Publisher:Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,c2003.
Content descriptions
General Note:
"A project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
NOW SHE'S FAIRLY ALTERED HER MEANING: INTERPRETING ... NARRATIVE SONG -- Healing the spider's bite: "Ballad therapy" and Tarantismo / Luisa Del Giudice -- Music, charm, and seduction in British traditional songs and ballads / Vic Gammon -- "Places she knew very well": the symbolic economy of women's travels in traditional Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill -- A good man is hard to find: positive masculinity in the ballads sung by Scottish women / Lynn Wollstadt -- Jesting with edge tools: the dynamics of a fragmentary ballad tradition / Gerald Porter -- The servant problem in child ballads / Roger deV. Renwick -- May Day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in Eighteenth-century Dublin ballads / Cozette Griffin-Kremer -- MALIGN FORCES THAT CAN PUNISH AND PARDON: STRUCTURE AND MOTIF -- An oddity of Catalan folk songs and ballads / Simon Furey -- "Barbara Allen" and "The gypsy laddie": single-rhyme ballads in the child corpus / William Bernard McCarthy -- The motif of poisoning in Ukrainian ballads / Larysa Vakhnina -- Contexts and interpretations: the walled-up wife ballad and other related texts / Nicolae Constantinescu -- RECAPTURING THE JOURNEY: CRUXES OF CONTEXT, VERSION, AND TRANSMISSION -- The life and times of Rosie Anderson / Sheila Douglas -- Scholar, antischolar: Sir Alexander Gray's translations of the Danish Ballads / Larry Syndergaard -- "George Collins" in Hampshire / David Atkinson -- From France to Brazil via Germany and Portugal: the meandering Journey of a traditional ballad / J.J. Dias Marques -- "The white fisher": an illegitimate child ballad from Aberdeenshire / Julia C. Bishop -- REGIONS, REPRINTS, AND REPERTOIRES -- Ballad singing in New Deer / Katherine Campbell -- Old Flemish songbook reprints / Stefaan Top -- Chants Populaires Flamands (1879): a scholarly field collection and an early individual repertoire / Isabelle Peere -- The corpus of French ballads / Michèle Simonsen -- The Slovenian folk and literary ballad / Marjetka Golež Kaučič -- Scotland's nordic ballads / Frances J. Fischer -- Simon Fraser's Airs and Melodies (1816): an instrumental collection as a source of Scottish Gaelic songs / Mary Anne Alburger -- "PUREMENT SCIENTIFIQUE ET ARCHÉOLOGIQUE": THE MEDIATING COLLECTOR -- The case against Peter Buchan / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Ballad raids and spoilt songs: collection as colonization / Valentina Bold -- The contribution of D.K. Wilgus to ballad and folksong scholarship / David G. Engle, James Porter, Roger deV. Renwick.Read More