The Folk-Ballad: the illegitimate child of the popular ballad

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Francis James Child, in his 1882 book "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," collected ballads of the oral tradition but did not term them folk ballads. It is unclear of his intentions, since the term 'folklore' had been in circulation for some time, but it is possible that Childs was attempting to distinguish between popular ballads of the people and ballads of common people. In a sense, Childs saw the folk ballad as an illegitimate heir to the popular ballad, which had been replaced by the genuine art of poetry.

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Considering rhetoric's wayward child: ballad scholarship and intradisciplinary conflict

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Folklorists have explored the significance of keywords and theories but many concerns in the discourse stem from the institutional configurations of folklore studies. Francis James Child is an important transitional figure representing tensions in many English studies departments. His career marked the shift in American higher education.

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Ethnicity, nationality, and the myth of cultural heritage: a European view

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An analysis of how folklorists and ethnologists describe the concepts of ethnicity and national identity is presented. Topics include nationalism in postsocialist countries, and impact of reflexive modernization on European ethnology.

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