| Description |
1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations |
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Now she's fairly altered her meaning: Interpreting narrative song -- 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 ballad / Roger deV. Renwick -- May Day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in eighteenth-century Dublin ballads / Cozette Griffin Kremer -- Malign forces that can punish and pardon: structure and motif -- An oddity of Catalan folk songs and ballad / 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 -- Recapturing the journey: cruxes of context, version, and transmission -- 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 |
| Summary |
The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition |
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"A project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ballads -- History and criticism
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Folk literature -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Piano-Vocal-Guitar.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ballads
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Folk literature
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Ballade
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Balladen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKean, Thomas A., 1961-
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| ISBN |
9780874214918 |
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0874214912 |
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0874215684 |
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9780874215687 |
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9786613267139 |
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6613267139 |
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