Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen

Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen Mason-Dixon Lines poetry by elizabeth hadaway He mounted to the bar with a pistol in his hand and he sent Judge Massie to the Promised Land: the only mountain ballad my mother ever sang the years that she was raising me on Pop Rocks and Tang, and Grandmother thought secular music miles beneath her notice, so my mind is not one Stith Thompson motif after another, not a green wood thick with noble felons, no Gypsy Davies to seduce, no Barbara Allens, just local Sidna, late in the murder song tradition, coming at you straight out of my mother's kitchen. Ed. note: From Fire Baton, published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2006, and reprinted here with the author's permission. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen

Southern Cultures , Volume 13 (3) – Sep 17, 2007

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/living-with-ballads-sidna-allen-gffZIqvNal

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Center for the Study of the American South. All rights reserved.
ISSN
1534-1488
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Mason-Dixon Lines poetry by elizabeth hadaway He mounted to the bar with a pistol in his hand and he sent Judge Massie to the Promised Land: the only mountain ballad my mother ever sang the years that she was raising me on Pop Rocks and Tang, and Grandmother thought secular music miles beneath her notice, so my mind is not one Stith Thompson motif after another, not a green wood thick with noble felons, no Gypsy Davies to seduce, no Barbara Allens, just local Sidna, late in the murder song tradition, coming at you straight out of my mother's kitchen. Ed. note: From Fire Baton, published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2006, and reprinted here with the author's permission.

Journal

Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Sep 17, 2007

There are no references for this article.