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in village squares for up to a penny, meaning almost everyone could afford this cheap form of entertainment. In the seventeenth century, people called "Stationers" printed and publish in the same place. Stationers had great control over what was printed. If a printer was
Protestant or Catholic, they would publish broadsides in favor of their beliefs. This worked the same for political beliefs.
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Although the broadsides occasionally printed traditional 'rural' ballads, the bulk of them were of urban origin, written by the journalistic hacks of the day to cover such news as a robbery or a hanging, to moralize, or simply to offer entertainment. In their diversity they covered all the duties of
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England and Scotland, only survive as broadsides. Among the topics of broadside ballads were love, religion, drinking-songs, legends, and early journalism, which included disasters, political events and signs, wonders and prodigies. Generally broadside ballads included only the lyrics, often with
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helped the broadsides to become so popular. This new technology helped printers to produce these ballads cheaply and in mass quantities. Historian Adrian Johns explains the printing process as well as how and where people of this time bought ballads. The ballads retailed on the streets of London or
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from the fourteenth and fifteenth century. These were narrative poems that had combined with French courtly romances and
Germanic legends that were popular at the King's court, as well as in the halls of lords of the realm. By the seventeenth century, minstrelsy had evolved into ballads whose authors
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Fumerton and Gerrini show just how popular broadsides had been in early modern England: the ballads printed numbered in the millions. The ballads did not stay just in London but spread to the English countryside. Owing to the printing press, publishing large
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illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in
Britain, Ireland and North America because they are easy to produce and are often associated with one of the most important forms of traditional music from these
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was common, as this was thought to heighten the dramatic impact. The verses themselves would be based on the rhythms of various traditional airs that were in common circulation, sometimes credited, occasionally with the melody line printed. This gave the verses shape and substance and helped to
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process of oral transmission. In contrast broadside ballads often lacked their epic nature, tended not to possess their artistic qualities and usually dealt with less consequential topics. However, confusingly many 'traditional' ballads, as defined particularly by the leading collectors,
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in city streets and at fairs or by balladeers, who sang the songs printed on their broadsides in an attempt to attract customers. In
Britain broadsides began to decline in popularity in the seventeenth century as initially chapbooks and later bound books and
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in London attempted to force registration of all ballads and some 2,000 were recorded between then and 1600, but, since they were easy to print and distribute, it is likely that far more were printed. Scholars often distinguish between the earlier
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wrote on a variety of topics. The authors could then have their ballads printed and distributed. Printers used a single piece of paper known as a broadside, hence the name broadside ballads. It was common for ballads to have crude
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