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conference announcement
Anthro-l Listowners & JWA Editors (ANTOWNER@UBVM.BITNET)
Mon, 5 Dec 1994 22:51:22 EST
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F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The Ballad Commission of the
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
invites you to the 26th
I N T E R N A T I O N A L
B A L L A D
C O N F E R E N C E
at Clyne Castle,
University of Wales, Swansea
Sat. 20 July - Tues. 23 July 1996
Special theme 1:
FOLK BALLADS AND/AS LITERATURE
- interrelations of oral & literary traditions
- literary theory & narrative song research
- ballad editions as a literary genre
- texts & textuality in traditional songs
Special theme 2:
BALLADS AND POST-COLONIALISM
- ballads & cultural colonisation
- ballads & subaltern resistance
- ballads in post-colonial contexts today
Regular themes:
- questions of fieldwork & editorial practice
- comparative studies
- towards an international ballad type-index
The International Ballad Conference is a roving, annual
event dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of narrative song
traditions.
It involves folklorists, ethnomusicologists, historians and critics of
popular culture and literature from all over Europe, North
America and other parts of the world.
The 1996 conference is timed to precede the Folklore Society's
international conference, `The Dynamics of Folklore:
Beyond the Victorian Imagination', at the nearby
University of Glamorgan (July 24-28 1996).
To offer papers and/or to receive conference mailings, contact:
Tom Cheesman, Dept of German,
University of Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, GB
Fax: 01792-295710
E-mail: t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk
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