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Example sentences for: ballads

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In three volumes-- Ballads , Social Music , and Songs --he gathered blues, gospel hymns, murder narratives, reels and jigs, Cajun tunes, sermons, and ancient Child ballads transmuted from their British origins by centuries in the mountains and valleys of America.
These experiences are dramatized in corridos (ballads).
If the defense is that 1990s rap is documentary--"the authentic sound of the streets"--well, so were those verse-and-chorus ballads of the 1890s.
As a young man, Paredes was always interested in music, corridos (ballads), and singing.
Many of these old ballads have survived to the present; this one, as we put it together, must at least have made current the warning Katie, bar the door!