Project information
Christological Broadside Ballads in oral tradition (Christological Broadside Ballads)

The project under question is focused on the oral tradition of Czech broadside ballads, their production, reception, media and dissemination. These will be studied by using Czech religious folk songs with Christological motifs collected in rural areas of Moravia and Silesia during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. This is unique material, gathered by folk song collectors from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century and stored in the collection and documentation funds at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. An experienced, interdisciplinary international research team will process this material in all its relevant components: philological, ethnological, ethnomusicological and hymnological. An English monograph will be the main result of the project, will present for the first time the unique material of Czech Czech broadside ballads with Christological motifs to foreign researchers, accompanied by interdisciplinary commentaries, samples with musical notations, and scholarly studies.