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- Title
Gathering the voices of the people? Cecil Sharp, cultural hybridity, and the folk music of Appalachia.
- Authors
Gold, John R.; Revill, George
- Abstract
This paper examines the four trips that the English folk music collector Cecil Sharp made to Appalachia (1916-1918) as a case-study through which to explore the relationships between nationhood and place identity. The first parts consider background on the theoretical underpinnings of folk music collection and about Sharp's earlier work. We then investigate how Sharp and his companion Maud Karpeles initially came to collect what they felt were English folk songs, but gradually had to come to terms with Appalachia's culturally heterogeneous folk traditions. This final part draws parallels with Béla Bartók's approach to the Hungarian Gypsy tradition.
- Subjects
APPALACHIAN Region; ENGLISH folk songs; SHARP, Cecil, 1859-1924; FOLK music; CULTURAL identity; TOURS; COLLECTORS &; collecting; COUNTRY music; NATIONAL music
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2006, Vol 65, Issue 1/2, p55
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10708-006-0007-z