***Reminder – MMHN online seminar on Wednesday 14th June***
Dear colleagues,
The Music, Medicine and History Network’s next Wednesday Seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday 14th June from 3-4pm (UK time) – please do join us and circulate this to any other colleagues who may be interested.
This month, Dr Simon Buck (University of Edinburgh) will be giving a paper on ‘The Old Folks at Home: Old Age, Health, & Folk Song Collecting in the US South, 1890-1930’
Abstract: In the minds of the early-twentieth century folklorists who collected, studied, and promoted vernacular or ‘folk’ music, the southern United States was a place seemingly brimming with ‘old folks’— ballad-singin’ grandmas and banjo-playin’ grandpas with a deep knowledge of traditional song and musical styles. This paper explores how age and health were important, if rarely critically considered, dimensions to folk song collecting in the US South, and important corollaries to the overlapping power dynamics of race, gender, and class that characterized the wider folkloric project. This paper outlines how both folklorists and the impoverished white and Black ‘folk elders’ they encountered both negotiated the factors of aging and health, and it situates their responses within the worlds of aging and medicine in the early-twentieth century South.
Zoom link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99575597008?pwd=UVQ4dkFoU1ZNamhiOGt4dENMcHZqdz09
For more information about our network, visit our website here: https://musicmedicinehistory.org/
With best wishes,
Hannah Scott
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Dr Hannah Scott
NUAcT Fellow in French Cultural History
Newcastle University
Chair of the Music, Medicine and History Network @MusicMedHistory
Please note my working days are Tuesday-Friday.
Latest publications:
-- Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (London and New York: Routledge, 2022) https://www.routledge.com/Singing-the-English-Britain-in-the-French-Musical-Low-Brow-18701904/Scott/p/book/9780367416126
-- ‘The Singing Linguist: Popular Songs on Fin-de-siècle Language Learning’, Contemporary French Civilization, 46:4 (2021), 373–93
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