Erscheint: August 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Only True Folksongs in English
American Ballad Scholarship, 1855-1915
Verlag:
University Press of Mississippi Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34785957
EAN: 9781496864017
Erscheint: August 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 147.–
Beschreibung
The Only True Folksongs in English: American Ballad Scholarship, 1855-1915. uncovers how nineteenth-century American scholars including the children of farmers, sail makers, and ministers set out to prove that a young republic could, in fact, have its own folk tradition. According to nationalist thought of the time, a true nation required a "folk"—an ancient, undivided people with a distinct spirit expressed in timeless ballads. The United States, as the first modern state, lacked this past and therefore, supposedly, lacked any authentic folk culture. Yet between 1855 and 1915, a group of scholars—James Russell Lowell, Francis James Child, William Wells Newell, Francis Barton Gummere, George Lyman Kittredge, and John Avery Lomax—along with poet Katharine Lee Bates, rose to the challenge. Through their writings, these intellectuals defined what counted as "traditional popular poetry," discovered home-grown American ballads, and established ballad study as central to emerging disciplines like literary studies, anthropology, and folklore. Their work paved the way for the collection of hundreds of American-made folksongs and helped forge a national identity rooted not in race or ancestry but in the songs of ordinary people.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Michael J. Bell
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 336