Voices from Kilbarchan : Two versions of "The Cruel Mother" from south-west Scotland, 1825

dc.contributor.author	Andersen, Flemming G.	eng
dc.date.issued	2014-03	eng
dc.description	In what follows I shall first give an outline of the earliest extensively documented singing community in the Anglo-Scottish ballad tradition, and then present a detailed analysis of two versions of the same ballad story ("The Cruel Mother") taken down on the same day in 1825 from two singers from the same Scottish village. The fact that Motherwell's material includes alternative performances of the same ballad story from the same area allows us to get one of the earliest glimpses into ballads as a living oral tradition. We may assess at close hand the degree of variability and multiformity that is characteristic of texts in oral tradition (Foley 1998:5), and thus gain an appreciation of the ballads as a living cultural phenomenon.//	eng
dc.format.extent	22 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 29/1 (2014): 47-68.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65335
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Voices from Kilbarchan : Two versions of "The Cruel Mother" from south-west Scotland, 1825	eng