TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiSavino,Elizabeth
TI  - Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's forgotten ballad collector 
SN  - 9780813178547
AV  - ML423.F76 D57 2020eb
U1  - 782.42162/130769 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - French, Katherine Jackson,
KW  - Ethnomusicologists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women musicians
KW  - Musicians
KW  - Ballads, English
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folk songs, English
KW  - Women
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ethnomusicologues
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Musiciennes
KW  - Musiciens
KW  - Ballades anglaises
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Chansons folkloriques anglaises
KW  - Femmes
KW  - États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Part 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Part 3 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "In 1917, Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp released their momentous collection of ballads, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, establishing the precedent for all other ballad publications to follow. Yet this genre-defining collection only became as influential as it did because of a broken promise seven years earlier. Katherine Jackson French, an accomplished musician and the second woman in history to earn a PhD, had been promised by Berea College to have her collection of ballads published in 1910. Unfortunately, they never followed through with this publication. A woman who perpetually lived with one foot in two worlds, French was a bridge between eras and regions, continually going back and forth between the world of the rural South and Northern academia. Had her volume been published in 1910, the crucial first impression of Appalachian balladry would have been drastically different. Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector answers the many questions surrounding the life and work of Katherine Jackson French. In part one of the manuscript, author Elizabeth DiSavino shares French's life story for the first time in its entirety. The second half of the manuscript is devoted to the discussion and analysis of French's ballads. The first section relates the history of French's interest and beginnings in the genre, the next details her attempts at publishing her collection of ballads, and the final chapter compares her ballads with those published in Campbell and Sharp's compilation. DiSavino concludes the manuscript with the claim that, had French's work been published at Berea in 1910 as originally promised to her, the defining features of Appalachian folk music would look very different than they do today. Katherine Jackson French would likely have gone down in history as the mother of American balladry"--
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