A folkloristic analysis of representative eastern North Carolina religious and secular folksongs sung by Miss Janice Hardison / by Linda Miller Barrow.
| Author/creator | Barrow, Linda Miller |
| Other author | East Carolina University. Department of English. |
| Format | Theses and dissertations |
| Publication Info | 1978. |
| Description | 93 leaves : music ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- A folkloristic biography of Miss Hardison -- A survey of scholarly approaches to the folksong -- The songs of Miss Hardison. Secular songs ("Go tell Aunt Rody" ; "Hush, little baby" ; "Copper kettle" ; "Bury me beneath the willow") ; Religious songs ("If I could hear my mother pray again" ; "Lord, build me a cabin in the corner of glory land" ; "Keep on the firing line" ; "How beautiful heaven must be" ; "I'll fly away") -- Conclusions. |
| Summary | The purpose of this study is to transcribe, to classify, and to analyze a sample of the folksongs of eastern North Carolina. In order to determine exactly what a folksong is and how the various kinds of folksongs differ and to establish what has been done in the study of the folksong, I examine first what scholars have written about the folksong; and I study its origins, its transmission, its function, its meaning, and its variants. Material for this study has been transcribed from a tape of Miss Janice Hardison (now Mrs. Walter Faulkner) singing religious and secular folksongs which she learned as a girl. The tape is one of several in the East Carolina University Folklore Archive which lend themselves to such study. (My study is the first of what is anticipated to be a series of studies of the folksong in eastern North Carolina.) I compare Miss Hardison's songs with those songs of other singers, collectors, and editors to determine the similarities and differences in the folksongs and to arrive at some conclusions about the folksong in eastern North Carolina. It is particularly significant that in no instance are the versions of a song studied in this thesis limited to eastern North Carolina. Some songs have gained greater popularity and wider acclaim than others; yet it is evident that the folksinging culture of eastern North Carolina is very similar to the folksinging tradition of other parts of the state and of the South. |
| General note | "Presented to the faculty of the Department of English ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of English in English." |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 1978. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: leaves [91]-93. |
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