Proiectul „Corpusului baladei populare” în epistolarul Dumitru Caracostea – Ion Muşlea
The Project “Traditional Ballad Corpus” in the Correspondence between Dumitru Caracostea and Ion Muşlea

Summary/Abstract: The present paper concerns an important project of Romanian Folklore studies, namely The Corpus of the Romanian Ballad, as reflected in letters written between 1947-1965 by professor Dumitru Caracostea, the president of The Folklore Commission of the Romanian Academy, and Ion Mușlea, the founder of The Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy. We are pursuing the following aspects: the dynamics of the institutional structures in charge of folklore research between 1947-1949, professional networks within the discipline at that time, the main texts and theories elaborated by the two authors during the correspondence.

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