What to Do With … Folklore? What to Do … with Ballads? Revisiting “Mrs Brown of Falkland”
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https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2011400302Keywords:
ballads, research methodology, orality, Mrs Brown of Falkland // balade, raziskovalna metodologija, ustnost, gospa Brown iz FalklandaAbstract
With one of the oldest and most important ballad repertoires in English now published, I would like to revisit the singer Mrs Brown of Falkland (1747-1810) and discuss what is involved in studying ballads in general and her ballads in particular.
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Z enim najstarejših in najpomembnejših doslej izdanih angleških baladnih repertoarjev bi se rada vnovič vrnila k pevki gospe Brownovi s Falklanda (1747–1810) in razpravljala o tem, kaj vključuje študij balad na spološno in kaj v posameznostih.
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