The Midlands Network of Popular Culture
Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector: A Talk by Prof. Elizabeth DiSavino
The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University -- and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so -- Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of traditional Kentucky ballads, which should have been her crowning scholarly achievement, never saw print. Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history.
A recording of 'Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector' a talk by Prof. Elizabeth DiSavino, which was part of the Midlands Network of Popular Culture's academic events for 20/21. The lecture happened on 18/03/2020.
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