A History of Catalan Folk Literature is the fruit of a collaborative effort between fifteen researchers from various universities and research centres who have joined forces to create a broader study of Catalan folk literature that addresses the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories in their entirety.
Since the thirteenth century, Catalan culture has created a rich and abundant literary legacy, and since the mid-nineteenth century this has been complemented by a tradition of folklore studies that remains very much alive today. Within this comparatively recent discipline, folk literature has played a particularly important role.
The book presents the evolution of Catalan folk literature studies in each of the areas that make up the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories referred to above. The period considered stretches from the mid-nineteenth century, when the beginnings of a scientific interest in folklore emerged across Europe, to the present day.
Author(s): Carme Oriol, Emili Samper
Series: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Amsterdam
A History of Catalan Folk Literature
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Catalonia
Catalonia: The Romantic period
The beginnings of interest in Catalan folk literature: The Romantic period
Literary folklore
Folk poetry and folktales: Manuel Milà i Fontanals and Marià Aguiló i Fuster
The Renaixença and the Floral Games
From popularisation to academic study: Francesc Pelai Briz i Fernández and Francesc de Sales Maspons i Labrós
Female folklorists of the Renaixença: Maria de Bell-lloch and Agna de Valldaura
Folktales, songs and proverbs: Jacint Verdaguer and Sebastià Farnés
Excursionist folklore
The Catalan Folklore Section and its publications
Two examples: Pau Bertran i Bros and Cels Gomis i Mestre
Catalonia: The classical period: From folklore studies to the great archiving projects
Folklore studies in the first third of the twentieth century
Folklore and feminism
The institutions and women’s access to culture
The School for Governesses and other Professions for Women
The Women’s Cultural Institute and Popular Library
The Excursionist Centre of Catalonia
Rossend Serra i Pagès and the academic folklorists
Maria Baldó i Massanet (1884–1964)
Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocas (1883–1961)
Adelaida Ferré i Gomis (1881–1955)
Sara Llorens i Carreras (1881–1954)
Joana Vidal i Tarragó (1882–1957)
Women folklorists
Rossend Serra i Pagès and the great folklore archiving projects
Rossend Serra i Pagès (1863–1929)
The archiving projects
The Archive of Ethnography and Folklore of Catalonia (1915–1945)
The Popular Song Book of Catalonia (1922–2012)
The Archive of Popular Traditions (1928–1935)
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Research from the 1940s
Joan Amades i Gelats (1890–1959)
Catalonia: The modern period: From resurgence to consolidation
Contributions of academics and scholars
Josep Romeu i Figueras (1917–2004)
Josep Massot i Muntaner (1941–)
Resumption, renewal and consolidation
Resumption (1978–1989)
The ethnological tradition: Studies of folklore history
The literary tradition: Describing the object of study
Institutional support
Associations and their research
Ethnomusicology studies
Recovering works of folk literature
Renewal (1990–1999)
The Colloquium on Traditional Song
The Folklore Studies Conference
Broadening the scope of research: Contributions from scientific disciplines
The creation of the Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University
The Centre for the Promotion of Catalan Folk and Traditional Culture
New editions and reprints of works of folk literature
Consolidation (2000–)
Publications
University research projects
Research networks
The Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University, a space for the promotion and dissemination of research
From the Centre for the Promotion of Catalan Folk and Traditional Culture to the Folk Culture Documentation Centre
The Balearic Islands
The beginnings: Between the Enlightenment and Romanticism
Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847–1915)
Mateu Obrador i Bennàsser (1852–1909)
The first four decades of the twentieth century (1901–1940): Folklore archiving and the great projects
The Bolletí del Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana (1901–1936)
Tresor dels Avis (1922–1928)
The contribution of the Balearic Islands to the Popular Song Book of Catalonia (1922–2012)
The authors: Collection, publication and dissemination
Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862–1932)
Francesc Camps i Mercadal (1852–1929)
Andreu Ferrer i Ginard (1887–1975)
Isidor Macabich i Llobet (1883–1973)
Foreign folklorists
Research and publication during the dictatorship (1941–1970)
Rafael Ginard i Bauçà (1899–1976)
Francesc de Borja Moll (1903–1991)
Joan Castelló i Guasch (1911–1984)
The educated laymen and the consolidation of folklorism
Andreu Estarellas i Pasqual (1890–1981)
Antoni Galmés i Riera (1907–1989)
Bartomeu Ensenyat i Estrany (1917–1998)
Two priests, two approaches
Francesc Bonafè i Barceló (1908–1994)
Gabriel Llompart i Moragues (1927–2017)
The foreign perspective
The resumption and renewal of folklore studies
Andreu Ferrer and the Folklore and Bibliographic Archive for the Balearic Islands
The Ciutadella Folklore Group
Folklorists and research in the university system
The Valencian Country and El Carxe
Valencian folk literature between 1873 and 1939
The Renaixença and Romanticism (1873–1912)
Valencian excursionism
The first collections of musical folklore
Joaquim Martí i Gadea
Francesc Badenes Dalmau
Institutionalisation: The beginnings of folklore as a discipline (1912–1939)
Centre for Valencian Culture
Castellón Culture Society
Contribution to the Popular Song Book of Catalonia
The Valencian contribution to the Archive of Catalan Legends
Francesc Martínez i Martínez
Adolf Salvà i Ballester
Valencian folk literature: The post-war period, Francoism, standardisation and renewal
The post-war period and Francoism (1940–1975)
Francoism and folklore
Folklore studies in the Franco institutions: The Women’s Section and the Spanish Institute of Musicology
Folklorist musicians: The Valencian popular songbook
Manuel Sanchis Guarner (1911–1981)
Enric Valor i Vives (1911–2000)
Standardisation and renewal (1976–)
The teacher-folklorists
Folklore in institutions: The Folk Music Workshops and the Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Culture Institute
Reissues and the recovery of unpublished works
Academic and scientific approaches to folklore: The state of the art
The folk literature of El Carxe
The Aragonese Strip
The Aragonese Strip
Catalan folk literature in the Aragonese Strip
Through the closing stages of the Franco regime
Period of transition
Lo Molinar and Bllat colrat!
Latest contributions
Margin notes
Andorra
The first studies, an outside perspective: Travellers, excursionists, folklorists and ethnographers
The growth of cultural associations and the institutionalisation of research: A question of identity
The technification of research: The Andorran Archive of ethnography and studies of folk literature
Northern Catalonia
Northern Catalonia
Folk literature in Northern Catalonia
Second half of the nineteenth century
First half of the twentieth century
Twentieth century: 1960s to 1980s
Late twentieth century and early twenty-first century
Conclusion and a look to the future
L’Alguer
Catalonia recuperates its memory
The young members of La Palmavera and the connection between Catalan and Italian folklorists
Antoni Ciuffo, the champion of L’Alguer folklore in Catalonia
The work on folklore by Joan Palomba
The Archive of Ethnography and Folklore of Catalonia in L’Alguer
New collections of folk literature
References
Index
