B allads reflects the need for continued literary, folkloristic, musical, sociological, historical, and cultural research in the field of our vast heritage of ballads and songs A nd reaffirms the principle of openness of the Kommission für Volksdichtung by inviting contributions from anyone interested in ballads and songs while at the same time aiming at new standards of originality and excellence S ongs – provides a platform for the discussion of ballads and songs in an international context and emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity and international co-operation I international recognizes the need for linguistic diversity by accepting contributions in German, French, and English in order to produce a series of publications that provides a BASIS for future research by the international community of ballad and song scholars S tudies Sigrid Rieuwerts (General Editor)

General Editor’s Preface            vii Acknowledgements            x What to Do with Folklore? Wohin mit der Folklore? Que peut-on faire avec le folklore?            1 Introduction            4 Differences and Similarities between Traditional and Classical Singing: The Question of Visualizing Songs            9 What is Folklore – French Quadrille, a Slovenian Idea, European Graduation Parade or Winning the Guinness World Record?            17 Folk Dance on the Stage            28 Hidden Behind the Transcriptions: Men and Women as Bearers of Slovenian Ballads            41 The Ballad and the Ascent of Literature            56 A Story’s Cultural and Narratological Potential for Change            69 Two Ballads and the Return to the Text            85 Animals as “Beings from Other Worlds”: Deconstructing Animality/Humanity in the Poetry of Jure Detela and Miklavž Komelj            101 Folktales Intertextuality in Svetlana Makarovič’s Svetlana’s Fairytales            113 The Anthropology of Animals – Paradox and/or Necessity            123 The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids: The Animalistic, the Wondrous and the Childlike in Croatian Literature of the Second Half of the 19th Century            140 The Role of Animals in Conceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Croatian Ethnographic Data            153 Notes on Contributors            165