The first signs of ballads from modern oral tradition: Serafin Estébanez Calderon

Abstract

The first signs of ballads from modern oral tradition came from the hand of romantic travelers who, like Washington Irving, left testimonies of ballads that were sung in Andalusia, and later, the pioneers of Spanish folklore were to reveal in his writings some manners romances collected directly in these southern lands, where Serafin Estébanez Calderon who gives us more data about the environments in which unfolded the Ballads in the first half of the nineteenth century