ETHICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN FOLK BALLADS - THE 31st INTERNATIONAL BALLAD CONFERENCE BUDAPEST, 21st–23rd APRIL 2001
ETHICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN FOLK BALLADS - THE 31st INTERNATIONAL BALLAD CONFERENCE BUDAPEST, 21st–23rd APRIL 2001

Summary/Abstract: Since 1966 ballad researchers have met regularly, generally annually, to discuss research themes and results. In 2001 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ethnology and European Folklore Institute hosted the meeting in Budapest and the main journal of Hungarian ethnology is publishing the papers. This volume of articles is closely linked to the earlier work, furthering the results and opening new perspectives for future research. In 1966 in Freiburg Rolf W. Brednich set up the working group known as the Kommission für Volksdichtung, as a sub-committee of SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore). It worked under his leadership right up to 1983, when the ballad researchers David Buchan and Stefan Top were elected chairmen. Since 2000 Luisa del Giudice has headed the Kommission. Over the past three decades the members have also been replaced and there has been considerable change in the nature of research and the areas of interest.

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