Call No.: MPS 10 Ballads and diversity : perspectives on gender, ethos, power, and play / edited by Isabelle Peere & Stefaan Top ; editorial assistant Sigrid Rieuwerts. - Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. - xvi, 271 p. : ill., music ; 21 cm. - BASIS, Ballads and songs, international studies ; v. 1 .

Contents: Introduction: back to earth, ballads and (bio)diversity / Isabelle Peere -- Between policy and research: intangible heritage and the Flemish Centre for the Study of Popular Culture / Marc Jacobs -- The collecting of popular songs in Belgium and the Netherlands in the nineteenth century / Stefaan Top -- Le jeu français des riches et des pauvres en Wallonie / Roger Pinon -- Beyond orality: textuality and tradition / David Atkinson -- Singer, gender and power: male and female performers and the Greig-Duncan collection / Georgina Boyes -- A modest proposal: or my prolegomena to twenty-first century ballad study / Mary Ellen Brown -- The complexity of Afrikaans children's songs: language, transformation and meaning / Matilda Burden -- 'The girl abducted by dragons': the treatment of a cross-generic theme in Romanian song / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Theodor Fontane und die ballade vom eifersüchtigen Knaben / Jürgen Dittmar -- Blood everywhere: the ballad of 'Lamkin' (Child 93) / Sheila Douglas -- 'Quid stamus? Cur non imus?' Fortschritt in zwei balladenkatalogen / David G. Engle -- 'The blackbird mocks the hunter': human and animal relationships in Slovene animal ballads / Marjetke Golež Kaučič -- Die erzählenden lieder und der tanz als mnemotechnisches mittel / Stefanos D. Imellos -- 'Dobrişan the shepherd', or the bastard and royal authority / Sabina Ispas -- Children's verbal play in present-day Budapest / Katalin Juhász -- The hero and his horse in Greek folk ballads / Hans Kuhn -- A question of honor: the gitanos of Andalucia and the romancero / Beatriz Mariscal Hay -- The archive of the Department of Irish Folklore, University College, Dublin: a resource for folk song-study / Tom Munnelly -- Portuguese narrative songs: love and death / Carlos Nogueira -- 'Maître Manole': mort et pouvoir / Nicolae Panea -- Reconstructing women's repertoires / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Der teufel und der junge mann / Lutz Röhrich -- 'As for our admiral and captain they are stout hearts of gold': social status as reflected in sea songs / Andrew C. Rouse -- Some examples of children's ritual singing in Bulgaria / Maria Samokovlieva -- Gender and power in Danish traditional ballads / Michèle Simonsen -- Traditional song and the tourist gaze in Dumfries and Galloway / Lesley Stevenson -- Is there an 'ecclesiastical code' of early European folk ballad and song collecting? / Vilmos Voigt.

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