This article discusses the ballad as one of the most enigmatic genre structures in both Slovenia and Europe as a whole. The Slovenian ballad is presented within the international context, along with analysis and synthesis of its fundamental textual, musical, and contextual characteristics. The article is the first attempt to research and redefine this genre in Slovenia and because of its European context will be most useful for folklorists in Slovenia and in Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29260077
This article presents ritual elements and ritualism as concealed in or revealed through folk song as a special topic related to the intersection of perspectives in ethnological and folklore studies. This article determines the significance of recording individual songs with ritual backgrounds after the limits of individual branches of research had already been delineated and when the context had been forgotten or did not seem significant to the transcriber.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28572205