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dc.contributor.authorBishop, Julia C.eng
dc.contributor.authorAtkinson, Davideng
dc.contributor.authorWalser, Robert Youngeng
dc.date.issued2013-10eng
dc.descriptionJames Madison Carpenter (1888-1983) was until recently a relatively unknown figure in the history of Anglo-American folksong and British folk play scholarship (Jabbour 1998; Bishop 1998). Born and bred in Mississippi, he was university-educated and worked as a minister and teacher prior to entering Harvard in 1920 to do a Ph.D. in English. Under the supervision of George Lyman Kittredge, he wrote a thesis on "Forecastle Songs and Chanties," based on fieldwork with retired seamen in the United States and in ports that he visited in the summer of 1928 on a Dexter scholarship around England, Scotland, and Ireland. After gaining his doctorate in 1929, and encouraged by Kittredge, Carpenter returned to Britain in order to continue fieldwork. Armed with a portable typewriter and a Dictaphone cylinder machine, he bought a car and struck off northwards up the east coast (Figure 2).1eng
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dc.format.extent10 pageseng
dc.identifier.citationOral Tradition, 28/2 (2013): 307-316.eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/65311
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.titleThe James Madison Carpenter collection of traditional song and dramaeng


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