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Die englisch-schottische Volksballade
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ISBN: 3772017134 9783772017131 Year: 1983 Volume: 44 Publisher: Bern Francke


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The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts
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ISBN: 1783740280 1783740272 1783740299 2821876351 9781783740291 9781783740307 9781783740314 1783740302 1783740310 9781783740284 9781783740277 Year: 2014 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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"This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship."--Publisher's website.

Ballads into books : the legacies of Francis James Child ; selected papers from the 26th International Ballad Conference (SIEF Ballad Commission), Swansea, Wales, 19-24 Juli 1996
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ISBN: 390675734X 9783906757346 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bern Peter Lang

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