Topics in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality Studies

Benhabib, Seyla, and Judith Resnik. Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender. NYU Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780814776001.

Choi Hee An. A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church. Stony Brook: State University of New York Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781438457369.

[BR] = Benhabib, Seyla, and Judith Resnik. Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender . NYU Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780814776001.

Kwok Pui-lan. “Unbinding Our Feet: Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse.” Postcolonialism, Feminism & Religious Discourse. Edited by Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-lan. Routledge, 2002. pp. 62–81. ISBN: 9780415928878.

Tseng, Timothy. “Beyond Orientalism and Assimilation: The Asian American as Historical Subject.” Realizing the America of Our Hearts: Theological Voices of Asian Americans. Edited by Fumitaka Matsuoka and Eleazar S. Fernandez. Chalice Press, 2003. pp. 55–74. ISBN: 978082723518.

Balibar, Etienne. “Is There a Neo-Racism?” Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Authored by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9780860915423.

Kretsedemas, Philip. Migrants and Race in the U.S.: Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside. Routledge, 2013. Chapters 3 and 4. ISBN: 9780415658393.

McWhorter, Ladelle. Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy . Indiana University Press, 2009. Introduction and Chapter 4. ISBN: 9780253220639.

Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed , 30th anniversary edition. Continuum, 2009. pp. 43–124. ISBN: 9780826412768.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Routledge, 1995. pp. 23–28. ISBN: 9780415096225.

Kerber, Linda. “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States.” Chapter 2 in [BR].

Kwok Pui-lan. Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2005. pp. 100–121. ISBN: 9780664228835.

Kwok Pui-lan. “Sexual Morality and National Politics: Reading Biblical ‘Loose Women.’” Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women. Edited by Choi Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. Fortress Press, 2006. pp. 21–46. ISBN: 9780800635657.

Lee, Jung Young. Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology. Fortress Press, 1995. pp. 29–76. ISBN: 9780800628109.

Bhabha, Jacqueline. “The Mere Fortuity of Birth? Children, Mothers, Borders and the Meaning of Citizenship.” Chapter 5 in [BR].

Bosniak, Linda. “Citizenship, Noncitizenship and the Transnationalization of Domestic Work.” Chapter 3 in [BR].

Dauvergne, Catherine. “Globalizing Fragmentation: New Pressures on Women - Caught in the Immigration Law–Citizenship Law Dichotomy.” Chapter 10 in [BR].

Moghadam, Valerie. “Global Feminism, Citizenship and the State: Negotiating Women’s Rights in the Middle East and Africa.” Chapter 7 in [BR].

Means, Angelia. “Intercultural Political Identity: Are We There Yet?” Chapter 12 in [BR].

Cheng, Patrick S. Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality and Spirit. Seabury Books, 2013. Chapter 6, pp. 83–96. ISBN: 9781596272415.

Choi Hee An. A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church. State University of New York Press, 2016. pp. 9–114. ISBN: 9781438457369.

Copeland, M. Shawn. “Body, Representation, and Black Religious Discourse.” Postcolonialism, Feminism & Religious Discourse. Edited by Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-lan. Routledge, 2001. pp. 180–198. ISBN: 9780415928885.

Choi Hee An. A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church . State University of New York Press, 2016. pp. 115–152. ISBN: 9781438457369.

Kang, Namsoon. Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World . Chalice Press, 2013. Chapter 6. ISBN: 9780827205345.

Required Readings

Roberts, D. E. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty . Pantheon, 1997. ISBN: 9780679442264. [Excerpt: Introduction]

Grodin, Michael, Daniel Tarantola, eds. Health and Human Rights in a Changing World . Routledge, 2013, p. 647. ISBN: 9780415503990.

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Recommended Readings

Delgado, Payan, and Bacon. “Self-Hatred, Self-Doubt, and Assimilation in Latina / o Communities.” In Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups . Edited by E. J. R. David. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.

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Required Film to Watch Online

Recommended Films

“ Freedom for Birth: The Mother’s Revolution ” [U.K.] [One World Birth]

Website Resources / Reference Guides

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Biasucchi, Cara. Born in Brazil (Nascendo no Brasil) . Cara Mia Media, 2002.

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Reproductive Justice Project. Sophia Smith Production. Smith College Library, 2014.

Bass, Margaret. “On Being a Fat Black Girl in a Fat-hating Culture.” In Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Representations by African American Women . Edited by Michael Bennett, and Vanessa D. Dickerson. Rutgers University Pres, 2000, pp. 219–30. ISBN: 9780813528397.

Saguy, Abigail. What’s Wrong with Fat? Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780199377114.

Robertson, Dylan. The Size of It . Filmmakers Library, 2002.

SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Student presentations of Op-Eds · READINGS: No readings were assigned.

Karkazis, K. A. Chapters 4 and 5 in Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience . Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780822343189.

Corrin, Chris. “International and Local Interventions to Reduce Gender-based Conflict in Post-conflict Situations.” Eldis Online Information, 2004.

Gilligan, James. “A New Theory of Violence.” In P_reventing Violence_. Thames & Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 9780500282786.

Derber, Charles. Chapters 1 and 5 in The Wilding of America. Money, Mayham, and the New American Dream . Worth Publishers, 2014. ISBN: 9781464105432.

Anderson, Elijah. Chapter 1 in Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of Inner City . W. W. Norton and Company, 2000. ISBN: 9780393320787.

Hartley, Heather. “Big Pharma” in our Bedrooms: An Analysis of the Medicalization of Women’s Sexual Problems." In Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine (Advances in Gender Research) . Vol. 7. Edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, and J. J. Kronenfeld. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2003, pp. 89–129. ISBN: 9780762310586.

SES #: 13–14 · TOPICS: Presentations of / discussions of research paper · READINGS: No readings assigned.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield . Hammondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1982, chapters 4-8. ISBN: 9780140431599. (The paperback is readily available or text is on line.)

Child, Francis James. The English and the Scottish Popular Ballads . Vol. I. Northfield, MI: Loomis House Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780970702029.

Whisnant, David. All That is Native and Fine . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807841433.

Judge, Roy. “Mary Neal and the Espérance Morris.” Folk Music Journal 5, no. 5 (1989).

Roud, Steve. “Review of ‘The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp.’” Folk Music Journal 5, no. 5 (1989).

Ritchie, Jean. The Singing Family of the Cumberlands . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1955. Reprint ed. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Ware, Charles Pickard, Lucy McKim Garrison, and William Francis Allen. Slave Songs of the United States, 1867 . Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1995. ISBN: 9780486285733.

Barry, Margaret. I Sang Through The Fairs . Rounder Records 3719 (Cambridge, MA, 1998).

Jackson, Aunt Molly, Sarah Gunning, and Hazel Dickens. Coal Mining Women . Rounder Records 4025 (Cambridge, MA, 1997).

Georgia Sea Islands: Southern Journey. Vol. 12. Rounder Records CD 1712.

Robertson, Jeannie. The Queen Among the Heather . Rounder Records 1720-2 (Cambridge, MA, 1998).

Gladden, Texas. Ballad Legacy . Rounder Records 11661-1800-2.

Alabama: From Lullabies to Blues . Deep River of Song. Rounder Records 11661-1829-2.

In the literary sources for the early collectors, such as Ramsey’s Tea-Table Miscellany (1723) and Percy’s Reliques of Ancient Poetry (1765) , were women important informants?

Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “Mistaken Dichotomies.” Journal of American Folklore 101 (1988): 140-155.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. “An Introduction to Women, Music, and Culture.” In Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1989, pp. 1-23. ISBN: 9780252060571.

Percy, Thomas. The Reliques of Ancient Poetry . London, UK: J.M. Dent & Co., 1910.

Groom, Nick. The Making of Percy’s Reliques . Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1999, pp. 5-12, 21-30, 32-36, 40-49, 59-64, 73-80, 99-101, 110-119, 161-171, 223-227, and 236-239. ISBN: 9780198184591.

Gibbbon, John Murray. “Women as Folk-Song Authors.” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada XLI, series III (May 1947): 47-52.

MacDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street . Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. 58-62 and 80-91. ISBN: 9780198183952.

Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories . Cambridge, UK: Syndicate University Press, 1985, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780521312189.

Rieuwerts, Sigrid. “Allan Ramsay and the Scottish Ballads.” Aberdeen University Review LVIII, no. 201 (Spring 1999): 29-41.

Harker, Dave. Fakesong: The Manufacture of British ‘folksong’ 1700 to the Present Day . Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1985, pp. ix-37. ISBN: 9780335150663.

Buchan, David. The Ballad and the Folk . East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1997, pp. 51-86. ISBN: 9781898410676.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield . Hammondsworth, Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books, 1982, chapters 4-8. ISBN: 9780140431599.

Addison, Joseph. Excerpts from The Spectator (1711) . Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1965.

Homans, Margaret. Bearing the Word. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 1-39. ISBN: 9780226351070.

Child, Francis, ed. “The Hunting of the Cheviot.” In The English and Scottish Popular Ballads . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1965. ISBN: 9780486214092.

Bronson, Bertrand, ed. “The Hunting of the Cheviot.” In The Singing Tradition of Child’s Popular Ballads . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780691091198.

“Sir Patrick Spens.” Reliques of Ancient Poetry. London, UK: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767.

Smith, Carleton Sprague. “Broadsides and Their Music in Colonial America.” In Music in Colonial Massachusetts 1630-1820. Vol. I. Music in Public Places . Boston, MA: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980, pp. 295-332.

“The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington” (from Beale, Albert. Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland. 1954).

“Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor” (from Barker, Horton. Anglo American Ballads 2 (1939)).

“Lord Thomas and Fair Annet” (fromMurray, Jessie. Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland. 1953.)

Brown, Mary Ellen. William Motherwell’s Cultural Politics . Lexinton, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998, 2001, pp. 10-33 (skim), 78-102, appendix, and 163-170. ISBN: 9780813121888.

———. “Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song.” A History of Scottish Women’s Writing . Edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 44-57. ISBN: 9780748609161.

McCarthy, William. The Ballad Matrix. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 11-13, 25-54, 117-163, and the three-page appendix on tunes. ISBN: 9780253337184.

———. “William Motherwell as Field Collector.” Folk Music Journal 3 (1987): 293-316.

Smith, Carleton Sprague. “Broadsides and Their Music in Colonial America.” In Music in Colonial Massachusetts 1630-1820. Vol. I. Music in Public Places . Boston, MA: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980, pp. 361-367.

Abrahams, Roger, and George Foss. Anglo American Folk Song Style. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968, pp. 132-64.

Shuman, Amy. “Gender and Genre.” In Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore. Edited by Susan Tower Hollis, Linda Pershing, and M. Jane Young. Urbana, IL; Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 71-88. ISBN: 9780252063138.

Harker, Dave. Fakesong: The Manufacture of British ‘folksong’ 1700 to the Present Day . Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1985, pp. 38-77. ISBN: 9780335150663.

Symonds, Deborah A. “Ballad Singers and Ballad Collectors.” Chapter 1 in Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997, pp. 13-37. ISBN: 9780271016177.

McQuirk, Carol. “Material on Burns.” Robert Burns, Selected Poems. New York, NY: Penguin, 1994. ISBN: 9780140423822.

Brown, Mary Ellen. Burns and Tradition. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1984, pp. 1-47. ISBN: 9780252011023.

Cracium, Adriana. “Romantic Spinstrelsy: Anne Bannerman and the sexual politics of the ballad.” In Scotland and the Borders of Romnticism. Edited by Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 204-224. ISBN: 9780521832830.

“Cruel Mother” (Classic Ballads: Dancan Burke [1955], Cecilia Costello [1950], Thomas Moran [1954]).

“Edward " (Classic Ballads: Mary Ellen Connors [1952], Jeannie Robertson [1953], Thomas Moran [1954)] Angela Brasil [1954]).

Child, Francis James, ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads . Vol. I. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1965, pp. xvii-xxv, xxvii-xxxiv, and 153-193. ISBN: 9780486214092.

Rieuwerts, Sigrid. ““The Genuine Ballads of the People”: F. J. Child and the Ballad Cause.” Journal of Folklore Research 31, nos. 1-3 (1994): 1-34. (Includes two articles by Child that were published anonymously in The Nation (1867 and 1868).)

Hart, Morris. “Professor Child and the Ballad.” PMLA 21 (1906): 755-807.

Abrahams, Roger, and George Foss. Anglo American Folk Song Style. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1968, pp. 165-185. (The Musical Form of Folksong)

Bronson, Bertrand. The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959, pp. ix-xxx and 143-184. (Twa Sisters)

———. The Ballad as Song. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970, pp. 92-132. ISBN: 9780520013995.

Stewart, Polly. “Wishful Willful Wily Women: Lessons for Female Success in the Child Ballads.” In Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture . Edited by Joan Newlon Radner. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780252062674.

Rieuwerts, Sigrid. “Women as the Chief Preservers of Traditional Ballad Poetry.” Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 47, no. 1-2 (2002): 149-59.

“Four Marys,” sung by Texas Gladden ( Anglo American Ballads 2).

“Twa Sisters” from the Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland : John Stachan (1951), Dorothy Fourbister (1954), Ethel Findlater (1954).

“Twa Sisters” from Anglo-American Ballads : Harton Barker (1939).

Miles, Emma Bell. “Some Real American Music.” Chapter 8 in The Spirit of the Mountains . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1975, pp. 146-171. ISBN: 9780870491818.

Whisnant, David. All That is Native and Fine. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984, chapter 1 and 2, pp. 17-102 and 103-180. ISBN: 9780807815618.

Harker, Dave. Fakesong: The Manufacture of British ‘folksong’ 1700 to the Present Day . Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1985, pp. 143-56 and 164-97. ISBN: 9780335150663.

Judge, Roy. “Mary Neal and the Esperance Morris.” Folk Music Journal 5, no. 5 (1989): 543-91.

Lee, Katie. “Some Experiences of a Folk-Song Collector.” Journal of the Folk-Song Society I, no. 1 (1899): 7-13.

Selection from Jane Gentry by Betty Smith.

Ellis, Bill. “The Gentry-Long Tradition and Roots of Revivalism.” In Jack in Two Worlds. Edited by William McCarthy, et al. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. pp. 92-106. ISBN: 9780807844434.

Campbell, Olive Dame. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians . New York, NY; London, UK: G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1917, pp. 16, 21, 64, 65, 70, and 76.

McKim, Lucy [Garrison]. “Open Letter to John Sullivan Dwight.” Dwight’s Journal of Music (November 8, 1862): 254-55.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl.” Atlantic Monthly 11 (April, 1863): 473-481.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, pp. 151-57 and 162-3. ISBN: 9780393317084.

Dyer, Oliver. “What I have Seen about New York.” The Independent 20 (October 8, 1868). (A Lecture by Oliver Dyer.)

Epstein, Dena. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981, pp. 252-302 and 314-320. ISBN: 9780252008757.

Radano, Ronald. “Denoting Difference: The Writing of Slave Spirituals.” Critical Inquiry 22, no. 3 (Spring 1996): 506-544. (Optional)

Beman, Jennie Howard. “Milly.” Independent 33 (December 29, 1881): 28.

Moore, Ella Sheppard [Mrs. G. W. Moore]. “Needs of the Colored Woman and Girls.” American Missionary Magazine 43 (January 1889): 22-25.

Moore, Ella Sheppard. “The Jubilee Singers.” Fisk University News (1911): 41-58.

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers. The House of Bondage , 1890. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988, Frances Foster’s Introduction: xxvii-xliii, pp. 1-48 of the novel. ISBN: 9780195052633. (Reprinted with introduction by Frances Foster Smith.)

Williams, Sherley Anne. “Meditations on History.” In Midnight Birds. Edited by Mary Helen, Washington. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780385260152.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Selections from: Cunard, Nancy. The Negro: An Anthology , including ZNH on “Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals” and “The Shout”. New York, NY: Continuum, 1996. ISBN: 9780826408624.

Parrish, Lydia. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands . Hatsboro, PA: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1942. Preface by Bruce Jackson, I-X, Parrish introductory material, ix-xxiii, map on xxiv, 3-10, 108-111, 114-116, and154-55.

Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes. Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs & Stories from Afro-American Heritage . New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1972, pp. xi-xxi, 3-8, 37-40, 43-48, 123-26, and 143-45. ISBN: 9780060117832.

Jones, Bessie. For the Ancestors: Autobiographical Memories . Collected and Edited by John Stewart. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983, pp.vii-xxv, 30-84, and 135-152. ISBN: 9780252009594.

Katz, Bernard. “Songs That Will Not Die.” Negro Quarterly I (1942): 283-88.

Georgia Sea Island Songs. Southern Journey vol. 12. Rounder 1712: “Moses,” “Turkle Dove,” “Daniel and the Lion’s Den,” “Little David,” “O Day,” and “O Death.”

Video: Yonder Come Day . McGraw-Hill, 1975.

duCille, Ann. “Blue Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of the Twenties and Thirties.” In The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women’s Fiction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 66-85. ISBN: 9780195085099.

Barlow, William. Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989, 135-181. ISBN: 9780877225836.

Walker, Alice. “1955.” In You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down .

———. “In Our Mother’s Gardens.” MS Magazine .

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men . Excerpt reprinted in I Love Myself When I Am Laughing. Edited by Alice Walker. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 1979, pp. 82-122. ISBN: 9780912670669.

Davis, Angela. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism . New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1998, Introduction xi-xx, 3-41, and 66-90. ISBN: 9780679450054.

Leib, Sandra. Mother of the Blues . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982, pp. xi-xvii, 1-48, 58-63, and 164-173. ISBN: 9780870233340.

Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 226-241.

Hine, Darlene, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds. Black Women in America. An Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, 1994, entries on “blues”. ISBN: 9780253327741.

Gaar, Gillian G. She’s a Rebel. The History of Women in Rock and Roll . Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1992, pp. 1-7.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz. “Kentucky Folksong in Northern Wisconsin: Evolution of the Folksong Tradition in Four Generations of Jacobs Women.” Southern Folklore 48 (1991): 275-89.

Burt, Olive Wooley. American Murder Ballads and Their Stories . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1958, pp. ix-xiii and 3-31.

Burdine, Lucille, and William B. McCarthy. “Sister Singers.” Western Folklore 49 (October 1990): 406-12.

Flanders, Helen Hartness. Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England . Vol. I. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press [1960-1965], Preface, Introduction, pp. 15-22, Preface on Musical Annotations and Musical Style, pp. 27-37, Geographical index for vols. I and II, song texts: pp. 150-70, 208-12, 223-25, 230-238, and 280-98.

Bufwack, Mary A., and Robert K. Oermann. “The Spirit of the Mountains: Women in American Folk Music.” In Finding Her Voice. The Saga of Women in Country Music. Edited by Bufwack and Oermann. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1993, pp. 2-23. ISBN: 9780517581148.

Cook, Susan. ““Cursed Was She”: Gender and Power in American Balladry.” In Cecilia Reclaimed. Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music . Edited by Susan Cook and Judy Tsou. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780252063411.

Ritchie, Jean. The Singing Family of the Cumberlands . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1955. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Geordie Music Publishing, 1980. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. ISBN: 9780813101866.

McLucas, Anne Dhu. “The Multi-Layered Concept of “Folk Song” in American Music: The Case of Jean Ritchie’s “The Two Sisters.” In Themes and Variations: Writings on Music in Honor of Rulan Chao Pian . Edited by Bell Yung and Joseph S. C. Lam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University and the Institute of Chinese Studies University of Hon Kong, 1994, pp. 212-30. ISBN: 9780674877498.

Tannen, Holly. “Women and the Dulcimer.” Sing Out! 25, no. 2 (1976): 19-21.

Cohen, Norm and Anne. “Folk and Hillbilly Music: Further Thoughts on Their Relation.” JEMF Quarterly 13 (Summer 1997): 50-72.

Abrahams, Roger D., and Almeda Riddle. A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle’s Book of Ballads . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1970, pp. 1-49, 117-123, and 147-160. ISBN: 9780807100219.

Cochran, Robert B. ““All the Songs in the World”: The Story of Emma Dusenbury.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 44, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 3-15.

Hine, Darlene, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds. Black Women in America. An Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, 1994, entries on “gospel”. ISBN: 9780253327741.

Lomax, Alan. The Rainbow Sign . New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959, pp. 3-74 and 97-119.

McGregory, Jerrilyn. “The significance of Vera Ward Hall.” Tributaries 5: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association (1994).

Brown, Virginia Pounds. Toting the Lead Row: Ruby Pickens Tartt, Alabama Folklorist . Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1981, pp. 1-39, 123-29, 147-151, and 162-163. ISBN: 9780817300746.

Sweeney, Margaret. “Mrs, Ernest Shope: A Memorable Informant.” The Kentucky Folklore Record 11, no. 2 (1965): 17-24.

Boulez, Pierre. “The Vestal Virgin and the Fire-stealer: memory, creation, and authenticity.” Early Music (August 1990): 355-358.

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Songs collected in Texas, Alabama, Florida, S. Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia, 1939. Southern Mosaic. Fieldnotes. Section 17: Livingston, Alabama and vicinity, May 26-30. (on Ruby Pickens Tartt, Vera Hall, Dock Reed etc.) in the Library of Congress American Memory data base. (Type in “Southern Mosaic” and “John Lomax” to arrive there quickly.)

Porter, James, and Herschel Gower. Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1995, pp. xv-xlvi, 3-16, 36-78, 90-93, 96-97, 101-109, 151-2, 157-61, 182-83, 246-50, 255-67, and 282-306. ISBN: 9780870499043.

Koskoff, Ellen. “Gender, Power and Music.” In The Musical Woman: An International Perspective . Edited by Judith Lang Zaimont. Vol. 3. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 769-88. ISBN: 9780313235894.

Salzman, Rochelle. “Can Praxis Make Perfect?” In Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore. Edited by Susan Hollis, Linda Pershing, and M. Jane Young. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780252063138.

Kodish, Debora. “Absent Gender, Silent Encounter.” JAF 100, no. 398: 573-78.

Goldstein, Kenneth. “The Impact of Recording Technology on the British Folksong Revival.” In Folk Music and Modern Sound . Edited by William Ferris and Mary L. Hart. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 1982. ISBN: 9780878051571.

Henderson, Hamish. “Jeannie Robertson as Storyteller.” Tocher 6 (1972): 169-78.

Monro, Ailie. “Lizzie Higgins, and the Oral Transmission of 10 Child Ballads.” Scottish Studies 14, no. 2 (1970): 155-188.

Henderson, Hamish, and Francis Collinson. “New Child Ballads from Oral Tradition.” Scottish Studies 9 (1965): 1-33.

Gower, Herschel, and James Porter. “Jeannie Robertson: The Child Ballads.” Scottish Studies 14, no. 2 (1970): 35-58.

Bufwack, Mary, and Robert Oermann. “Hungry Disgusted Blues: Women in Protest.” In Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1993, pp. 108-23. ISBN: 9780517581148.

Romalis, Shelly. “Music, Politics and Women’s Resistance.” In Pistol Packin’ Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 1-53 and 127-192. ISBN: 9780252067280.

For Further Exploration

Miles, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fanny Lou Hamer. New York, NY: Dutton, 1993, pp. 6-29, 36-64, and 78-104. ISBN: 9780525935018.

King, Mary. Freedom Song. A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1988, pp. 92-98. ISBN: 9780688082512.

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Right Movement through its Songs. Edited and compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out, 1990, pp. 175-237. ISBN: 9780865711808.

Reagon, Bernice Johnson. “Freedom Songs: My African American Singing and Fighting Mothers.” In If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me. The African American Sacred Song Tradition . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, pp. 100-141. ISBN: 9780803289833.

Selections from: “Songs of American Women.” Sing Out! 25, no. 2 (1976).

Reagon, Bernice Johnson. “Women’s Voices. Thoughts on Women’s Music in America,” and “My Name is Sarah Ogan Gunning.” In If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me. The African American Sacred Song Tradition . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, pp. 2-3 and 15-17. ISBN: 9780803289833.

Rahn, Millie. “The Folk Revival. Beyond Child’s Canon and Sharp’s Song Catching.” In American Popular Music. New Approaches to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Rubin, Rachel and Jeffrey Melnick. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001: 193-210. ISBN: 9781558492684.

Echols, Alice. Scars of Sweet Paradise. The Life and Times of Janis Joplin . New York, NY: Henry Holt Company, 2000, pp. 38-59, 234-240, and 305-311. ISBN: 9780805053944.

Willis, Ellen. “Don’t Turn Your Back on Love.” In CD box set, Janis. Sony, 1993, pp. 19-22. Ann Powers, “Janis Without Tears,” in Ellen Willis, “Don’t Turn Your Back on Love,” pp. 31-43.

Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock ’n’ Roll . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 249-250 and 269-275. ISBN: 9780674802728.

Montgomery, Susan. “The Folk Furor.” Mademoiselle, December 1960, 98-99 and 118.

Staff anon. “The Folk-Girls.” Time , June 1, 1962, 39-40.

“Sibyl with Guitar.” Time , November 23, 1962.

Baez, Joan. The Joan Baez Songbook . New York, NY: Crown, 1988. ISBN: 9780517034811. Introductory material, and Index of Titles. Xeroxes of “Virgin Mary” and “Barbara Allen,” and “The Four Marys” and “House Carpenter,” and “The Cherry Tree Carol.”

Stekkert, Ellen. “Cents and Nonsense in the Urban Folksong Movement, 1930-1960.” In Transforming Tradition. Folk Music Revivals Examined. Edited by Neil Rosenberg. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 84-106. ISBN: 9780252019821.

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Von Schmidt, Eric, and Jim Rooney. Baby Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, Forward, pp. 24-215, 37-47, 52-58, 133-141, and 222-27. ISBN: 9780870239250.

Excerpts from The Essential Janis . “Ball and Chain,” “O Lord Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedez Benz?” and “Me and Bobby McGee.”