Katherine Jackson French (eBook)

Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector

Elizabeth DiSavino (Autor)

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2020
274 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7854-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University -- and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so -- Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of traditional Kentucky ballads, which should have been her crowning scholarly achievement, never saw print. Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history and left the field to northerner Olive Dame Campbell and English folklorist Cecil Sharp, setting Appalachian studies on a foundation marred by stereotypes and misconceptions.

Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector tells the story of what might have been. Drawing on never-before-seen artifacts from French's granddaughter, Elizabeth DiSavino reclaims the life and legacy of this pivotal scholar by emphasizing the ways her work shaped and could reshape our conceptions about Appalachia. In contrast to the collection published by Campbell and Sharp, French's ballads elevate the status of women, give testimony to the complexity of balladry's ethnic roots and influences, and reveal more complex local dialects. Had French published her work in 1910, stereotypes about Appalachian ignorance, misogyny, and homogeneity may have diminished long ago. Included in this book is the first-ever publication of Katherine Jackson French's English-Scottish Ballads from the Hills of Kentucky.

Autor

lt;P>Elizabeth DiSavino is assistant professor of music at Berea College. She has presented at the Appalachian Studies Association conference and was selected as a spoken word winner for the Women of Appalachia Project. Her work has been published in the Paterson Literary Review, and she has received grants from the Hutchins Library Sound Archives and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Inhalt

The Strength and Sap of the StockYoung Lady from LondonAct TwoA Fortnight of BalladryBerea BelovedA Comparison of the ballads of Katherine Jackson and Olive Dame Campbell/Cecil Sharp

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 35 b&w halftones, 1 map, 6 tables
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: aauw • American Association of University Women • Appalachia • Appalachian music • Banjo • barbara allen • Folk music • james watt raine • Kentucky • Shreveport • william goodell frost • women, ballads • women educators • women in academia • women's development club
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7854-1 / 0813178541
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7854-7 / 9780813178547