From "Wunderhorn" to the Internet

Eckhard John, Tobias Widmaier (Eds.)

From "Wunderhorn" to the Internet: Perspectives on Conceptions of "Folk song" and the Editing of Traditional Songs

ISBN 978-3-86821-214-3, 288 S., kt., € 19,50 (2010)

(BASIS - Ballads and Songs, International Studies, Bd. 6)

Vom „Wunderhorn“ zum Internet – Einführung

From “Wunderhorn” to the Internet – Introduction

I. FOLKSONG / VOLKSLIED: TERMS – HISTORY – CONCEPTS

Tobias Widmaier

„Volkston“ und „populare“ Kunstproduktion: Bemerkungen zum „Volkslied“-Diskurs am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts

E. David Gregory

The Emergence of a Concept in Victorian England: From “Old Ballads” and “Songs of the Peasantry” to “Folk Song”

Velle Espeland

Different Concepts of “Folk Song” in Norway

Teresa Catarella

The Traditional Ballad as an Art of Time

Marija Klobþar

Folk Song and its Bearers as a Relationship between Two Structures

Michael Fischer

Die Idee des „geistlichen Volksliedes“: Begriff, Sammlungen, Forschungsperspektiven

Marjeta Pisk

The Expression Balada in Slovenian Folklore Studies and its Semantic Field

II. SONG THEMES – SONG INTERPRETATIONS

Gerald Porter

“A sailor aa will never marry”: Narratives of Sexual Preference

Larry Syndergaard

Positive Women’s Roles and Women’s Power in the English-Scottish and Danish Ballads

Sara S. Garcia

Delgadina: From Romance to Corrido on the US-Mexico Border

Piotr Grochowski

Polnische Bettlerlieder – ihre Thematik, Funktionen und Träger

F. Gülay Mirzaoglu-Sivaci

A Bandit as Hero: The Turkish Narrative Song “Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe”

Ulrich Hägele

„Johnny“ – Held des modernen Volkslieds? Eine Spurensuche

III. SONG EDITIONS: PROJECTS – PROBLEMS – PERSPECTIVES

David Atkinson

A Brief History of Ballad Editing

J. J. Dias Marques

The Creative Editing of Traditional Ballads

Nils Grosch

Die „Altdeutschen Volkslieder“: Auf den Spuren eines editorischen Konstrukts

Katherine Campbell

The Prospectus to William Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs (1871)

Thomas A. McKean

The Dialect Conundrum in Transcribing Early Sound Recordings

Eckhard John

www.liederlexikon.de: “Historisch-kritisches Liederlexikon” on the Internet

Louis Peter Grijp

Selling Songs: Dutch Results and Experiments

Astrid Nora Ressem

Norwegian Ballads on the Internet: Questions and Dilemmas of Flexibility and Sound

Eberhard Nehlsen

Die bibliographische Erschließung der Liedflugschriften bis 1650

David Gray Engle

Der deutsche Balladenkatalog – ein europäischer Balladenkatalog

Brone Stundžiene

Lithuanian Folk Song: Its Past and Present