Songs of people on the move
By: Thomas A. McKean (ed.).
Series: BASIS, Ballads and songs, international studies -- volume 8; Ballads and songs, international studies -- v. 8
Publisher: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783868214116
Subjects: Folk music; History and criticism; Ballads; Social Marginality; Music and folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Songs of people on the move and in the margins  -- Thomas A. McKean; title: Itinerant singers in Slovenia : views on a distinct phenomenon  -- Marija Klobčar; title: Orally transmitted ballads among Frisian migrant workers and other inhabitants of the Frisian woods  -- Ineke van Beersum; title: Itinerant mendicant singers among the Slavs  -- Katya Mihaylova; title: Pilgrimage, pilgrims and pilgrimage sites in Slovenian folk songs and contemporary literature  -- Marjetka Golež Kaučič; title: Expressions of travelling in the Portuguese Romanceiro  -- Sandra Cristina de Jesus Boto; title: "Born into the ballad" : Journey and movement in three Scottish traveller songs  -- Sara Reith; title: "Katherine Oggie" : a song's Stravaig through oral tradition and print  -- Valentina Bold; title: Trains and ballads in Nineteenth-Century Wales  -- E. Wyn James; title: The role of local song at the time of general insurrection: the case of "The Owslebury Lads"  -- Gerald Porter; title: "Heute hier, Morgen dort : Here today, tomorrow there" : travel as movens of the Volkslied concept  -- Eckhard John; title: The Somerset Folk map project: gypsies and music on the margins  -- Yvette Staelens; title: Beggars and Buskers, Orphans and Jews: songs about marginal figures in Nineteenth-century Denmark  -- Hans Kuhn; title: "I'm off to India for seven long years": Folk singers and military service  -- C.J. Bearman; title: "The female rambling sailor": recovery and regeneration  -- Jennifer Gall; title: Robert Graves--the poet as ballad enthusiast  -- Christopher Heppa; title: Singing the unspeakable: soundings in English minority culture  -- David Gregory; title: "I wish you were a maid:" transgender imagination in Newfoundland ballads -- Pauline Greenhill.