Those Terrible Songs
Laura E. Richards’s Ditties and the Education of Boys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6187767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ralph J Poole (0000-0001-6796-7468, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/12wav |
| OpenAlex | W4405290131 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Songs—singing and composing—were a staple in Laura Richards’s life. Her mother taught her songs, and she taught them to her own children, who found them “terrible” (Stepping Westward 245) at times, however. I want to pursue the educational and entertaining ideal of teaching songs to children, particularly boys, and speculate about Richards’s pedagogical intentions to enhance gendered notions of behavior and identity through her compositions. My readerly quest is to show that her songs, especially those in her collection The Hottentott and Other Ditties (1939), offer non-hegemonic models and gender-fluid potential for envisioning boyhood
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideal (ethics · Identity (music · Literature · Political science · Singing · Sociology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Philosophy
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The State of American Boyhood
Integrating Children's Literature and Song into the Social Studies
A "Real Boy" and not a Sissy
The myth of sameness among Latino men and their machismo
Fireside Chastity
Slurs and stereotypes for Italian Americans
The Magic of the Boy Scout Campfire
Manliness and Civilization
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |