This definition can be applied also to songs composed self-consciously within, or with reference to, the traditional generic conventions.
Within ballads, the "event song" is dedicated to narrating a particular event, and the murder ballad is a type of event song in which the event is a murder. The term ballad, applied to traditional or folk music, means a narrative song. The term refers to the content, and may be applied to traditional ballads, part of oral culture. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events of a murder, often including the lead-up and/or aftermath. Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. ( December 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įngland, lowland Scotland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Germany, in the middle ages, and Ireland
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