Author Description

Introduction: Back To Earth - Ballads And (bio)diversity / Isabelle Peere -- Between Policy And Research: Intangible Heritage And The Flemish Centre For The Study Of Popular Culture / Marc Jacobs -- The Collecting Of Popular Songs In Belgium And The Netherlands In The Nineteenth Century / Stefaan Top -- Le Jeu Français Des Riches Et Des Pauvres En Wallonie / Roger Pinon -- Beyond Orality: Textuality And Tradition / David Atkinson -- Singer, Gender And Power: Male And Female Performers And The Greig-duncan Collection / Georgina Boyes -- A Modest Proposal: Or My Prolegomena To Twenty-first Century Ballad Study / Mary Ellen Brown -- The Complexity Of Afrikaans Children's Songs: Language, Transformation And Meaning / Matilda Burden -- The Girl Abducted By Dragons: The Treatment Of A Cross-generic Theme In Romanian Song / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Theodor Fontane Und Die Ballade Vom Eifersüchtigen Knaben / Jürgen Dittmar --^ Blood Everywhere: The Ballad Of Lamkin (child 93) / Sheila Douglas -- Quid Stamus? Cur Non Imus? Fortschritt In Zwei Balladenkatalogen / David G. Engle -- The Blackbird Mocks The Hunter: Human And Animal Relationships In Slovene Animal Ballads / Marjetka Golež Kaučič -- Die Erzählenden Lieder Und Der Tanz Als Mnemotechnisches Mittel / Stefanos D. Imellos -- Dobrişan The Shepherd, Or The Bastard And Royal Authority / Sabina Ispas -- Children's Verbal Play In Present-day Budapest / Katalin Juhász -- The Hero And His Horse In Greek Folk Ballads / Hans Kuhn -- A Question Of Honor: The Gitanos Of Andalucía And The Romancero / Beatriz Mariscal Hay -- The Archive Of The Department Of Irish Folklore, University College, Dublin: A Resource For Folk Song-study / Tom Munnelly -- Portuguese Narrative Songs: Love And Death / Carlos Nogueira -- Maître Manole: Mort Et Pouvoir / Nicolae Panea -- Reconstructing Women's Repertoires / Sigrid Rieuwerts --^ Der Teufel Und Der Junge Mann / Lutz Röhrich -- As For Our Admiral And Captain They Are Stout Hearts O