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The oldest preserved Swedish broadside ballad, printed in 1583. A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
[1] One of the most renowned Swedish troubadours of the 20th century was Evert Taube (1890–1976). He established himself as a performing artist in 1920 and toured Sweden for about three decades. He is best known for songs about sailors, ballads about Argentina, and songs about the Swedish countryside. [2] Ole Paus
Sveriges Medeltida Ballader (SMB) is a scholarly edition which compiles, in principle, all of the known Swedish medieval (traditional) ballads in existence, including those from Swedish-speaking parts of Finland. [1]
Svenska fornsånger ("Old Swedish Songs") is a three-volume collection of Swedish folk songs compiled by Adolf Ivar Arwidsson and published in 1834, 1837, and 1842, respectively. The first two volumes consist mainly of folk ballads , while the third contains mainly singing games .
Boldt has also released one album, Broadside Ballads, as a solo artist independently of the band, in 2015. [4] Two further albums, Broadside Ballads Volume II in 2020 and Broadside Ballads Volume III in 2024, were released as Deep Dark Woods albums.
The Broadside Tapes 1, alternatively known as Broadside Ballads, Vol. 14, was a compilation of demo recordings done by Phil Ochs for Broadside magazine in the early-to-late 1960s. Of the sixteen songs that appeared, ranging from the humorous ("The Ballad of Alferd Packer") to the depressing ("The Passing of My Life"), all were new to listeners.
Carl Michael Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish ballad tradition and a powerful influence in Swedish music, known for his 1790 Fredman's Epistles and his 1791 Fredman's Songs. [1] A solo entertainer, he played the cittern, accompanying himself as he performed his songs at the royal court. [2] [3] [4]
The ballad was first published in 1877 as a folk song of the Södermanland region (recorded in Lunda parish, Nyköping Municipality). [1] A variant from Näshulta parish, Eskilstuna Municipality, published in the same collection in 1882, had the title Skogsjungfruns frieri ("The Courting of the Wood-nymph", a skogsjungfru or skogsnufva being a female wood-nymph or fairy). [2]