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Stories from Songs
Ballads as Literary Fictions for Young Adults
 Gail de Vos

1-59158-424-8/978-1-59158-424-7

Description
Learn how real events evolved into folk stories and legends, developed into traditional folk ballads, and ultimately evolved into print formats, and been adapted to today's teen interests.

Reviews:
-"Stories from Songs is an impressively presented, informed and informative scholarly study that is an essential edition to academic library collections and appropriate for both students of Folk Music History and non-specialist general readers with an interest in learning from the background and development of the ballad as a source of information, ethics, cultural development, and social entertainment for teenagers and young adults." —Midwest Book Review
-"For storytellers, librarians, researchers and teachers in high schools and colleges who deal with folktales and ballads in their classrooms, De Vos (library and information studies, U. of Alberta-Edmonton) describes modern renditions of traditional ballads that might appeal to teenagers today. For each she sketches the plot, identifies alternative titles, traces its history, samples critical response over the years, and cites contemporary reworkings. The media she considers include novels, short stories, graphic novels, poetry, and of course recordings of the ballad itself. She and Anna E. Altman have produced two previous works that form a trilogy with this one." —Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Gail de Vos is an adjunct professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, where she teaches courses in storytelling and children's/young adult literature. She is also a storyteller, consultant, and author and co-author of several Libraries Unlimited storytelling books (e.g., Storytelling for Young Adults, Tales, Rumors and Gossip, New Tales for Old, and Tales Then and Now).
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