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Rethinking Ballad Scholarship - A symposium with Richard Firth Green & friends

Professor Richard Firth Green
February 28, 2014
All Day
Ohio Union Barbie Tootle Room

This event will give historical depth and context to folk music that continues to weave itself in and out of popular contexts, even in the present day.  Students interested in folk music - either academically or personally - will have the chance to engage in conversation with one of the foremost scholars on ballads, Richard Firth Green.

In this symposium, Richard Firth Green, students, and guests take the pulse of ballad scholarship. They consider changes in the history of Anglophone balladry itself as old songs are revived, remediated, and repurposed for new audiences, giving us new perspectives on texts and tunes. Coming from folklore, literary studies, medieval studies, and ethnomusicology, they also explore disciplinary and generational shifts of interest and avenues of inquiry into a much-studied but still elusive genre.