| WEeK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overview: Women as Carriers, Creators, Conservers and Collectors of Tradition | |
| 2 | The First Folk Revival: 1723/1765 Through the Early Nineteenth Century: Transatlantic Connections | Week 1 reading response questions due |
| 3 | The First Folk Revival Part II: The Case Study of Motherwell and Agnes Lyle, and Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3) | Week 2 reading response questions due |
| 4 | The "Classic" Collections of Francis James Child | Week 3 reading response questions due |
| 5 | The Second Anglo-American Folk Revival: Cecil Sharp and The Founding of the English Country Dance and Folk Song Society; Mary Neal; Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell in Appalachia; Emma Bell Miles | Week 4 reading response questions due |
| 6 | African-American Women's Folk Traditions: The Legacy from the Nineteenth Century. Spirituals on the Georgia Sea Islands as a Case Study of Process and Preservation | Week 5 reading response questions due |
| 7 | Early and Down Home Blues: Three Pioneers: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton | Week 6 reading response questions due |
| 8 | Mountain Women: Almeda Riddle, Jean Ritchie, Emma Dusenbury (New England: Helen Harkness Flanders) | Week 7 reading response questions due |
| 9 | Alan Lomax "Portraits" in the United States: Vera Hall, Texas Gladden | Week 8 reading response questions due |
| 10 | Alan Lomax Portraits in Ireland and Scotland: Jeannie Robertson and Margaret Barry | Week 9 reading response questions due |
| 11 | The Music of Political Communities: Miners' Union Movement and the Movement for Civil Rights: Aunt Molly Jackson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bernice Reagon | Week 10 reading response questions due |
| 12 | The Third Folk Revival: Washington Square; Later Celebrity Performers: Joan Baez and Janis Joplin | Week 11 reading response questions due Final research paper due |