron, Thackeray and W. S. Gilbert.
Later, the King is advised of his status beyond the Beltway: **{:.break one} ** Libels are cast against thee in the street; Ballads and rhymes made of thy overthrow.
Thomas had more than 300 broadsheets of street ballads bound in three volumes, published "to show what articles of this kind are in vogue with the vulgar at this time".
But in stitching the story together from ready-made popular airs and street ballads, John Gay not only succeeded in pricking the pomposity of Handelian grand opera, he also invented the jukebox musical.
On previous occasions I have bought CDs from a man with a fold-up piano, a group singing 17th-century street ballads, and a band playing didgeridoos and using assorted scrap metal as percussion.
