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Songs of people on the move / Thomas A. McKean (ed.).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ; v. 8.Publication details: Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, c2012.Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9783868214116 (pbk.)
  • 3868214119 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.42 23
Contents:
Itinerant singers in Slovenia: views on a distinct phenomenon / Marija Klobcar -- Orally transmitted ballads among Frisian migrant workers and other inhabitants of the Frisian woods / Ineke Van Beersum -- Itinerant mendicant singers among the Slavs / Katya Mihaylova -- Pilgrimage, pilgrims and pilgrimage sites in Slovenian folk songs and contemporary literature / Marjetka Golez Kaucic -- Expressions of travelling in the Portuguese Romanceiro / Sandra Cristina de Jesus Boto -- 'Born in the ballad' journey and movement in three Scottish traveller songs / Sara Reith -- 'Katherine Oggie': a song's stravaig through oral tradition and print / Valentina Bold -- Trains and ballads in nineteenth-century Wales / E. Wyn James -- The role of local song at a time of general insurrection: the case of 'The Owslebury lads' / Gerald Porter -- 'Heute hier, morgen dort here today, tomorrow there' travel as a movens of the Volkslied concept / Eckhard John -- The Somerset folk map project gypsies and music on the margins / Yvette Staelens -- Beggers and buskers orphans and jews songs about marginal figures in nineteenth-century Denmark / Hans Kuhn -- 'I'm off to India for seven long years' folk singers and military service / C.J. Bearman -- 'The female rambling sailor' recovery and regeneration / Jennifer Gall -- Robert Graves the poet as ballad enthusiast / Christopher Heppa -- Singing the unspeakable soundings in English minority culture / David Gregory -- 'I wish you were a maid' transgender imagination in Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill

Includes bibliographical references.

Itinerant singers in Slovenia: views on a distinct phenomenon / Marija Klobcar -- Orally transmitted ballads among Frisian migrant workers and other inhabitants of the Frisian woods / Ineke Van Beersum -- Itinerant mendicant singers among the Slavs / Katya Mihaylova -- Pilgrimage, pilgrims and pilgrimage sites in Slovenian folk songs and contemporary literature / Marjetka Golez Kaucic -- Expressions of travelling in the Portuguese Romanceiro / Sandra Cristina de Jesus Boto -- 'Born in the ballad' journey and movement in three Scottish traveller songs / Sara Reith -- 'Katherine Oggie': a song's stravaig through oral tradition and print / Valentina Bold -- Trains and ballads in nineteenth-century Wales / E. Wyn James -- The role of local song at a time of general insurrection: the case of 'The Owslebury lads' / Gerald Porter -- 'Heute hier, morgen dort here today, tomorrow there' travel as a movens of the Volkslied concept / Eckhard John -- The Somerset folk map project gypsies and music on the margins / Yvette Staelens -- Beggers and buskers orphans and jews songs about marginal figures in nineteenth-century Denmark / Hans Kuhn -- 'I'm off to India for seven long years' folk singers and military service / C.J. Bearman -- 'The female rambling sailor' recovery and regeneration / Jennifer Gall -- Robert Graves the poet as ballad enthusiast / Christopher Heppa -- Singing the unspeakable soundings in English minority culture / David Gregory -- 'I wish you were a maid' transgender imagination in Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill

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