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English
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Portraits in Song : Gleanings from the Brigham Young Folk Song Cycle
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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337-350
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This article will explore the contrasting images of Brigham Young portrayed through folksongs performed during his lifetime and remembered or composed in succeeding generations. With humor and wit, fervor and faith, Brigham Young’s detractors and followers combined words with music to create and promote portraits of Young as lasting and as telling as any visual representations. We will consider the power of singing to express deeply felt opinions about a significant nineteenth-century religious leader and historical figure, while also addressing how tradition creates and maintains a group interpretation of values and worldview. [From the text]