Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked YouthsUniv. Press of Mississippi, 2009 - 183 Seiten Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths by Roger deV. Renwick. A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong. Folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of the five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual data banks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights. Roger deV. Renwick is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths Roger deVeer Renwick Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2010 |
Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths Roger deVeer Renwick Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2010 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abrahams American Balladry Anglo Anglo/American folksong anglophone articulating images bearers of tradition Belden and Hudson blues ballad Bonny Birdy British ballad British broadside broadsheet broadside ballad burial instructions Butcher Boy cante-fable Caribbean catalogue songs Cecil Sharp Child ballad CHORUS collected common crab crab's Crabfish song Crabfish story creolization cultural Died for Love distinctive Dreadnought English example female Folklore folklorists genre Ging &c girl Hash House Harriers highwaymen husband incremental Isle of Cloy iteration Karpeles Laws Little Musgrave lobster Lomax lover male Matty Glow motif Muria narrative theme narrator nose oral tradition oral versions Overd pattern popular Rambling Boy REFRAIN rendition repertoire Riddles Wisely Expounded robber's Roud sang sexual singing social song's southern stanza story's sung tale tell texts textual tion tive traditional song Vaughan Williams Memorial Vincentian West Indian Wicked Youth wife Wild and Wicked Wilgus Williams Memorial Library Willie woman