LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steve roud

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  • Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
    David Atkinson / Steve Roud
    In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers. This volume engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditi...
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    106,76 €

  • The Lore of the Playground
    Steve Roud
    From conkers to marbles from British Bulldog to tag not forgetting ’one potato two potato’ and ’eeny meeny miny mo’ The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation it emerges has had its own favourites - hoops and top...
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    24,90 €

  • The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions o
    Steve Roud
    Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it’s unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess...
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    28,44 €