Calendar

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

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Fall 2005
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