Acknowledgments VAIRA VIKE-FREIBERGA (RIGA, LATVIA) Foreword DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA) AND SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY) Introduction HERDER’ S LEGACY: LATVIA AND FOLKSONG DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA) Latvian Folksongs: Collected, Published and Studied SABINE WIENKER-PIEPHO (FREIBURG, GERMANY) Herder and the Development of His Volkslied Concept During His Time in Riga KRISTINA JAREMKO-PORTER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND) A Return to the Rural Idyll: The Herderian Past in Latvian Ethnographic Singing SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY) The Voice of the Scottish Muse on the Shores of the Frozen Baltic: Robert Jamieson, Sir Walter Scott and Riga BARBARA BOOCK (FREIBURG, DEUTSCHLAND) Lettische Volkslieder in Karl Marx’ internationaler Volksliedsammlung für seine Braut Jenny von Westphalen SINGING THE NATIONS: CULTURE AND RHETORIC MATILDA BURDEN (STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA) Oom Jannie, Queen Victoria, Diamonds and the Roots of Afrikaner Nationalism VELLE ESPELAND (OSLO, NORWAY) Establishing a Corpus of National Songs MARÍA HERRERA-SOBEK (SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.) Nationalist Rhetoric and Religious Faith: Mexican Nationalism in Virgin of Guadalupe Songs KATALIN JUHÁSZ (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY) The Song of the Martyrs of Arad KIRSTEN KEARNEY (STIRLING, SCOTLAND) The Rupture of History: Nationalistic Abuse of Oral and Literary Poetry in Nazi Germany. The Case of Agnes Miegel ISABELLE PEERE(BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE) Le chant des Belges en 1914-18 – l’élan d’une nation GERALD PORTER (VAASA, FINLAND) “To Tread on the Neck of the Czar”: Imitation and Disorder in the Historical Song LIINA SAARLO (TARTU, ESTONIA) Searching for Art and History in Folksongs STUDYING THE NATIONS: TEXTS AND TRADITIONS VALENTINA BOLD (GLASGOW, SCOTLAND) Frank Miller (1854-1944): Scotland’s Forgotten Collector KATHERINE CAMPBELL (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND) William Christie: Some Sources for Traditional Ballad Airs MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE (ABERYSTWYTH, WALES) From Druids to Dairymaids: Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826) and Welsh Oral Tradition LENE HALSKOV HANSEN (MERN, DENMARK) The Love of Dance in Medieval Denmark or Whatever Happened to the Chain Dance in Danish Ballad Research? EMILY LYLE (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND) Songs from South-West Scotland, 1825-1830: Motherwell’s Personal Records in Relation to Records in Crawfurd’s Collection TIIU JAAGO (TARTU, ESTONIA) Lyric Folk Songs of Karuse Parish in West Estonia JANIKA ORAS (TARTU, ESTONIA) Searching for the Singer in Archive Texts SINGING AND SHARING: CUSTOMS AND CONCEPTS FRANCES J. FISCHER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND) Gender Imbalance in Ballad Baby Births COZETTE GRIFFIN-KREMER (BREST, FRANCE) The French Muguet (Lily-of-the-Valley) in Song AADDO LINTROP (TARTU, ESTONIA) Divination in Estonian Regi-Songs MARTIN LOVELACE (ST. JOHN’ S, CANADA) Neighbours and Night Visits in the Song Repertoire of Clarence Blois RUTA MUKTUPAVELA (RIGA, LATVIA) Weaning Traditions in Latvian Folksongs and Ethnographical Materials ANDREW C. ROUSE (PÉCS, HUNGARY) Telling the Time: The Popular Concept of Time in Song DIALOGUES OF GENRES: HERDER’ S LEGACY ENLARGED MARTIN BOIKO (RIGA, LATVIA) Balkan and Baltic Vocal Polyphonies: Comparative Aspects HANS KUHN (CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA) The Melodies of Icelandic Rímur MARI SARV (TARTU, ESTONIA) Possible Points of Convergence in the Metrical History of Estonian and Latvian Folk Songs DAVID ATKINSON (LONDON, ENGLAND) The English ‘Maid’ and the Ballad Idea BAIBA BELA AND IEVA GARDA(RIGA, LATVIA) The Link Between Real-Life Experiences and the Latvian Literary Ballad MARJETKA GOLEŽ KAUýIý (LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA) “The Tenth Daughter”: From a Fairy Tale to Contemporary Literature WILLIAM BERNARD MC CARTHY (KITTERY, MAINE, U.S.A.) Drawn from the Yarrow Stream: A Variant of John Logan’s “Braes of Yarrow” in Oral Tradition J. J. DIAS MARQUES (FARO, PORTUGAL) “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” Theme in Portuguese Balladry B?RBALA STRODA (RIGA, LATVIA) The Use of Folk Poetry in Fantasy Genre Literatureweiterlesen