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Songs his mother taught him: Émile Legrand’s collection of lacemakers’ ballads

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Émile Legrand was the leading scholar of modern Greek in late nineteenth-century France; he also made a collection of songs sung by his mother and her neighbours, all lacemakers, in the village of Fontenay-le-Marmion in Normandy. Lacemakers in many parts of Europe had a distinctive work culture characterized by ballad singing, but this is the only evidence of lacemakers’ repertoire from Normandy. I speculate that Legrand’s experiences growing up within this culture influenced his career as the progenitor of Akritic Studies.
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Oxford college:
Hertford College
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Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
Host title:
Networks, Narratives and Nations: Transnational Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond
Chapter number:
13
Place of publication:
Amsterdam
Publication date:
2022-06-24
Edition:
1st
ISBN:
9789463720755


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1266538
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2022-08-03

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