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Article Excerpt
By David Atkinson. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. [xiv, 310 p. ISBN 0-7546-0634-1. $79.95.] Bibliography, discography, index of ballads and songs, index.
Over the past thirty years one of the concerns expressed by scholars of ballad studies was that researchers might be concentrating wholly on textual study to the exclusion of the music. If so, they wondered whether theories of text transmission might be tainted. As scholars began to question their focus, the issues related to the singers' presentation of the ballads took on more importance. And although D. K. Wilgus wrote and spoke about the importance of beginning the study of ballads by concentrating on the text, he was careful to redefine "text" to include the music (D. K. Wilgus, "The Text Is the Thing," Journal of American Folklore 86 [1973]: 241-52). During this time ballad scholars were generally aligned into two categories: comparativists or contextualists. Comparativists looked at the ballads and their variants for their trails and then would arrange...
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