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.... JAYANTA KUMAR RAY Calcutta University Malushdhi and Rajula: A Ballad from Kumaun (India) as Sung by Gopi Das. By K O N R A D MEISSNER. 3 vols. Part 1: Kumaunl text, translation, and appendixes; 291 pp. Part 2: commentary; 221 pp. Part 3: glossary; 260 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1985. DM 124...

...Robert H. Brower The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan . By James T. Araki . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . xvi, 289 , Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 342...

...Charles J. Wivell Ballad of the Hidden Dragon . Translated with an Introduction by M. Dolezelova-Velingerova and J. I. Crump . New York : Oxford University Press , 1971 . 128 pp. Appendix, Bibliography and Glossary. $11.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972...

..., that it is a very large, immensely detailed, extremely confused, and highly inaccurate compilation of second-hand information about Chinese literature. And let me express a fervent hope that it will be superseded by something better before it has done too much damage. DAVID HAWKES Oxford University Ballads...

...Joan L. Erdman Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan . By Daniel Neuman and Shubha Chaudhuri , with Komal Kothari . Calcutta : Seagull Books , 2006 . xx , 320 pp. $370.00/Rs 1495 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... famous for collections of witty kyōshi, while Hatanaka Tanomo (Dōmyaku Sensii) revived the Chinese “folk song style ballad” as a vehicle for descriptions of daily life in and around Kyoto. Because kyōshi was the product of a unique conjunction of literary, social, and political factors, it was almost...

..., because, in the concluding chapter, he assures readers that he has tried to provide a "valid analysis" rather than an "unjust stereotype." Meanwhile, in the previous chapters, the damage is done somewhat irreparably. JAYANTA KUMAR RAY Calcutta University Malushdhi and Rajula: A Ballad from Kumaun (India...

... the introduction to the first volume is disappointing in this regard. Meissner gives little historical or literary context for the ballad, but he makes sure that we know that his tape recorder was "powered by Indian flash light batteries." There is almost no musicological discussion. Section vii...

... divides these poems into two categories. "Dastan-like" masnavis have "relatively extensive and developed narratives with a multi-layered plot," "excessive fairy-tale fabulousness," and "an invariably happy end." By contrast, "ballad-like" masnavis have "short and simple (sometimes even uninteresting...

... AND J. I. CRUMP. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 128 pp. Appendix, Bibliography and Glossary. $11.25. Ballad of the Hidden Dragon (Liu Chih-yuan chu-fang-tiao,) is one of the earliest examples of the Northern ballad-narrative form which scholars believe was the primary source for the musical...

... review is divided into three parts, respectively entitled "The Lord of Govardhan Hill," "The Sant Poets of Maharastra, and "Ballads and Legends of North India," which represent three major areas of Vaudeville's interests outside her well-known books on Kabir, Jnandev, Tulsidas's Ramcaritmanas, and other...

... literature traditionally excluded from elite traditions, such as Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250–1450 , The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun , Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language , and Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology...

..., knows the important role opera (and solo or duo performance genres, such as ballads) played in it; and one cannot understand opera or ballads without understanding their music. The problem is at least as far as Cantonese opera, or Yueju, the subject of this book, is concerned the compositional...

... "relatively extensive and developed narratives with a multi-layered plot," "excessive fairy-tale fabulousness," and "an invariably happy end." By contrast, "ballad-like" masnavis have "short and simple (sometimes even uninteresting and meagre)" plots, are "devoid of any magic adventures," and culminate always...

... literature into the fictional medium. We will examine the manner in which they are used in two chapters of Maild Anchal, chapters 11 and 24. In Chapter 11, portions of the traditional ballad "Suranga and Sadabrij" are juxtaposed with the narrative recounting Khalasl's courtship of the young widow Phuliya.42...

...), both teenth-century China. indispensable links in the unfolding of the plot To students of Chinese oral performing litera- of the play. In a narrative ballad, each of the ture, The Peach Blossom Fan should be of specialthree comments on the events of the play. The interest. The playwright's art...

... sermon-ballads (sekkyo-bushi) and their reciters, and then describes three seventeenth-century works in detail. Themes of birth, death, rebirth, estrangement, reunion, illness, and healing permeate these ballads, as they do the Chujohime legends and the sources surveyed by Ruch. That these chapters were...

... (Six Paths of Transmigration), or held similar expectations about Hell. Matisoff s essay discusses the history of the little-known sermon-ballads (sekkyo-bushi) and their reciters, and then describes three seventeenth-century works in detail. Themes of birth, death, rebirth, estrangement, reunion...

... Chinese popular culture, as I am, knows the important role opera (and solo or duo performance genres, such as ballads) played in it; and one cannot understand opera or ballads without understanding their music. The problem is at least as far as Cantonese opera, or Yueju, the subject of this book...

... of Rajput kings and queens was glorified in ballads, drama, narrative poetry, and romantic fiction. The establishment of British rule found its expression in eulogies and poems; it met with a sense of nostalgia for the past, and became a major factor in bringing an awareness of nationalism to Indians...