Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hilliard, Emily

Titel

“Written and Composed by Nora E. Carpenter”: Song Lyric Scrapbooks, Home Recordings, and Self-Documentation

Ist Teil von

• Southern cultures, 2016-03, Vol.22 (1), p.66-78

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]I was doing my due diligence as a researcher, but I wondered if in devoting so much attention to linking Carpenter to her male counterparts and Lomax's fieldwork, I was obscuring the real lesson that Carpenter's body of work had to teach.\n5 As Carpenter's most musically productive period occurred from the late 1930s through the mid 1960s, she is situated at a moment in time in traditional Appalachian music when phonograph records and songs learned from the radio were being incorporated as part of the tradition. Carpenter's documented materials, coupled with additional information from family and community members and what little I could glean from other outside sources, communicates valuable information about her self-construction, fluid notions of authorship in traditional music, politics of memory and accrediting that run counter to prevailing notions, and our understanding of the musical influences on Eastern Kentucky and broader Appalachia in the post-recording "boom" of the 1920s when recorded music and radio broadcasts achieved wider distribution in the region.