Stagger Lee: How violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard

Towards Automated Processing of Folk Song Recordings

Folk music is closely related to the musical culture of a specific nation or region. Even though folk songs have been passed down mainly by oral tradition, most musicologists study the relation between folk songs on the basis of symbolic music descriptions, which are obtained by transcribing recorded tunes into a score-like representation. Due to the complexity of audio recordings, once having ...

Automated Segmentation of Folk Song Field Recordings

In this paper, we introduce an automated procedure for segmenting a given folk song field recording into its constituent stanzas. One challenge arises from the fact that these recordings are performed by elderly non-professional singers under poor recording conditions such that the constituent stanzas may reveal significant temporal and spectral deviations. Unlike a previously described segment...

American folk medicine

The Revolutionary period did (after some hesitation by those who dreamed of a society without hospitals) bring about the conversion of the main houses of Christian care for the sick poor in the large urban centres (Hotels-Dieu, Charite's, and Hopitaux Ge'neraux) to medical institutions concerned with the study and treatment of disease. The process of medicalization of Paris hospitals has been w...

Violent death, violent states, and American youth.

DRING the past two decades, more and more young Americans have been dying violent deaths. Although rates for every age group have been rapidly declining since the turn of the century, the death rates for those aged 15-24 have, since 1960, been on the rise. In these years the rate of youths involved in motor vehicle and other accidental deaths has been climbing while suicide and homicide rates h...

American folk medicine. A symposium