Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs by Henry Adam Svec

Author:Henry Adam Svec [Svec, Henry Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 2021-06-07T22:20:50+00:00

127 This song is not about the PepsiCo-produced soda pop Mountain Dew®. “Mountain dew” is an Irish euphemism for moonshine, which, however, has not stopped PepsiCo from exploiting “The Rare Old Mountain Dew” in their marketing campaigns. See Michelle Dean, “Here Comes the Hillbilly, Again: What Honey Boo Boo Really Says About American Culture,” Slate (August 24, 2012): n.p.

128 Ian McKay, The Quest of the Folk (Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994).

129 On the cultural contradictions of folk song collection, see Robert Cantwell, When We Were Good: The Folk Revival (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993); Benjamin Filene, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Marybeth Hamilton, In Search of the Blues: Black Voices, White Visions (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1998); LeRoi Jones, Blues People: Negro Music in White America (New York, NY: W. Morrow, 1963); Karl Hagstrom Miller, Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010).

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