Ballads and boundaries
Subtitle: narrative singing in an intercultural context : proceedings of the 23rd International Ballad Conference of the Commission for Folk Poetry (Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore), University of California, Los Angeles, June 21-24, 1993
By: edited by James Porter ; editorial assistant Ellen Sinatra
Contributors: Porter, James,  1937-; Sinatra, Ellen; International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. Commission for Folk Poetry
Publisher: UCLA, Dept. of Ethnomusicology & Systematic Musicology
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [Los Angeles, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Ballads -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Folk music -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Folk songs -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: Boundaries of the ballad genre / David Engle; value: Borders of the ballad genre: the changing and preserving ballad / Satu Grünthal; value: From Percy to Child: The popular ballad as "a distinct and very important species of poetry" / Sigrid Rieuwerts; value: Romanian dirge: A ballad in its own right / Noemi Marin; value: New perspectives on the Corrido / Guillermo E. Hernández; value: Corrido and literature: techniques and intertextuality / Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta; value: The transmutation of a cultural constant: the Mexican political corrido as personal legacy / Sara S. García; value: "That amazing Texas version of Child 84, 'Boberick Allen'" / John Minton; value: "La indita de San Luis Gonzaga": history, faith, and intercultural relations in a New Mexian sacred ballad / Enrique R. Lamadrid; value: Motifs in the Child corpus / Natascha Würzbach; value: Intersubcultral dialogue on husband-killing: "Elise," a popular ballad in nineteenth-century Germany / Tom Cheesman; value: "The woman split at the well": female victimization in Philippine balladry / Herminia Meñez; value: La Prieta in the Chicano  Corrido / Bernice Zamora; value: From Adelitas to farmworkers: the representation of Chicanas in painting and folksong / María Herrera-Sobek; value: Thoughts on the genre: ballad / Mary Ellen Brown; value: "The Bonny Earl of Murray": the intersections of folklore and history / Sandy Ives; value: The pilgrim in ballads / Erich Wimmer; value: Boundary breaking in Romanian heroic epic songs / Georgiana Galateanu-Farnoaga; value: Ballad language: repetition and the formula / Ruth House Webber; value: Gender-related narrative patterns in the Scandinavian legendary ballads / Tracey R. Sands; value: Verbal concision in Piedmontese ballad texts: the use of the vocative / Riccardo Grazioli; value: System and change in the pan-Hispanic ballad / Ana Valenciano; value: Between oral and written transmission: "O sacrificio de Isaac" in Portuguese oral tradition / Manuel da Costa Fontes; value: Romancing the Romance: perceptions (and boundaries) of the Judeo-Spanish ballad / Judith R. Cohen; value: Sheila Stewart's "Twa brothers" (Child 49) / William Bernard McCarthy; value: Toward a theory and method for ballad performance / James Porter; value: The role of a strong tradition-bearer in the making of an oral culture / John D. Niles; value: How was "Judas" sung? / Toru Mitsui; value: The ballad in northeastern Portugal / Anne Caufriez; value: Just how bounded is the ballad? Two Brazilian examples / Judith Seeger; value: "Wee'l keepe our fingers playing": women's work songs and the appropriation of tradition / Gerald Porter; value: Ballad singing and boundaries / Sheila Douglas; value: Boundaries of musical style in Albanian folk ballads / Spiro Shituni; value: Ballads with an edge / Janet Herman; value: Karaoke: singing beyond national boundaries / Sabine Wienker-Piepho; value: Chants populaires des Flamands de France (1856): a contribution to comparative folksong research, France/Belgium: Flanders / Stefaan Top; value: Tigers in a gold cage: binationalism and politics in the songs of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / Jesús Martínez; value: Ballad finds and the new sensibility / Roger deV. Renwick; value: "To hear with eyes": orality, print culture, and the textuality of ballads / Joseph M.P. Donatelli; value: Unacknowledged legislation: dialect, ballads, and the question of transmission / Nathan Rose; value: Beyond the boundaries: the concept of European folk ballads today / Otto Holzapfel; value: Boundaries of cultural experience: singer and scholar / Sigrid Rieuwerts