Women as the chief preservers of traditional ballad poetry

Rieuwerts Sigrid: Women as the chief preservers of traditional ballad poetry. In: Folk ballads, ethics, moral issues : [a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Néprajzi Intézete és az Európai Folklór Intézet által Budapesten, 2001. ápr. 21-23. között rendezett konferencia anyaga], (10). pp. 149-159. (2002)

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Abstract

F. J. Child argued that it is “mainy through women everywhere” that the ballads are preserved and yet to him, as to Percy, Herder, Motherwell or Grundtvig before, women are only the mediators of an older male form of literature (heroic ballads, minstrel song, etc). The essential maternal feminity of orality is part of the German Romantic myth of origin. The ‘Volk’/people had to be (kept) anonymous in order to produce ‘VOLKSballaden’/popular ballads. What has come down to us in writing are very often ballads sung by women, recorded by men and presented as the ‘manly’, powerful, genuine ballads of the people. By arguing for women everywhere being the chief preservers of traditional ballad poetry, F. J. Child paved the way for seeking out these women locally.

Item Type: Book Section
Journal or Publication Title: Folk ballads, ethics, moral issues : [a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Néprajzi Intézete és az Európai Folklór Intézet által Budapesten, 2001. ápr. 21-23. között rendezett konferencia anyaga]
Date: 2002
Volume: 10
ISSN: 1419-1288
ISBN: 963 05 7989 8
Page Range: pp. 149-159
Series Name: Szegedi vallási néprajzi könyvtár
Language: English
Event Title: International Ballad Conference (31.) (2001) (Budapest)
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/70234/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Népballada - skót
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 158-159. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 05. Social sciences
05. Social sciences > 05.04. Sociology
Date Deposited: 2020. Sep. 17. 09:15
Last Modified: 2022. Feb. 02. 08:27
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/70291

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