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Blue Monster: Power Ballad, Defined (1589 words) |
 | The power ballad is a relatively new musical form instigated by the release of the song “Beth” by Kiss in 1976. |
| A Power Ballad has to come from a hard rockin’ band, a group whose core identify is deeply imbued with both the attitude and sound of straight-ahead metal-leaning rock. |
| These are commonly found in power ballads as components that nicely complement the required elements, but they are not found in all power ballads, nor is their presence sufficient to establish power balladhood. |
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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ballad (879 words) |
| Ballads should not be confused with the ballade, a 14th and 15th century French verse form. |
| Ballads have also been imitated in modern poetryâ most notably by the Canadian ballads of Robert W. Service, in Kipling's "Road to Mandalay,"?title=and in "Casey at the Bat."?title="The Ballad of the Bread-man"?title=is Charles Causley's re-telling of the story of the birth of Jesus. |
| Border ballads are a subgenre of folk ballads collected in the area along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially those concerned with border reivers and outlaws, or with historical events in the Borders. |
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