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• W1570897900 abstract "Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat. Dead Horse on the Tulameen: Settlers Verse From BC's Similkameen Valley. (Princeton: 2011, Canadian Folk Workshop. Pp. 293. ISBN: 978-0-9877255-0-9) Bartlett and Ruebsaat present a fairly straightforward project familiar to several studies both popular and scholarly: using a popular local tradition to describe and, at times, interpret the and geographic context of a place. In this study, the authors use the popular verse tradition to explore the British Columbian rural communities in the Similkameen Valley. From 1890 to 1960, seven communities emerged in this historically isolated southern valley that is now reached by the Crow's Nest Highway and centred around the small city of Princeton. The work attempts to straddle the popular-academic divide and generally manages to do so, but only after a disastrous preface and the first half of an introductory chapter. The authors initially fail to properly delineate their topic, while also offering a clumsy interpretation of folk culture which manages to perpetuate as technological determinism, as well as the archaic disappearing folklore model. Neither of these sections are necessary. The authors are accomplished folksong collectors and interpreters, and even a cursory search of the literature would have revealed the work of Pauline Greenhill on folk poetry. In ways the authors of Dead Horse don't, Greenhill (1989) in True Poetry efficiently explains the interrelationship between folksong, local song, and local poetry. Failure by Bartlett and Ruebsaat to establish a clear link between the genres, as well as their relevance in revealing the culture of the community, is initially confusing and limits the readers' trust in the competency of the authors. Likewise, the rather moribund view of folk and popular culture suggests the work may be less useful to a scholarly audience. Fortunately, after these initial missteps, the work finds its feet. The first indication of the study coming together is the subtle and nuanced discussion of using local newspapers as source material. Bartlett and Ruebsaat rely heavily on the archived Princeton Star, which they argue expresses the public history of colonial British culture of the valley. Using census records along with a general catalogue of the paper's content, they argue that, because of their non-British cultural heritage and everyday practices, the lived experience of over half the town is excluded from the record. Throughout the work, the authors treat source material carefully and, especially around labour issues, demonstrate the biases represented in the editorial policy of racist colonialism's promotion of a normative British template of citizenry. What is preserved in the newspapers, however incomplete as a total record, is an excellent example of the way folk poetry is a celebration of the local, concrete, and personal. Father Pat (37-38), is a good example of a memorial verse that embeds local cultural priorities with stanzas like: He never peeked at keyholes Nor fought the cigarette; He never frowned on lager beer Nor games of chance--and yet ... The seventeen chapters are arranged around a significant time period or theme. …" @default.
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