Ballads and boundaries : 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 / edited by James Porter ; editorial assistant Ellen Sinatra.
| Author/creator | International Ballad Conference |
| Other author | Porter, James, 1937- editor. |
| Other author | Sinatra, Ellen, editor. |
| Other author | International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. Commission for Folk Poetry. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | [Los Angeles, CA] : UCLA, Dept. of Ethnomusicology & Systematic Musicology, 1995. |
| Description | xxiii, 382 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / James Porter -- Conference program -- Part one: The ballad genre. Boundaries of the ballad genre / David Engle -- Borders of the ballad genre: the changing and preserving ballad / Satu Grünthal -- From Percy to Child: the "popular ballad" as "a distinct and very important species of poetry" / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Romanian dirge: a ballad in its own right / Noemi Marin -- New perspectives on the Corrido / Guillermo E. Hernández -- Corrido and literature: techniques and intertexuality / Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta -- The transmutation of a cultural constant: the Mexican political Corrido as personal legacy / Sara S. García -- "That amazing Texas version of Child 84, 'Boberick Allen'" / John Minton -- "La indita de San Luis Gonzaga": history, faith, and intercultural relations in a New Mexican sacred ballad / Enrique R. Lamadrid -- Motifs in the Child corpus / Natascha Würzbach -- Intersubcultural dialogue on husband-killing: "Elise," a popular ballad in nineteenth-century Germany / Tom Cheesman -- "The woman split at the well": female victimization in Philippine balladry / Herminia Meñez -- La Prieta in the Chicano Corrido / Bernice Zamora -- From Adelitas to farmworkers: the representation of Chicanas in painting and folksong / Maria Herrera-Sobek -- Thoughts on the genre: ballad / Mary Ellen Brown -- Part two: The ballad text. "The Bonny Earl of Murray": the intersections of folklore and history / Sandy Ives -- The pilgrim in ballads / Erich Wimmer -- Boundary breaking in Romanian heroic epic songs / Georgiana Galateanu-Farnoaga -- Ballad language: repetition and the formula / Ruth House Webber -- Gender-related narrative patterns in the Scandinavian legendary ballads / Tracey R. Sands -- Verbal concision in Piedmontese ballad texts: the use of the vocative / Riccardo Grazioli -- System and change in the pan-Hispanic ballad / Ana Valenciano -- Between oral and written transmission: "O sacrificio de Isaac" in Portuguese oral tradition / Manuel da Costa Fontes -- Romancing the Romance: perceptions (and boundaries) of the Judeo-Spanish ballad / Judith R. Cohen -- Sheila Stewart's "Twa brothers" (Child 49) / William Bernard McCarthy -- Part three: Ballad performance. Toward a theory and method for ballad performance / James Porter -- The role of a strong tradition-bearer in the making of an oral culture / John D. Niles -- How was "Judas" sung? / Toru Mitsui -- The ballad in northeastern Portugal / Anne Caufriez -- Just how bounded is the ballad? Two Brazilian examples / Judith Seeger -- "Wee'l keepe our fingers playing": women's work songs and the appropriation of tradition / Gerald Porter -- Ballad singing and boundaries / Sheila Douglas -- Boundaries of musical style in Albanian folk ballads / Spiro Shituni -- Ballads with an edge / Janet Herman -- Karaoke: singing beyond national boundaries / Sabine Wienker-Piepho -- Part four: Cultural experience in ballads. Chants populaires des Flamands de France (1856: a contribution to comparative folksong research, France/Belgium: Flanderes / Stefaan Top -- Tigers in a gold cage: binationalism and politics in the songs of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / Jesús Martínez -- Ballad finds and the new sensibility / Roger deV. Renwick -- "To hear with eyes": orality, print culture, and the textuality of ballads / Joseph M. P. Donatelli -- Unacknowledged legislation: dialect, ballads, and the question of transmission / Nathan Rose -- Beyond the boundaries: the concept of European folk ballads today / Otto Holzapfel -- Boundaries of cultural experience: singer and scholar / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- List of conference participants. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 0882870521 |