TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKean,Thomas A.
TI  - The flowering thorn: international ballad studies 
T2  - Folklore and society
SN  - 0874215684
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Logan, Utah
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Folk song
KW  - UkLoVW
KW  - Folk literature
KW  - History
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Ballads
N1  - 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Alberger -- 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. Engla, James Porter, and Roger deV. Renwick
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