Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

7/1/1973 - 6/30/1974

Funding Totals

$18,000.00 (approved)
$18,000.00 (awarded)


The History of Epic and Ballad in the Balkans

FAIN: FA-10592-73

Albert B. Lord
Center for the Study of Oral Literature (Cambridge, MA 02138)

To write a history of epic and ballad in the Balkans. Its chapters will deal with the geographical distribution of the several kinds of narrative song in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania, and with their development from ancient times to present.