| 1 |
Overview: Women as Carriers, Creators, Conservers and Collectors of Tradition |
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| 2 |
The First Folk Revival: 1723/1765 Through the Early Nineteenth Century: Transatlantic Connections |
Week 1 reading response questions due |
| 3 |
The 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 |
| 4 |
The "Classic" Collections of Francis James Child |
Week 3 reading response questions due |
| 5 |
The 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 Miles |
Week 4 reading response questions due |
| 6 |
African-American Women's Folk Traditions: The Legacy from the Nineteenth Century. Spirituals on the Georgia Sea Islands as a Case Study of Process and Preservation |
Week 5 reading response questions due |
| 7 |
Early and Down Home Blues: Three Pioneers: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton |
Week 6 reading response questions due |
| 8 |
Mountain Women: Almeda Riddle, Jean Ritchie, Emma Dusenbury (New England: Helen Harkness Flanders) |
Week 7 reading response questions due |
| 9 |
Alan Lomax "Portraits" in the United States: Vera Hall, Texas Gladden |
Week 8 reading response questions due |
| 10 |
Alan Lomax Portraits in Ireland and Scotland: Jeannie Robertson and Margaret Barry |
Week 9 reading response questions due |
| 11 |
The Music of Political Communities: Miners' Union Movement and the Movement for Civil Rights: Aunt Molly Jackson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bernice Reagon |
Week 10 reading response questions due |
| 12 |
The Third Folk Revival: Washington Square; Later Celebrity Performers: Joan Baez and Janis Joplin |
Week 11 reading response questions due
Final research paper due |