Songs his mother taught him: Émile Legrand’s collection of lacemakers’ ballads
Émile Legrand was the leading scholar of modern Greek in late nineteenth-century France; he also made a collection of songs sung by his mother and her neighbours, all lacemakers, in the village of Fontenay-le-Marmion in Normandy. Lacemakers in many parts of Europe had a distinctive work culture char...
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Amsterdam University Press
2022
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