Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Now she’s fairly altered her meaning: interpreting narrative song 17
5. He aling the spider’s bite: “ballad therapy” and tarantismo 23
6. Music, charm, and seduction in british traditional songs and ballads 35
7. “Places she knew very well”: the symbolic economy of women’s travels in traditional newfoundland ballads 55
8. A good man is hard to find: positive masculinity ballad sung by scottish women 67
9. Jesting with edge tools: the dynamics of a fragmentary ballad tradition 77
10. The servant problem in child ballads 91
11. May day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in eighteenth-century dublin ballads 101
12. Malign forces that can punish and pardon: structure and motif 131
13. An oddity of catalan folk songs and ballads 135
14. “Barbara allen” and “the gypsy laddie”: single-rhyme ballads in the child corpus 143
15. The motif of poisoning in ukrainian ballads 155
16. Contexts and interpretations: the walled-up wife ballad and other related texts 161
17. Recapturing the journey: cruxes of context, version, and transmission 171
18. The life and times of rosie anderson 175
19. Scholar, antischolar: sir alexander gray’s translations of the danish ballads 183
20. “George collins” in hampshire 193
21. Form france to brazil via germany and portugal: the meandering journey of a traditional ballad 205
22. “The white fisher”: an illegitimate child ballad from aberdeenshire 219
23. Regions, reprints, and repertoires 247
24. Ballad singing in new deer 249
25. Old flemish songbllk reprints 257
26. Chants populaires flamands(1879): a scholarly field collection and an early individual repertoire 265
27. The corpus of grench ballads 285
28. The slovenian folk and literary ballad 295
29. Scotland’s nordic ballads 307
30. Simon fraser’s Airs and melodies[1816]: an instrumental collection as a source of scottish gaelic songs 319
31. “Purement scientifique et archéologique”: the mediating collector 339
32. the case against peter buchan 341
33. Ballad raids and spoilt songs: collection as colonization 353
34. The contribution of d. k. wilgus to ballad and folksong scholarship 363
35. Acknowledgements 377
36. Notes on the contributors 379
37. General index 383
38. Song Title Index 387