Expropriating the fairies: 'Tam Lin', tradition and revival / David Atkinson -- The Harvard professor and the pawnbroker: F. J. Child and Will Walker / Mary Ellen Brown -- Ballad and intercultural communication / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Strategies of internationalism in Croatian ballad scholarship / Simona Delić -- Minstrels and Makars: a study of three poetic ballad versions / Sheila Douglas -- Similar module retrieval in a corpus of oral literature / Imants Freibergs -- Between tradition and modernity / Anca Giurchescu -- Education and ambiguous borders in Mexican corridos / Sara S. Garcia -- Musical folklore in paintings by Jan Steen / Louis Peter Grijp -- From chanson to romance / Beatriz Mariscal Hay -- Struggle with the dragon / Sabina Ispas -- Watching the white wheat and that hole beneath the nose: the English ballads of a late-nineteenth-century Welsh jobbing-printer / E. Wyn James -- Shepherd and lamb / Ildikó Kríza -- Evelyn Kendrick Wells / William McCarthy -- The making of Child 306 / Thomas A. McKean -- Time models and classification of the Estonian ballad / Arne Merilai -- Stylistic ornament and historical tendencies in old believers' poetry of the eighteenth century / Oleg V. Nikitin -- Songs in The Last Relic and their visual interpretation in film / Loone Ots -- The intertextuality of the song fragment: Dickens and popular song / Gerald Porter -- Ballad singing, fieldwork, meaning / James Porter -- The wild and wicked rambling boy / Roger deV. Renwick -- Building up libraries: F. J. Child and German philology / Sigrid Rieuwerts -- Ballads in oral translation between distantly related languages: English and Irish / Hugh Shields -- The spirit of Scotland and the Danish ballads: Sir Alexander Gray's translations / Larry Syndergaard -- The resplendent maiden crown in Latvian folksongs / Vaira Vikis-Freibergs.

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