Dear Pene et al, Personally I was very heartened to see, on his website, http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/about/people/dr-david-hopkin
"He is the process of initiating two new projects: one on the working lives and culture of lacemakers from Flanders through to Northern Italy and Spain;" Which sounds very promising. Thus guy writes books. Sometimes there is a use for publish or perish. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where every day the 8 Bradford Pear trees in the park behind my house get closer to being in full bloom. > >Yesterday evening I attended a lecture hosted by the University of Tartu's >Department of Scandinavian Studies. >David Hopkin, an Oxford professor, is a very interesting person & an >articulate speaker. > >His lecture was based on the 6th chapter of his book titled >"Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France". >http://www.academia.edu/1529492/Voices_of_the_People_in_Nineteenth-Century_France >This chapter tells about the 18th Century songs that had been collected >& recorded, from the lacemakers of Vellave (Le Puy-en-Valey) while they >made lace in their homes. > >Personally, I think that maybe the songs were sung to help keep their >minds active while doing the monotonous repetition of the piecework or >yardage. Nowadays we use radios & play musical CDs, or even listen to >audio books, to make our time more productive while relieving the quiet >and boredom. > "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
