DR. EDWARD D. IVES

I am interested in History and Art--in History, how people shape and bring the past into the present; in Art, how people shape the world they find around and within them into apposite forms they can share with others--and both as seen in the context of three continua (or tensions): orality vis à vis literacy, continuity vis à vis innovation, and the individual vis à vis society. Most of my research has concentrated on the oral traditions of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, particularly on local songs and their makers but also on cycles of tales about local heroes. See also the Maine Folklife Center.

Representative Publications:

Ives, Edward D. 1964. Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1977. Reprinted Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane Editions, 1993.

Ives, Edward D. 1971. Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island. Orono: University of Maine Press (Maine Studies No. 92).

Ives, Edward D. 1978. Joe Scott: The Woodsman Songmaker. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Ives, Edward D. 1988. George Magoon and the Down East Game War. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Reprinted (paperback) 1993.