The flowering thorn : international ballad studies / edited by Thomas A. McKean.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKean, Thomas A., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads--History and criticism.

Ballads.

Folk literature--History and criticism.

Folk literature.

Physical Description:

388 pages : music ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2003]

Summary:

In The Flowering Thron, world authorities explore fifteen different cultures on a series of personal journeys to the heart of one of Europe's richest, most enduring cultural creations. The Flowering Thorn investigates interpretation, structure and motif; context, version, and transmission; regions, reprints, and repertoires; and the mediating collector, touching upon gender issues, collecting and editing as cultural translation, literary ballads in oral tradition, class issues, and dynamic relationships between oral and print sources. Folklore, history, literature, and ethnology combine with structuralism and functionalism, repertoire studies, and themes of cultural change to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the field today.

Contents:

Now She's Fairly Altered Her Meaning: Interpreting Narrative Song 17

Healing the Spider's Bite: "Ballad Therapy" and Tarantismo / Luisa Del Giudice 23

Music, Charm, and Seduction in British Traditional Songs and Ballads / Vic Gammon 35

"Places She Knew Very Well": The Symbolic Economy of Women's Travels in Traditional Newfoundland Ballads / Pauline Greenhill 55

A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Positive Masculinity in the Ballads Sung by Scottish Women / Lynn Wollstadt 67

Jesting with Edge Tools: The Dynamics of a Fragmentary Ballad Tradition / Gerald Porter 77

The Servant Problem in Child Ballads / Roger deV. Renwick 91

May Day and Mayhem: Portraits of a Holiday in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Ballads / Cozette Griffin-Kremer 101

Malign Forces that Can Punish and Pardon: Structure and Motif 131

An Oddity of Catalan Folk Songs and Ballads / Simon Furey 135

"Barbara Allen" and "The Gypsy Laddie": Single-Rhyme Ballads in the Child Corpus / William Bernard McCarthy 143

The Motif of Poisoning in Ukrainian Ballads / Larysa Vakhnina 155

Contexts and Interpretations: The Walled-Up Wife Ballad and Other Related Texts / Nicolae Constantinescu 161

Recapturing the Journey: Cruxes of Context, Version, and Transmission 169

The Life and Times of Rosie Anderson / Sheila Douglas 175

Scholar, Antischolar: Sir Alexander Gray's Translations of the Danish Ballads / Larry Syndergaard 183

"George Collins" in Hampshire / David Atkinson 193

From France to Brazil via Germany and Portugal: The Meandering Journey of a Traditional Ballad / J. J. Dias Marques 205

"The White Fisher": An Illegitimate Child Ballad from Aberdeenshire / Julia C. Bishop 219

Regions, Reprints, and Repertoires 245

Ballad Singing in New Deer / Katherine Campbell 249

Old Flemish Songbook Reprints / Stefaan Top 257

Chants Populaires Flamands (1879): A Scholarly Field Collection and an Early Individual Repertoire / Isabelle Peere 265

The Corpus of French Ballads / Michele Simonsen 285

The Slovenian Folk and Literary Ballad / Marjetka Golez Kaucic 295

Scotland's Nordic Ballads / Frances J. Fischer 307

Simon Fraser's Airs and Melodies (1816): An Instrumental Collection as a Source of Scottish Gaelic Songs / Mary Anne Alburger 319

"Purement scientifique et archeologique": The Mediating Collector 337

The Case against Peter Buchan / Sigrid Rieuwerts 341

Ballad Raids and Spoilt Songs: Collection as Colonization / Valentina Bold 353

The Contribution of D. K. Wilgus to Ballad and Folksong Scholarship / David G. Engle, James Porter, Roger deV. Renwick 363.

Notes:

"A project of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.

ISBN:

0874215684

OCLC:

52930137