Although literary scholars must take heed of drawing simplistic parallels between authors’ lives and their fictional works, writers rely on experiences from real life as the context and inspiration for their works. Scholars in age studies have noted that authors sometimes turn to the subject of old age when they grow old themselves, or that they a…[Read more]

The history of ethnomusicology should include the contributions of those who studied their own local traditions. One of the foremost researchers of American fiddle music was Samuel P. Bayard, whose lifelong work was the collection of folk music and folk songs from Southwestern Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia. When Bayard began collecting…[Read more]

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