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Example sentences for: ballad

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His classic work, With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, first published in 1958, has become a standard work in Chicano studies and American folklore.
When the film shifts to hell, the muscle-bound Satan does a soulful, Meat Loaf-style schlock-rock ballad on his longing for a better world--in this case embodied by a ship of half-naked sailor types lolling about a pool.
I think of "Good Thing Going," his wonderfully brooding ballad from Merrily , with its expert title resolution:
It is a study of a border ballad, “El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez,” which looks at the history of the Texas-Mexican border and the life of Gregorio Cortez, and presents an analysis of the man as a ballad hero.
It was in this work that Paredes proposed his theory of the production of Chicano folklore, and especially the border ballad, as a result of a process of border conflict generated by the invasion of Anglo culture and values into the Texas region in the early nineteenth century.