Title: Ballads and diversity : perspectives on gender, ethos, power, and play /
Authors: Peere, Isabelle.; Top, Stefaan; Rieuwerts, Sigrid, 1961-
Publisher: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Ballads History and criticism; Folk songs History and criticism
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 --^