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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604732547
• ISBN13: 9781604732542
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"