Folklig diktning om sjukvård och älgjakt
2019 (Svenska)Ingår i: Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv, ISSN 0347-1837, Vol. 142, s. 9-24Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]
This article explores the writing and circulation of poems as a 20th-century form of folklore, especially with local newspapers as a base for their publication. Poems about regional health care and about the elk hunting season are chosen as examples in order to focus on how writing poems can be a way of making public statements on matters of common interest in a regional (county) context. The examples show how different subject positions and varying attitudes towards a topic can be expressed through poems. A conscious choice of genre, such as prayer, thanksgiving, praise and accusation, can make positions clearer and give further emphasis to the tendency of the message. I also argue the importance of noticing poems, and local media in general, both in ethnographic research and in the documentation strategies of archives and museums. Poems can be a genre in which it is possible to speak of big and small questions in everyday life; writing them is one form of a local specialist role; and the local circulation of written texts (published or unpublished) is an important part of cultural history, a forerunner of social media. Local newspapers have been one of the few arenas where the voice of the public has been given space.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs akademien , 2019. Vol. 142, s. 9-24
Nyckelord [en]
folklore, poems, letters to the editor, local politics, elk hunting, health care, public discourse, literacy, local media
Nyckelord [sv]
folklore, diktning, lokalpolitik, insändare, älgjakt, sjukvård, skriftlighet, massmedier
Nationell ämneskategori
Etnologi Litteraturvetenskap
Forskningsämne
etnologi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176587OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-176587DiVA, id: diva2:1499431
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