Ballad Mediations

Roger deV. Renwick, Sigrid Rieuwerts (Eds.)

Ballad Mediations. Folksongs Recovered, Represented, and Reimagined

ISBN 978-3-88476-819-8, ISBN 3-88476-819-0, 212 S., 5 Abb., kt., € 19,50 (2006)

(BASIS - Ballads and Songs, International Studies, Bd. 2)

SIGRID RIEUWERT S (MAINZ, GERMANY)

Preface

Acknowledgments

ROGER DEV . RENWICK (AUSTIN, TEXAS , U.S.A.)

Introduction

I. FOLKSONG S RECOVERED

RICHARD ALLEN BURN S (JONESBORO, ARKANSAS , U.S.A.)

"I Got My Duffel Bag Packed / And Goin' to Iraq": Marching Chants in the Military

MARTIN LOVELACE (ST . JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND , CANADA)

"Tam Lin" in Newfoundland

JUDITH R. COHEN (TORONTO, ONTARIO , CANADA)

"Your Ballad Man": romances in the Alan Lomax Collection

KATHERINE CAMPBELL (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

A New Tune for "King Orfeo"

WILLIAM BERNARD MCCARTHY (DUBOIS, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.)

A balld and a cante-fable: A Ca e of Shifting Generic Borders

JAMES NICOLOPULOS (AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A.)

The Question of the Earliest narcorridista: Manuel C. Valdez or Juan Gaytán?

MARY ELLEN BROWN (BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, U.S.A.)

Definitional Dissonance: Balladry in Scotland 1314-3707

II. FOLKSONGS REPRESENTED

E. DAVID GREGORY (ATHABASCA, ALBERTA, CANADA)

In the Shadow of Child: Other Victorian Perspectives on Ballad Editing

MICHAEL J. BELL (RINDGE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A.)

"The Anglo Saxon Ballad Spirit in America": John A. Lomax and the Politics of the Body

DAVID ATKINSON (LONDON, ENGLAND)

Editing Carpenter, Conceptualizing Folk Song Collections

JAMES MOREIRA (ORONO, MAINE, U.S.A.)

Villy Sørensen's Contributions to Ballad Scholarship

JON BARTLETT AND RIKA RUEBSAAT (NEW WESTMINSTER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)

Lamkin, "The Terror of Countless Nurseries"

STEPHANIE W. CROUCH (AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A.)

"Never Let It Be Said That I Slew a Naked Man"

III. FOLKSONGS REIMAGINED

FRANCES J. FISCHER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

Same Song, Second Verse? Ballad Continuity and Evolution

SARAH PORTNOY (BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.)

"Delgadina" in Michoacán: A Conflict Between Local and Global Cultures

HERRERA-SOBEK (SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.)

Expletives Undeleted: Violence, Drugs, and Transgressive Discourse in narcocorridos

SANDRA BALLIF STRAUBHAAR (AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A.)

Mord och Hor: Skewing the Canon?

SABINE WIENKER-PIEPHO (AUGSBURG, GERMANY)

Charles Godfrey Leland and His Breitmann Ballads

MARJETKA GOLEZ KAUCIC (LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA)

"The Dead Man's Bone Punishes a Wanton Man": A Slovene Folk Ballad and Contemporary Literary Poems

STUDY GUIDE

ROGER DEV. RENWICK (AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.S.A.)

Traditional Balladry in the United States of America: An Overview