Document Type
Presentation
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Fife Honor Lecture
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Publication Date
10-5-2016
Abstract
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 occupational groups and seems to have survived to a greater extent in the Pacific Northwest.
Recommended Citation
Lund, Jens, "“I Done What I Could”: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest" (2016). Fife Honor Lecture. Paper 3.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fife_honor/3
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