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Folk Music 2017

Schedule

  1. Introduction (12.5 Tuesday)
    1. Two Irish songs about fooling around
      1. "You Rambling Boys of Pleasure"
        1. Andy Irvine YouTube
        2. broadsides
      2. "Blackwater Side"
        1. Anne Briggs YouTube audio
        2. Sandy Denny YouTube audio
        3. Briggs / Jansch liveYouTube
        4. Wikipedia
  2. Yes, you can run away with a gypsy boy and be happy (12.8 Friday)
    1. "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Wikipedia), "Gypsy Davy" etc (Mainly Norfolk)
      "Johny Faa, The Gypsie Laddie," Tea-Table Miscellany (1740) [IA] (earliest printed)
      1. Carter Family (YouTube) ["Black Jack David"]
      2. Fotheringay / Sandy Denny (YouTube live) ["Gypsy Davey"]
      3. Fay Hield (YouTube live) ["Blackjack Davey"]
      4. The White Stripes (YouTube), (Live1) (Live2) ["Black Jack Davey"]
    2. Wikipedia:
      1. American folk music; Carter Family
      2. American folk music revival;
      3. British folk revival;
      4. British folk rock; Sandy Denny; Fotheringay
      5. The White Stripes; Fay Hield
      6. Romani people
  3. But don't try it at home (12.12 Tuesday)
    1. "Matty Groves" / "Little Musgrave"
      1. Wikipedia
      2. Nic Jones (YouTube audio), "Little Musgrave"
      3. Fairport Convention (YouTube audio) "Matty Groves" [with Denny, 1969]
      4. Fairport Convention (YouTube live 2012) "Matty Groves"
      5. Moriarty (YouTube) "Matty Groves"
  4. "Turtle Dove" vs. "Tiny Sparrow" (12.15 Friday)
    1. "The Turtle Dove" / "Ten Thousand Miles" (Norfolk) / "Fare Thee Well" (Wiki) /"The True Lover's Farewell" (Bodleian)
      1. Custer LaRue, "True Lover's Farewell"
      2. Ralph Vaughan Williams (Wiki / Wiki-J)
        1. Kristin School, Auckland (YouTube live) "The Turtle Dove"
      3. Mary Chapin Carpenter (YouTube audio) "10,000 Miles"
    2. "Tiny Sparrow" / "Fair and Tender Ladies" (Norfolk / Fresno), / "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies" (Wiki)
      1. Anita Carter (YouTube audio 1963); Carter Family (YouTube live 1971) "Fair and Tender Ladies"
      2. Peter Paul and Mary (YouTube audio) "Tiny Sparrow"
      3. Emiko Shiratori (YouTube audio) "Tiny Sparrow"
      4. Dolly Parton (YouTube audio), (YouTube live 2010) "Little Sparrow"
  5. True love or no (12.19 Tuesday)
    1. "Sovay" (Wiki) (Norfolk), "Sylvia's Request and William's Denial," (Bodleian)
      1. Martin Carthy (YouTube live 1989)
      2. Pentangle (YouTube audio 1968)
    2. "Jack Monroe" (Wiki), (Fresno), "Jack-a-roe"
      1. Joan Baez (YouTube audio) "Jackaroe"
      2. The Grateful Dead, (YouTube live 1980), (YouTube live 1989) "Jack-a-roe"
  6. "Greensleeves" (12.22 Friday)
    2. "What Child Is This"
      1. 御使いうたいて Wikipedia
      2. Nara Kyokai YouTube
      3. Wikipedia
      4. Charlotte Church YouTube
      5. Sarah McLachlan YouTube
      6. Karaoke
    3. "Greensleeves"
      1. グリーンスリーブス Wikipedia
      2. Miyakonojō YouTube
      3. Greensleeves Wikipedia
      4. King's Singers
      5. New World Renaissance Band
      6. Stefan Temmingh & Dorothee Mields
      7. Jordi Savall instrumental
      8. Scorpions YouTube audio
      9. Karaoke
      10. John Coltrane audio
  7. Man of Constant Sorrow vs. Wayfaring Stranger (1.16 Tuesday)
    1. "Man of Constant Sorrow" [wiki]
      1. Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother Where Art Thou [Y]
      2. Alison Krauss and Union Station [YV]
      3. Bob Dylan [Y]
      4. Emry Arthur 1928 [Y]
    2. "Wayfaring Stranger" [wiki]
      1. Johnny Cash [Y]
      2. Rhiannon Giddens [YV]
      3. Jack White from the film Cold Mountain [Y]
      4. Mormon Tabernacle Choir [YV]
      5. JD Sumner [YV]
  8. Happy fishing (1.19 Friday)
    1. "Dance to Your Daddy" / "When the Boat Comes In"
      1. Nancy Kerr [Y] [YLive]
      2. Sweeney's Men
    2. "Humpback Whale" ["Ballina Whalers"]
      1. Nic Jones [Y]
      2. Anais Mitchell [YLive]
  9. Lovers' ghosts (1.23 Tuesday)
    1. "She Moved Through the Fair" [Wiki]
      1. Bert Jansch [Y]; live 1995 [YV]
      2. Anne Briggs [Y]
      3. Sinead O'Connor [YV]
      4. Cara Dillon and Solas [YV]
    2. "The Unquiet Grave" [Wiki] [Norfolk]
      1. Kate Rusby 2001 [Y] [YV]
      2. Joan Baez 1965 [YV]
    3. "The Lover's Ghost" / "The Grey Cock" [Norfolk] [Fresno]
      1. Eliza Carthy [audio]
      2. Fay Hield [YV]
  10. "Scarborough Fair" (1.26 Friday)
    1. [Wiki][スカボロフェア][Norfolk][Fair Wiki]
    2. Celtic Woman, with Japanese translation [Y]
      1. Simon and Garfunkel 1966 [Y] 1981 [YV]
      1. Martin Carthy 2012 [YV]
    3. "The Elfin Knight"
      1. Child Ballads, vol. 1, song #2
      2. Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger [Y]
        1. lyrics with translation
          1. page about plaid in traditional Scottish women's dress
          2. タータン (wiki-J)
        2. Elf Wikipedia / エルフ
  11. "Tam Lin" (1.30 Tuesday)
    1. [wiki][Norfolk] Carterhaugh (Wiki) / Faery Folklorist
    2. Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer [Folk Alley][Crypt]
    3. Fairport Convention [Y]
    4. Medieval Baebes [Y]
    5. Ewan MacColl [Y]
  12. "Alison Gross" (2.2 Friday)
  13. "The Water is Wide" (2.6 Tuesday)
    1. History of a Folk Song
    2. "The Water is Wide" / 広い河の岸辺
      1. Wikipedia English / Japanese
      2. Kumiko クミコ「広い河の岸辺 ～The Water Is Wide～」[YV1] [YV2] 「マッサン」朝ドラのエリーが歌う [2]/ Aya Uchida [karaoke]
      3. YouTube: James Taylor / Sheryl Crow / Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan / Among the Oak and Ash / Karla Bonoff
      4. YouTube audio: Joan Baez / Karla Bonoff / Cowboy Junkies / Bob Dylan / 2 / Emiko Shiratori
    3. "Waly Waly"
      1. June Tabor YouTube audio
      2. Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads ("Jamie Douglas")
    4. related songs
      1. Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Must I Go Bound" YouTube audio
  14. The end is murder (2.9 Friday)
    1. "Pretty Polly"
      1. "Pretty Polly" Wikipedia
        1. Kristin Hersh YouTube audio
        2. Stanley Brothers YouTube audio / Ralph Stanley / video with Patty Loveless / \o/
        3. 1927 Dock Boggs [Y] / documentary
        4. 1927 B.F. Shelton [Y]
      2. "Polly's Love," "Love and Murder," "Cruel Ship's Carpenter," etc.
        1. Bodleian Library broadsides
      3. "The Gosport Tragedy"
        1. UCSB broadsides archive
    2. "Tom Dooley" [Wiki]
      1. Grayson and Whitter [Y]
      2. Kingston Trio [Y] [YV]
      3. Grateful Dead [Y]
  15. There will be no class on 2.13 Tuesday.
  16. Reports are due 2.14. Please submit them at room 711.

Schedule note:

 

Description (from syllabus)

British and American popular music are still strongly connected to traditional folk music (in Japanese: 民謡 or フォークソング). Traditional folk songs created hundreds of years ago remain popular. Folk music styles are usually simple, involving a single instrument such as an acoustic guitar or perhaps no instrument at all. But song lyrics must be interesting to succeed and survive. 

In this class we'll focus on traditional folk songs that have survived the test of time and continue to be performed today, and look at a few examples of contemporary folk music.

We'll spend about three-quarters of the course on traditional folk songs, and a quarter on contemporary folk, usually studying one or two or sometimes three songs each class. We'll listen to different versions performed by contemporary musicians. Songs will generally be available on YouTube through a course web page. Students are expected to read the song lyrics and listen to or watch songs online if available. In most cases the required time will be less than an hour a week.

Evaluation

in-class writing and quizzes (30%) class participation (30%), final report (40%)

Students are expected to learn vocabulary and pronunciation, and participate in class discussion