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Barbara Lattimer Krader

Barbara Anne Lattimer Krader (January 15, 1922 – March 29, 2007) was an American ethnomusicologist, translator, librarian, and educator. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), serving her term from 1972 to 1973.

Barbara Lattimer Krader
A white woman with dark hair, wearing a polka-dot shirt
Barbara Lattimer Krader, from a 1955 newspaper
Born
Barbara Anne Lattimer

January 15, 1922
Columbus, Ohio
DiedMarch 29, 2007
Marion, Oregon
Occupation(s)Ethnomusicologist, translator, librarian, educator
SpouseLawrence Krader (m. 1953)

Early life and education

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Lattimer was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Gardner Lattimer and Esther Reese Williams Lattimer. Her father worked in a metal parts factory and was coordinator at a hospital.[1] She graduated from Vassar College in 1942, and was active in the school's "Composers Club" as a student.[2]

Lattimer earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1948, and studied at Prague University from 1948 to 1949.[3] She earned a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature at Radcliffe College in 1955,[4] under Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, with a dissertation titled "Serbian peasant wedding ritual songs: A formal, semantic and functional analysis."[5][6]

Career

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During her doctoral work, she traveled in Yugoslavia on a fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW),[7][8][9] teaching English classes for the State Department[4] and collecting folksongs.[10][11] She worked in the music department of the Pan-American Union in the late 1950s.[12][13]

From 1959 to 1963, Lattimer was a reference librarian in the Slavonic division of the Library of Congress. She taught at Ohio State University from 1963 to 1964. She was based in London as executive secretary of the International Folk Music Council from 1965 to 1966. In 1970, she taught a course on folk music at Conrad Grebel College in Ontario.[14] From 1972 to 1973, she was the first woman to be elected president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.[5][15]

In 1985, she was the first woman to give the Charles Seeger Memorial Lecture to the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, when she gave a speech titled "Slavic Folk Music: Forms of Singing and Self-Identity.”[16] Under the difficult conditions of the Cold War, she was recognized for her efforts to maintain contacts between music scholars on both sides of the Iron Curtain.[17]

Publications

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  • "Slavica: Czechoslovakia and Poland" (1962, with Janina W. Hoskins)[18]
  • "Soviet Research on Russian Music" (1963)
  • "The Glagolitic Missal of 1483" (1963)[19]
  • "Viktor Mikhailovich Beliaev" (1968)
  • "Bulgarian Folk Music Research" (1969)[20]
  • "The Russian Protiazhnaia 'Prolonged' Folk Song" (1969, with Viktor M. Beliaev)[21]
  • "Folk Music in Soviet Russia: Some Recent Publications" (1970)[22]
  • "Vasil Stoin, Bulgarian Folk Song Collector" (1980)[23]
  • "Ethnomusicology" (1980, entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
  • "Slavic Folk Music: Forms of Singing and Self-Identity" (1987)[24]
  • "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology" (1990)[25]

Personal life

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Lattimer married anthropologist Lawrence Krader in 1953.[26] She died in 2007, in Marion, Oregon, at the age of 85.

References

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  1. ^ "Obituary for Gardner Lattimer". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1968-11-20. p. 29. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Composer's Club To Give First Student Concert In Thekla". Vassar Miscellany News. February 8, 1941. p. 3. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  3. ^ "Notes and News". Ethnomusicology. 5 (1): 68–76. 1961. ISSN 0014-1836. JSTOR 924318.
  4. ^ a b Morris, Betsy (1955-04-19). "Yugoslavians Flatter Teacher With Imitation of Ohio Accent". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Rice, Timothy, and Mark Slobin. "Barbara Krader (1922-2007) Memorial Citation" The Society for Ethnomusicology.
  6. ^ Krader, Barbara Lattimer. "Serbian Peasant Wedding Ritual Songs: A Formal, Semantic and Functional Analysis." PhD diss., Radcliffe College, 1955.
  7. ^ "AAUW 'Fellow' to Address Knox Board". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 1955-04-12. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Ketchin, Ansley (1955-04-07). "AAUW Fellow Says Yugoslavs' Greatest Desire is Freedom". The Charlotte Observer. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Mrs. Barbara L. Krader". The Charlotte News. 1955-04-07. p. 22. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "AAUW to Hear Mrs. Barbara Krader". Lexington Herald-Leader. 1955-04-17. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Mrs. Krader to be Honored by AAUW". Nashville Banner. 1955-04-15. p. 27. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Club Calendar". Evening Star. 1959-04-22. p. 57. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Club to Hold Latin Program". Evening Star. 1959-04-22. p. 55. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "To Offer New Courses". Mennonite Weekly Review. 1970-11-19. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-03-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Frisbie, Charlotte J. (1991). "Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology". In Bettl, Bruno; Bohlman, Philip V. (eds.). Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology. University of Chicago Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780226574097.
  16. ^ "1985 Lecture: Barbara Krader" The Society for Ethnomusicology.
  17. ^ Nettl, Bruno (2010-10-01). Nettl's Elephant. University of Illinois Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-252-09023-3.
  18. ^ Krader, Barbara; Hoskins, Janina W. (1962). "Slavica: Czechoslovakia and Poland". Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. 19 (4): 233–247. ISSN 0090-0095. JSTOR 29781024.
  19. ^ Krader, Barbara (1963). "The Glagolitic Missal of 1483". Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. 20 (2): 93–98. ISSN 0090-0095. JSTOR 29781036.
  20. ^ Krader, Barbara (1969). "Bulgarian Folk Music Research". Ethnomusicology. 13 (2): 248–266. doi:10.2307/850148. ISSN 0014-1836. JSTOR 850148.
  21. ^ Beliaev, Viktor M. (January 1969). "The Russian Protiazhnaia "Prolonged" Folk Song". Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council. 1: 165–175. doi:10.2307/767638. ISSN 0316-6082.
  22. ^ Krader, Barbara (1970). "Folk Music in Soviet Russia: Some Recent Publications". Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council. 2: 148–154. doi:10.2307/767433. ISSN 0316-6082. JSTOR 767433.
  23. ^ Krader, Barbara (1980). "Vasil Stoin, Bulgarian Folk Song Collector". Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council. 12: 27–42. doi:10.2307/767652. ISSN 0316-6082. JSTOR 767652.
  24. ^ Krader, Barbara (1987). "Slavic Folk Music: Forms of Singing and Self-Identity". Ethnomusicology. 31 (1): 9–17. doi:10.2307/852288. ISSN 0014-1836. JSTOR 852288.
  25. ^ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 1–16. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 767926. S2CID 193116112.
  26. ^ Krader, Lawrence; Levitt, Cyril (2010). Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing. Peter Lang. pp. ix. ISBN 978-1-4331-0762-7.
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