Singing the Nations

Dace Bula, Sigrid Rieuwerts (Eds.)

Singing the Nations: Herder's Legacy

ISBN 978-3-86821-018-7, 376 S., kt., € 19,50 (2008)

(BASIS - Ballads and Songs, International Studies, Bd. 4)

VAIRA VIKE-FREIBERGA (RIGA, LATVIA)

Foreword.

DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA) AND SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY)

Introduction

HERDER’S LEGACY: LATVIA AND FOLKSONG

DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA)

Latvian Folksongs: Collected, Published and Studied

SABINE WIENKER-PIEPHO (FREIBURG, GERMANY)

Herder and the Development of His Volkslied Concept During His Time in Riga

KRISTINA JAREMKO-PORTER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

A Return to the Rural Idyll: The Herderian Past in Latvian Ethnographic Singing

SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY)

The Voice of the Scottish Muse on the Shores of the Frozen Baltic: Robert Jamieson, Sir Walter Scott and Riga

BARBARA BOOCK (FREIBURG, DEUTSCHLAND)

Lettische Volkslieder in Karl Marx’ internationaler Volksliedsammlung für seine Braut Jenny von Westphalen

SINGING THE NATIONS: CULTURE AND RHETORIC

MATILDA BURDEN (STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA)

Oom Jannie, Queen Victoria, Diamonds and the Roots of Afrikaner Nationalism

VELLE ESPELAND (OSLO, NORWAY)

Establishing a Corpus of National Songs

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

Nationalist Rhetoric and Religious Faith: Mexican Nationalism in Virgin of Guadalupe Songs

KATALIN JUHÁSZ (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY)

The Song of the Martyrs of Arad .

KIRSTEN KEARNEY (STIRLING, SCOTLAND)

The Rupture of History: Nationalistic Abuse of Oral and Literary Poetry in Nazi Germany. The Case of Agnes Miegel

ISABELLE PEERE (BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE)

Le chant des Belges en 1914-18 – l’élan d’une nation

GERALD PORTER (VAASA, FINLAND)

“To Tread on the Neck of the Czar”: Imitation and Disorder in the Historical Song

LIINA SAARLO (TARTU, ESTONIA)

Searching for Art and History in Folksongs

STUDYING THE NATIONS: TEXTS AND TRADITIONS

VALENTINA BOLD (GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)

Frank Miller (1854-1944): Scotland’s Forgotten Collector

KATHERINE CAMPBELL (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

William Christie: Some Sources for Traditional Ballad Airs

MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE (ABERYSTWYTH, WALES)

From Druids to Dairymaids: Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826) and Welsh Oral Tradition

LENE HALSKOV HANSEN (MERN, DENMARK)

The Love of Dance in Medieval Denmark or Whatever Happened to the Chain Dance in Danish Ballad Research? .

EMILY LYLE (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

Songs from South-West Scotland, 1825-1830: Motherwell’s Personal Records in Relation to Records in Crawfurd’s Collection

TIIU JAAGO (TARTU, ESTONIA)

Lyric Folk Songs of Karuse Parish in West Estonia

JANIKA ORAS (TARTU, ESTONIA)

Searching for the Singer in Archive Texts

SINGING AND SHARING: CUSTOMS AND CONCEPTS

FRANCES J. FISCHER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)

Gender Imbalance in Ballad Baby Births

COZETTE GRIFFIN-KREMER (BREST, FRANCE)

The French Muguet (Lily-of-the-Valley) in Song

AADDO LINTROP (TARTU, ESTONIA)

Divination in Estonian Regi-Songs

MARTIN LOVELACE (ST. JOHN’S, CANADA)

Neighbours and Night Visits in the Song Repertoire of Clarence Blois

RNjTA MUKTUPƖVELA (RIGA, LATVIA)

Weaning Traditions in Latvian Folksongs and Ethnographical Materials

ANDREW C. ROUSE (PÉCS, HUNGARY)

Telling the Time: The Popular Concept of Time in Song

DIALOGUES OF GENRES: HERDER’S LEGACY ENLARGED

MARTIN BOIKO (RIGA, LATVIA)

Balkan and Baltic Vocal Polyphonies: Comparative Aspects

HANS KUHN (CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA)

The Melodies of Icelandic Rímur

MARI SARV (TARTU, ESTONIA)

Possible Points of Convergence in the Metrical History of Estonian and Latvian Folk Songs

DAVID ATKINSON (LONDON, ENGLAND)

The English ‘Maid’ and the Ballad Idea

BAIBA BELA AND IEVA GARDA (RIGA, LATVIA)

The Link Between Real-Life Experiences and the Latvian Literary Ballad

MARJETKA GOLEŽ KAUCIC (LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA)

“The Tenth Daughter”: From a Fairy Tale to Contemporary Literature

WILLIAM BERNARD MCCARTHY (KITTERY, MAINE, U.S.A.)

Drawn from the Yarrow Stream: A Variant of John Logan’s “Braes of Yarrow” in Oral Tradition

J. J. DIAS MARQUES (FARO, PORTUGAL)

“The Vanishing Hitchhiker” Theme in Portuguese Balladry

BARBALA STRODA (RIGA, LATVIA)

The Use of Folk Poetry in Fantasy Genre Literature