Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America

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WEeK #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Overview: Women as Carriers, Creators, Conservers and Collectors of Tradition
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