ISBN10: 0874214912, ISBN13: 9780874214918, [publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press] Softcover 388 pages : illustrations. Contents: Now she's fairly altered her meaning: Interpreting narrative song -- Healing the spider's bite: "Ballad therapy" and Tarantismo / Luisa del Giudice -- Music, charm, and seduction in British traditional songs and ballads / Vic Gammon -- "Places she knew very well": the symbolic economy of women's travels in traditional Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill -- A good man is hard to find: positive masculinity in the ballads sung by Scottish women / Lynn Wollstadt -- Jesting with edge tools: the dynamics of a fragmentary ballad tradition / Gerald Porter -- The servant problem in child ballad / Roger deV. Renwick -- May Day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in eighteenth-century Dublin ballads / Cozette Griffin Kremer -- Malign forces that can punish and pardon: structure and motif -- An oddity of Catalan folk songs and ballad / Simon Furey -- "Barbara Allen" and "The Gypsy Laddie": single-rhyme ballads in the child corpus / William Bernard McCarthy -- The motif of poisoning in Ukrainian ballads / Larysa Vakhnina -- Contexts and interpretations: the walled-up wife ballad and other related texts / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Recapturing the journey: cruxes of context, version, and transmission -- The life and times of Rosie Anderson / Sheila Douglas -- Scholar, Antischolar: S ...
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