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Long narrative songs that reveal a culture's values and record its history. Characteristics of traditional ballads and Thomas Percy's 1765 collection, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, which inspired an eighteenth-century ballad revival and an interest in local popular culture. The continuing appeal of the fifteenth-century legend "Robin Hood." Traits of American ballads, including the slave voyage narrative "The Flying Cloud" and the broadside "The Avondale Mine Disaster," which emphasizes the nobility of labor.
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