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Ballad Research
THE STRANGER IN BALLAD NARRATIVE AND OTHER TOPICS
Dublin and co. Clare, Ireland, 26 August–1 September 1985
edited by Hugh Shields, Dublin, FMSI, 1986, 297 pp.
ISBN 0-905733-02-9
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction Hugh Shields
Participants’ names and addresses
Programme
Summaries of papers
Narrative songs in West Clare Tom Munnelly
Narrative song in the Celtic languages
Cathal Goan ‘Scéalamhráin Cheilteacha’/ General
Alan Bruford The singing of Fenian and similar lays in Scotland
Angela Bourke The story in Irish traditional song
The Stranger in ballad narrative
Erich Wimmer Der Fremde und fremde Länder in der deutschen Balladenüberlieferung
Stefaan Top Strangers in Flemish children’s song
Sheila Douglas Named and unnamed strangers in Scottish ballads
W.F.H. Nicolaisen Names of strangers in traditional ballads. A response to Sheila Douglas
Anneli Asplund The stranger in Finnish folk ballads and other narrative songs
Zmaga Kumer Die Fremde und der Fremde in der slowenischen Volksballade
Dagmar Burkhart Zur ideologischen und ästhetischen Verarbeitung internationaler Kontakte in serbokroatischen und mazedonischen epischen Volksliedern
Walter Puchner The stranger in Greek folk song
Helga Stein Vom Fremden im rumänischen Erzähllied
Gisela Beutler Some remarks on the Moorish ballads in Spain and elsewhere
Classification &c
James Porter Problems of ballad terminology. Scholars’ explanations and singers’ epistemics
Eleanor R. Long Ballad classification and the ‘narrative theme’ concept. Together with a thematic index to Anglo-lrish-American balladry
D.K. Wilgus The catalogue of Irish traditional ballads in English
David Buchan Tale roles, classification and the revenant ballads (summary)
Conrad Laforte ‘Le Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française’ comme instrument de recherche et d’analyse
Hugh Shields A quand une édition critique de la chanson narrative française?
Dorothé Schubarth Arten des spanischen und galizischen Erzählliedes und ihr Verhältnis zu anderen volksliterarischen Gattungen
Other
Georgina Boyes The performance and creation of vernacular songs in a contemporary urban culture
Ate Doornbosch Twentieth-century ‘Halewijn’ recordings in the Netherlands. A matter of survival and persistence
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