Jennifer C. Post This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. UPNE - Music in Rural New England Family and Community Life, 1870-1940: Jennifer C. Post

   www.upne.com/1-58465-415-5.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/4/2008   Last Visited: 6/12/2008

   Jennifer C. Post
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   "Jennifer Post's book is a quite successful attempt to put songs and instrumental music into the context of everyday life in rural communities in northern New England.
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   Jennifer Post lets the voices of ordinary people,the participants,tell us about their music and cultural history.Their stories are infused with issues of concern to ethnomusicologists, historians, and social scientists about landscape and community, gendered expression, imagined traditions, and historical representation.
   
   The author conveys that historical traditions are not always what they seem.Post offers a startling new interpretation of vernacular music of the region: In contrast to many traditional scholars who have viewed ballads and folk music, particularly in Appalachia, as somehow a "purer" brand of lost musical traditions, Post finds that across Northern New England everyday people equally enjoyed and expressed themselves through an amalgam of folk ballads, dance music, and popular musical favorites.At the heart of this study is the recognition that the musical lives of individuals, their families, and their communities were constantly being negotiated in relation to social status, gender relations, local geography, and economic needs.
   
   "A rich and thought-provoking volume.",Vermont History
   
   "A milestone in the literature on American's far northeastern corner.Addressing the need for a historical overview of the region's vernacular music and dance traditions, Post deftly applies ethnographic rigor to the telling of a story whose details offer insightful commentary on a familiar premise: continuity and change.",Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association
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   JENNIFER C. POST, Assistant Professor of Music at Middlebury College, is Faculty Curator of the Ethnomusicology Archives and of the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection of Folk Music.

2. 2. ARC - Directory

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   Published on: 11/3/2002   Last Visited: 1/7/2006

   Jennifer Post Music Library Middlebury College

3. 3. Society for Ethnomusicology: Forty-fifth Annual Meeting

   www.ethnomusicology.org/progra - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/5/2001   Last Visited: 2/25/2004

   Chair: Jennifer Post (Middlebury College)
   
   8:30 Why Pack the Camera? Microethnographic Analysis of Videotape in the Practice of Ethnomusicology