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Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the Britis >> Content Detail



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WEeK #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Overview: Women as Carriers, Creators, Conservers and Collectors of Tradition
2The First Folk Revival: 1723/1765 Through the Early Nineteenth Century: Transatlantic ConnectionsWeek 1 reading response questions due
3The First Folk Revival Part II: The Case Study of Motherwell and Agnes Lyle, and Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3)Week 2 reading response questions due
4The "Classic" Collections of Francis James ChildWeek 3 reading response questions due
5The Second Anglo-American Folk Revival: Cecil Sharp and The Founding of the English Country Dance and Folk Song Society; Mary Neal; Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell in Appalachia; Emma Bell MilesWeek 4 reading response questions due
6African-American Women's Folk Traditions: The Legacy from the Nineteenth Century. Spirituals on the Georgia Sea Islands as a Case Study of Process and PreservationWeek 5 reading response questions due
7Early and Down Home Blues: Three Pioneers: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Big Mama ThorntonWeek 6 reading response questions due
8Mountain Women: Almeda Riddle, Jean Ritchie, Emma Dusenbury (New England: Helen Harkness Flanders)Week 7 reading response questions due
9Alan Lomax "Portraits" in the United States: Vera Hall, Texas GladdenWeek 8 reading response questions due
10Alan Lomax Portraits in Ireland and Scotland: Jeannie Robertson and Margaret BarryWeek 9 reading response questions due
11The Music of Political Communities: Miners' Union Movement and the Movement for Civil Rights: Aunt Molly Jackson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bernice ReagonWeek 10 reading response questions due
12The Third Folk Revival: Washington Square; Later Celebrity Performers: Joan Baez and Janis JoplinWeek 11 reading response questions due

Final research paper due

 








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