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Murder ballad
Fause Foodrage from The Book of British ballads (1842)
Stylistic origins
Ballad
Cultural origins
England, lowland Scotland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Germany, in the middle ages, and Ireland
Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events of a murder, often including the lead-up and/or aftermath. The term refers to the content, and may be applied to traditional ballads, part of oral culture.
Murderballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events...
MurderBallads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 on Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of...
event inspired a number of songs and other tributes including the murderballad "The Murder of the Lawson Family", which was originally recorded by the Carolina...
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...
Hendelman. The project uses the murderballad genre to explore American history, especially 19th-century America. In American Murder Song, Saar and Terrance play...
played the Narrator in Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway musical MurderBallad, for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding...
lyricist of "Mack the Knife" A Moritat is a medieval version of the murderballad performed by strolling minstrels. In The Threepenny Opera, the Moritat...
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a dystopian action-adventure novel written by the American author Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original...
the alternate to the leading role of Sara played by Kerry Ellis in MurderBallad, in a cast that also included Ramin Karimloo, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt...
The following are often-sung Irish folk ballads and folk songs. The songs are arranged by theme under the categories "Politics and soldiering" and "Non-political"...
"Rose Connelly" is a traditional Appalachian murderballad about a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover: he gave her wine, stabbed her,...
Olive W. Burt, American MurderBallads and their Stories, Oxford University Press, New York, 1958 Olive W. Burt, "MurderBallads of Mormondom", Western...
American murder victim who is remembered by a popular murderballad about her death. Omie Wise's death became the subject of a traditional American ballad. (Roud...
Hardy's second studio album The Mockingbird & the Crow. The song is a murderballad about a male protagonist killing an abuser. The idea for the song came...
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a Southern Gothic murderballad, written in 1972 by songwriter Bobby Russell and first recorded by his then-wife...
"Goodbye Earl", written by Dennis Linde, is a country murderballad. Initially recorded by the band Sons of the Desert for an unreleased album in the...
Appalachian murderballad. It is derived from the 19th-century Irish ballad "The Wexford Girl", itself derived from the earlier English ballad "The Bloody...
The Twisted Tale of a Christmas Crack-Whore (with Justin Bond) (2008) The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (with Nan Goldin) (2011) The Whore of Babylon (with...
"Stacker Lee: A partial investigation into the historicity of a Negro murderballad". Keystone Folklore Quarterly. 12: 187 and note. Retrieved March 20...
"The Twa Sisters" ("The Two Sisters") is a traditional murderballad, dating at least as far back as the mid 17th century. The song recounts the tale...
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