The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 August 2025
- ISBN 9780190080778
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1194 pages
- Size 246x175x68 mm
- Weight 2087 g
- Language English 806
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a broad survey of the folklore of the Slavic and East European world: Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics, as well as Central and Southeastern Europe. The volume contains forty-three chapters that offer an array of distinctive yet comparable traditions and genres. It includes folklore of the life cycle; calendrical-cycle traditions, magic, and folk belief; folktales, epic, lyric songs, proverbs, and jokes; local Romani, Muslim, and Jewish musical genres; and material culture. The handbook presents an assortment of oral traditions for an audience of folklorists, students, and scholars who wish to explore the rich expressive culture of the Slavic and East European world.
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The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups extending from the eastern zones of Russia to the western borders of the Czech Republic and from Estonia along the Baltic Sea to Greece at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. The volume presents this broad world area - loosely connected by circumstances of geography, history, and politics - as a large and diverse cultural continuum.
In forty-three chapters written by scholars ranging from folklorists who are natives of the Slavic and East European region to British and North American specialists in the field, Editor-in-Chief Margaret Hiebert Beissinger presents an extensive array of distinctive yet comparable traditions, rituals, and genres. Divided into five sections, the volume includes: the folklore and lyric genres of the life cycle (wedding, birth, and death rites); calendrical-cycle traditions, dance, magic, and folk belief; traditional prose and poetic narrative; oral traditions among minority ethno-religious and racial communities, as well as folk and popular music and song; and the folklore of everyday life, including aphoristic verbal forms and material culture. The volume's chapters focus on folklore of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, from the very "traditional," to contemporary issues that influence folklore and expressive culture, such as life-changing pandemics, ethnic conflict, and war, as well as evolving gender roles. The handbook presents a wide assortment of materials for an audience of students and specialists alike: folklorists, ethnographers, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and literature scholars, as well as others who wish to explore the rich oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world.
Table of Contents:
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Introduction
Margaret Hiebert Beissinger
Part I: Life-Cycle Folklore
Weddings
1. Ukrainian Wedding Rituals
Natalie Kononenko
2. Russian Wedding Songs
Olga Levaniouk
3. Serbian Wedding Practices in Post-War Kosovo
Sanja Zlatanovic
4. Tambura Bands and Sonic Flag Rituals in Croatian Weddings
Ian MacMillen
5. Marriage and Wedding Traditions among the Cortorar Roma in Romania
Cătălina Tesăr
Childbirth
6. Estonian Runosongs on Childcare, Pregnancy, Birth, and Intimacy
Mari Sarv Väina
7. The Folklore of Childbirth in Russia
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Death Rites
8. Greek Death Rituals and Lament
Gail Holst-Warhaft
9. Customary Practices of Death and Mourning in Albania
Bledar Kondi
10. Death Rites and Laments in Russia
Elizabeth Warner
Part II: The Traditional Calendar, Magic, and Folk Belief
Folklore of the Seasonal Cycle
11. Baltic Calendrical Folklore
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
12. Seasonal Rituals, Traditional Dance, and Ethnochoreology in Serbia
Selena Rakočević
13. Folklore of the Seasonal Cycle in Croatia: The Lastovo Carnival
Iva Niemčić
14. Dance in Calendrical Community Celebrations in Romania
Liz Mellish
Magic and the Power of Words
15. Magic in Hungary: Verbal Charms, Benedictions, and Exorcisms
Dániel Bárth
16. "Inverted Behavior" in South Slavic Ritual and Magic
Maria Vivod
Varieties of Folk Belief
17. Eschatology and Peasant Visions in Moldovan Folk Religion
James A. Kapaló
18. Songs, Rites, and Identity in the Religious Folklore of Latvia and Lithuania
Michael Strmiska, Gatis Ozoli¸ Odeta Rudling, and Dignen, Üdre
19. Folk Belief and Religion in Ukraine: Creating the Charisma of Place
Mariya Lesiv
Part III: Oral Traditional Narrative
Poetry: Epic and Ballad
20. Byliny: Russian Folk Epic
Natalie Kononenko
21. Dumy: Ukrainian Folk Epic
Natalie Kononenko
22. South Slavic Epic and the Philology of the Border
David F. Elmer
23. South Slavic Women's Ballads
Aida Vidan
Prose: Folktale and Legend
24. Folk Tales in Greece
Maria Kaliambou
25. Slovak Tales and the Collections of Pavol Dobšinský
Jana Piroščáková
26. Vladimir Propp and Russian Wondertales
Sibelan Forrester
27. Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans
Dorian Jurić
28. Polish Urban Legends as a Folklore Genre
Marta Wójcicka
Part IV: Music, Song, Identity, and Performance
Ethnoreligious Identity: Music and Song
29. The Sevdalinka as Traditional Bosnian Love Song
Nirha Efendić
30. The Traditional Yiddish Folk Song
Michael Lukin
31. Klezmer Music in Eastern Europe and America
Walter Zev Feldman
Balkan Romani Music Traditions
32. Romani (Gypsy) Music in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Lozanka Peycheva
33. The Music of Urban Lautari in Southern Romania
Speranţa Rădulescu and Margaret H. Beissinger
34. Romani Musical Labor and Cultural Politics in Southeastern Serbia
Alexander Marković
Folk and Popular Music in Post-communist Eastern Europe
35. Bluegrass as Folk Music in the Czech Republic
Lee Bidgood
36. Folktron: Folklore Influences in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Music
Asya Draganova
37. Albanian-Language Etnopop and the Emergence of a "Balkan" Regional Music Sphere
Jane C. Sugarman
Part V: The Folklore of Everyday Life
Folk Wit, Wisdom, and the Spoken Word
38. Chastushki
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva
39. Wise and Humorous Words: Hungarian Proverbs, Riddles, and Jokes
Anna T. Litovkina, Katalin Vargha, Péter Barta, and Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt
Material Culture
40. Tradition and Adaptation in Russian Folk Art
Alison Hilton
41. Folk Art Reassessed: Entangled Material Culture in Rural Romania
Alexandra Urdea and Magdalena Buchczyk
42. Foodways in Moldova
Jennifer Cash
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