The Flowering Thorn : International Ballad Studies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (395 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Now She's Fairly Altered Her Meaning: Interpreting Narrative Song -- Healing the Spider's Bite: "Ballad Therapy" and Tarantismo -- Music, Charm and Seduction in British Traditional Songs and Ballads -- Places She Knew Very Well": The Symbolic Economy of Women's Travels in Traditional Newfoundland Ballads -- A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Positive Masculinity in the Ballads Sung by Scottish Women -- Jesting with Edge Tools: The Dynamics of a Fragmentary Ballad Tradition -- The Servant Problem in Child Ballads -- May Day and Mayhem: Portraits of a Holiday in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Ballads -- Malign Forces That Can Punish and Pardon: Structure and Motif -- An Oddity of Catalan Folk Songs and Ballads -- Barbara Allen" and "The Gypsy Laddie": Single-Rhyme Ballads in the Child Corpus -- The Motif of Poisoning in Ukrainian Ballads -- Contexts and Interpretations: The Walled-Up Wife Ballad and Other Related Texts -- Recapturing the Journey: Cruxes of Context, Version, and Transmission -- The Life and Times of Rosie Anderson -- Scholar, Antischolar: Sir Alexander Gray's Translation of the Danish Ballads -- George Collins" in Hampshire -- From France to Brazil via Germany and Portugal: The Meandering Journey of a Tradition Ballad -- The White Fisher": An Illegitimate Child Ballad from Aberdeenshire -- Regions, Reprints, and Repertoires -- Ballad Singing in New Deer -- Old Flemish Songbook Reprints -- Chants Populaires Flamansd (1879): A Scholarly Field Collection and an Early Individual Repertoire -- The Corpus of French Ballads -- The Slovenian Folk and Literary Ballad -- Scotland's Nordic Ballads -- Simon Fraser's Airs and Melodies [1816]: An Instrumental Collection as a Source of Scottish Gaelic Songs -- Purement scientifique et archeologique": The Mediating Collector -- The Case against Peter Buchan. Ballad Raids and Spoilt Songs: Collection as Colonization -- The Contribution of D. K. Wilgus to Ballad and Folksong Scholarship -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Song Title Index.