International Ballad Conference 1997

*** 27th International Ballad Conference 1997 ***

in Slovenia
(Hotel Spik, Gozd Martuljek, near Kranjska Gora)
13-19 July 1997

*Topics:

1. Contemporary interpretation of ballads
2. Ballad motifs in children's folklore
3. Ethnicity in ballads
4. Ethics in ballads
5. Miscellaneous, including fieldwork and classification

*Contact:

Dr Marjetka Golez,
Glasbenonarodopisni institut ZRC-SAZU,
Novi trg 5,
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
Tel: +386 61 125 60 68
Fax: - - - - - - 125 52 53
E-mail: gni@zrc-sazu.si

*From the printed call for papers: '... We kindly invite all those researchers who, in one way or another, come across ballad traditions in their research to participate in this conference.

We especially welcome researchers whose work is interdisciplinary or who are tackling comparative research on a specific folk ballad tradition (be it in Europe or elsewhere) which is somehow linked to the Slovenian ballad tradition.

Beside the research aspect of the conference, we would like to present to you Slovenia as a country which, with a modest territory, offers the sea, mountains, plains, limestone fields (a typical region in Slovenia called Karst) and lakes, cultural monuments etc. We shall prepare an interesting cultural evening with folk singers, musicians and interpreters of ballads.

All papers, if possible, delivered at the conference will be issued in an anthology.'