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Film, Video I Done What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest

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Title

  • I Done What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest

Summary

  • The dangers and difficulties of certain challenging occupations are sometimes expressed in the tradition of composing and reciting poems, often in the traditional ballad form of rhymed couplets. This tradition, best-known in the cowboy poetry of the American West, also occurs among other occupational groups and is still found among workers in the Pacific Northwest such as loggers, commercial fishers, and miners. Jens Lund introduces the fisher and logger poetry genres and discusses their content, style and context with examples.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-09-12.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Jens Lund.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-09-12.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689203

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. I Done What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-12, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689203/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2013) I Done What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689203/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. I Done What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-12, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689203/>.