Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore)

Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore)
Title Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore) PDF eBook
Author Geraint Jenkins
Publisher Routledge
Pages 391
Release 2015-02-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317549902

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This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in Britain, to mark his retirement as the first President of the Society for Folk Life Studies. In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contribution to the development of the study of traditional life in Britain.

A Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore)

A Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore)
Title A Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore) PDF eBook
Author David Buchan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 321
Release 2015-02-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317550161

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The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people. This anthology, first published in 1973, is drawn from the richest ballad tradition in Britain, that of the Northeast of Scotland. It provides a fresh and original choice of songs that ranges from the old ballads like ‘Gil Brenton’ and ‘Willie’s Lady’ to the bothy ballads like ‘The Tarves Rant’. The collection illustrates the development of a tradition over the centuries from the oral stage down to the modern, and exemplifies the methods of composition and transmission, the kinds of ballad-story, and the types of ballad-text found in the various stages of a ballad tradition. It illustrates the variety of subject matter, and indicates lines of relationship with other genres of Folklore Studies. A substantial section, containing what are widely acknowledged as the best of all British ballads, the oral ballads of Anna Brown, demonstrates clearly that the ballads are not merely simple or crude poems; in their oral form, they are narrative songs of some complexity and sophistication. This anthology is complementary to Dr Buchan’s The Ballad and the Folk.

Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)

Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)
Title Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) PDF eBook
Author Herbert Halpert
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1276
Release 2015-02-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317551494

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This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies PDF eBook
Author Simon J. Bronner
Publisher
Pages 1033
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 0190840617

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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters explore the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.

Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore)

Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore)
Title Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore) PDF eBook
Author Timothy Tangherlini
Publisher Routledge
Pages 230
Release 2015-02-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317550641

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This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synthetic methodologies, enhance greatly our understanding of the world of the legend, and especially the basic question of ‘Who tells what to whom in the form of a legend and why?’ This work is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides us with an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.

Studies in American Folklife

Studies in American Folklife
Title Studies in American Folklife PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 292
Release 1982
Genre Folk music
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The Brothers Grimm (RLE Folklore)

The Brothers Grimm (RLE Folklore)
Title The Brothers Grimm (RLE Folklore) PDF eBook
Author Ruth Michaelis-Jena
Publisher Routledge
Pages 258
Release 2020-07-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 100015596X

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This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members of the 'Göttingen Seven', and inside the circle of the German Romantics. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were pioneers in the recording of authentic traditional stories. Gradual revisions gave these tales the form in which they have come down to us. Even if more recently the custom has been to leave stories as they were told, the astonishing currency of the Grimms' collection is due largely to the brothers' editorial work. The Grimms' lasting fame, as Michaelis-Jena points out, may well rest on the fact that by their insistence on 'genuine and true recording' they turned the amateur antiquarian into the professional folklorist. Ruth Michaelis-Jena has worked for many years on the Brothers Grimm, and has had access to little known material at various libraries and museums in Germany.