Noun:

ବାଲାଡ୍ |, ଲୋକନୃତ୍ୟ |, ବିର୍ ଗାଥା |,

balladry's Usage Examples:

Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal found the album Even more bipolar than usual, with Elliott jolting from uber-hypeness to soul-crushing balladry.

popular and peculiar song genres, from AM oldies-radio to traditional folk balladry, 80s pop to art song and cabaret.

The song's introduction featured minor chord changes, and drew influence from fifties balladry.

Martin Popoff instead wrote that the album was upsetting and confusing for older fans, confirming the band's fascination for power pomp, accomplished, progressive light/heavy balladry, with less focus on fast heavy metal.

obtained generally favourable reviews from critics, who commended the balladry, but only charted on Australian and Irish charts.

first novelist to use Australia"s colonial past intelligently, neither sentimentalising it as woozy bush-balladry nor turning it into an ersatz myth".

studier i Olle Adolphsons musik och framförandekonst" ["The continuum of balladry — studies in the music and performance art of Olle Adolphson"] (2002),.

band of a mixed nature in terms of style, ranging from moments of pure balladry, through jazzy details, to enthusiastic pop songs.

subterranean realms of psyche-rock, twisted roots, hoodoo-voodoo and narcotized lounge balladry.

In a retrospective review, Keith Harris from Blender cited The Gold Experience as the best album Prince recorded in the 1990s, a mix of newly stripped-down funk and delicate balladry that reasserts his dynamic range.

Wall gets bogged down by too much banal balladry (Stay, Sweet Sixteen), proving Destiny's Child to be capable of sounding exactly like any other group of snooze-inducing slow-jammers.

of her verse must, of course, be classed as balladry, and it is as a balladist that she has gained a wide audience, but, especially in her later work.

Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border.