Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 on Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of...
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Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events...
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1846 and "The Killing Place", a metaphoric house of Cain where all murder ballads reside. Terrance and Saar met in Los Angeles in the early 2000s. According...
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Murder Ballad is a rock opera musical with music and lyrics by Juliana Nash, and book and lyrics by Julia Jordan. Murder Ballad centers around a young...
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The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...
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needed] In 1996 the band released Murder Ballads, their best-selling album to date. Centered on the subject of murder, the album includes a cover of the...
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BEAUTIFUL MURDER”: THE TRANSGRESSIVE AESTHETICS OF MURDER IN VICTORIAN STREET BALLADS", Victorian Literature and Culture, 28, 2000, pp. 15–37 Bloody Ballads: Classic...
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Asheville, NC: Native Ground Music. pp. 136–137. ISBN 1-883206-40-5. "Ballads Online". Ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2017. "Jean Ritchie and...
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Gerry Smyth (section Murder Ballads)
Festival Fringe. In October 2018, Smyth’s cabaret adaptation of the album Murder Ballads’’ by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds premiered at the Liverpool Royal Court...
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event inspired a number of songs and other tributes including the murder ballad "The Murder of the Lawson Family", which was originally recorded by the Carolina...
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