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Ballads into books : the legacies of Francis James Child : selected papers from the 26th International Ballad Conference (SIEF Ballad Commission) Swansea, Wales, 19-24 July 1996 / Tom Cheesman, Sigrid Rieuwerts

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Bern : Peter Lang, 1997.Description: 283 p. : music ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 390675734X
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Contents:
Introduction: Child who? / Tom Cheesman and Sigrid Rieuwerts -- In memoriam: Francis James Child (1825-1896) / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Mr Child's Scottish mentor: William Motherwell / Mary Ellen Brown -- Sabine Baring-Gould's contribution to The English and Scottish popular ballads / David Atkinson -- 'To realise the imagined community': Francis Barton Gummere and the politics of democracy / Michael J. Bell -- Olive Dame Campbell and Appalachian tradition / William Bernard McCarthy -- 'The most valuable collection of Child ballads with tunes ever published': the unfinished work of James Madison Carpenter / Julia C. Bishop -- Genre and balladry / James Moreira -- The ballad of tradition: in pursuit of a vernacular aesthetic / Thomas Pettit -- 'There were three sisters' (Child 10): One ballad and two world views / Flemming G. Andersen -- Goethe's Ur-ei: literature, media, anthropology and the ballad / Wolfgang Braungart -- A literary history of 'Child Owlet' (Child 291) / Nathan Rose -- Telling the tale twice over: Shakespeare and the ballad / Gerald Porter -- From print to script: editing the Forresters manuscript / Stephen Knight -- The politics of culture: John Gay and popular ballads / Dianne Dugaw -- 'Stealing plots and tropes': traditional ballads and and American genre fiction / Faye Ringel -- 'The maid and the palmer' (Child 21) / Tony Conran -- 'Who's gonna kiss your ruby red lips?' Sexual scripts in floating verses / Pauline Greenhill -- Gordon Easton and 'The beggarman' (Child 279/280) / Thomas A. McKean -- On singing Child ballads / Frankie Armstrong (with editorial assistance from Brian Pearson) -- A Child ballad study guide with select bibliography and discography / David Atkinson (additional contributions by Tom Cheesman).

Introduction: Child who? / Tom Cheesman and Sigrid Rieuwerts -- In memoriam: Francis James Child (1825-1896) / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Mr Child's Scottish mentor: William Motherwell / Mary Ellen Brown -- Sabine Baring-Gould's contribution to The English and Scottish popular ballads / David Atkinson -- 'To realise the imagined community': Francis Barton Gummere and the politics of democracy / Michael J. Bell -- Olive Dame Campbell and Appalachian tradition / William Bernard McCarthy -- 'The most valuable collection of Child ballads with tunes ever published': the unfinished work of James Madison Carpenter / Julia C. Bishop -- Genre and balladry / James Moreira -- The ballad of tradition: in pursuit of a vernacular aesthetic / Thomas Pettit -- 'There were three sisters' (Child 10): One ballad and two world views / Flemming G. Andersen -- Goethe's Ur-ei: literature, media, anthropology and the ballad / Wolfgang Braungart -- A literary history of 'Child Owlet' (Child 291) / Nathan Rose -- Telling the tale twice over: Shakespeare and the ballad / Gerald Porter -- From print to script: editing the Forresters manuscript / Stephen Knight -- The politics of culture: John Gay and popular ballads / Dianne Dugaw -- 'Stealing plots and tropes': traditional ballads and and American genre fiction / Faye Ringel -- 'The maid and the palmer' (Child 21) / Tony Conran -- 'Who's gonna kiss your ruby red lips?' Sexual scripts in floating verses / Pauline Greenhill -- Gordon Easton and 'The beggarman' (Child 279/280) / Thomas A. McKean -- On singing Child ballads / Frankie Armstrong (with editorial assistance from Brian Pearson) -- A Child ballad study guide with select bibliography and discography / David Atkinson (additional contributions by Tom Cheesman).

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