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Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads
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Inexpensive broadside ballads were the most ubiquitous literary form during this period, ranging from traditional love songs to didactic warnings about transgressive behaviour to journalistic accounts of contemporary events. Ballads were performed in the streets, purchased for a penny, and posted in public places
Title: Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads
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Inexpensive broadside ballads were the most ubiquitous literary form during this period, ranging from traditional love songs to didactic warnings about transgressive behaviour to journalistic accounts of contemporary events.
Ballads were performed in the streets, purchased for a penny, and posted in public places.
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