Barbara Lattimer Krader

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.{{Cite news |date=1968-11-20 |title=Obituary for Gardner Lattimer |pages=29 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120328038/obituary-for-gardner-lattimer/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Vassar College in 1942, and was active in the school's "Composers Club" as a student.{{Cite news |date=February 8, 1941 |title=Composer's Club To Give First Student Concert In Thekla |pages=3 |work=Vassar Miscellany News |url=https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/?a=d&d=miscellany19410208-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=March 6, 2023}}

Lattimer earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1948, and studied at Prague University from 1948 to 1949.{{Cite journal |date=1961 |title=Notes and News |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/924318 |journal=Ethnomusicology |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=68–76 |jstor=924318 |issn=0014-1836}} She earned a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature at Radcliffe College in 1955,{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Betsy |date=1955-04-19 |title=Yugoslavians Flatter Teacher With Imitation of Ohio Accent |pages=12 |work=The Knoxville News-Sentinel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120324489/yugoslavians-flatter-teacher-with/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} under Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, with a dissertation titled "Serbian peasant wedding ritual songs: A formal, semantic and functional analysis."Rice, Timothy, and Mark Slobin. [https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/SF_Memorials_Krader "Barbara Krader (1922-2007) Memorial Citation"] The Society for Ethnomusicology.Krader, Barbara Lattimer. "Serbian Peasant Wedding Ritual Songs: A Formal, Semantic and Functional Analysis." PhD diss., Radcliffe College, 1955.

During her doctoral work, she traveled in Yugoslavia on a fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW),{{Cite news |date=1955-04-12 |title=AAUW 'Fellow' to Address Knox Board |pages=10 |work=The Knoxville News-Sentinel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120275474/aauw-fellow-to-address-knox-board/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Ketchin |first=Ansley |date=1955-04-07 |title=AAUW Fellow Says Yugoslavs' Greatest Desire is Freedom |pages=26 |work=The Charlotte Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120302916/aauw-fellow-says-yugoslavs-greatest/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1955-04-07 |title=Mrs. Barbara L. Krader |pages=22 |work=The Charlotte News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120303357/mrs-barbara-l-krader/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} teaching English classes for the State Department and collecting folksongs.{{Cite news |date=1955-04-17 |title=AAUW to Hear Mrs. Barbara Krader |pages=26 |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120275030/aauw-to-hear-mrs-barbara-krader/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1955-04-15 |title=Mrs. Krader to be Honored by AAUW |pages=27 |work=Nashville Banner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120275816/mrs-krader-to-be-honored-by-aauw/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} She worked in the music department of the Pan-American Union in the late 1950s.{{Cite news |date=1959-04-22 |title=Club Calendar |pages=57 |work=Evening Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120276009/club-calendar/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1959-04-22 |title=Club to Hold Latin Program |pages=55 |work=Evening Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120303103/club-to-hold-latin-program/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}

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.{{Cite news |date=1970-11-19 |title=To Offer New Courses |pages=12 |work=Mennonite Weekly Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120324284/to-offer-new-courses/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} From 1972 to 1973, she was the first woman to be elected president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.{{Cite book |last=Frisbie |first=Charlotte J. |title=Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1991 |isbn=9780226574097 |editor-last=Bettl |editor-first=Bruno |pages=255 |chapter=Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology |editor-last2=Bohlman |editor-first2=Philip V. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eeEkqBVQqI0C&dq=Barbara+Krader&pg=PA255}}

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.”[https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/HS_Krader "1985 Lecture: Barbara Krader"] The Society for Ethnomusicology. 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.{{Cite book |last=Nettl |first=Bruno |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G52eXTaLAEcC&dq=Barbara+Krader&pg=PA30 |title=Nettl's Elephant |date=2010-10-01 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09023-3 |pages=30 |language=en}}

• "Slavica: Czechoslovakia and Poland" (1962, with Janina W. Hoskins){{Cite journal |last1=Krader |first1=Barbara |last2=Hoskins |first2=Janina W. |date=1962 |title=Slavica: Czechoslovakia and Poland |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29781024 |journal=Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=233–247 |jstor=29781024 |issn=0090-0095}}
• "Soviet Research on Russian Music" (1963)
• "The Glagolitic Missal of 1483" (1963){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1963 |title=The Glagolitic Missal of 1483 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29781036 |journal=Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=93–98 |jstor=29781036 |issn=0090-0095}}
• "Viktor Mikhailovich Beliaev" (1968)
• "Bulgarian Folk Music Research" (1969){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1969 |title=Bulgarian Folk Music Research |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/850148 |journal=Ethnomusicology |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=248–266 |doi=10.2307/850148 |jstor=850148 |issn=0014-1836}}
• "The Russian Protiazhnaia 'Prolonged' Folk Song" (1969, with Viktor M. Beliaev){{Cite journal |last=Beliaev |first=Viktor M. |date=January 1969 |title=The Russian Protiazhnaia "Prolonged" Folk Song |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/yearbook-of-the-international-folk-music-council/article/abs/russian-protiazhnaia-prolonged-folk-song/50799233AE82717CE689CACDA5411B52 |journal=Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council |language=en |volume=1 |pages=165–175 |doi=10.2307/767638 |issn=0316-6082}}
• "Folk Music in Soviet Russia: Some Recent Publications" (1970){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1970 |title=Folk Music in Soviet Russia: Some Recent Publications |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/yearbook-of-the-international-folk-music-council/article/abs/folk-music-in-soviet-russia-some-recent-publications/19C38FF421C3A180BC7069DAB2F109E0 |journal=Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council |language=en |volume=2 |pages=148–154 |doi=10.2307/767433 |jstor=767433 |issn=0316-6082}}
• "Vasil Stoin, Bulgarian Folk Song Collector" (1980){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1980 |title=Vasil Stoin, Bulgarian Folk Song Collector |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/yearbook-of-the-international-folk-music-council/article/abs/vasil-stoin-bulgarian-folk-song-collector/1D1840A5C3FD66A5FFE9622FD2F3A56D |journal=Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council |language=en |volume=12 |pages=27–42 |doi=10.2307/767652 |jstor=767652 |issn=0316-6082}}
• "Ethnomusicology" (1980, entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
• "Slavic Folk Music: Forms of Singing and Self-Identity" (1987){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1987 |title=Slavic Folk Music: Forms of Singing and Self-Identity |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/852288 |journal=Ethnomusicology |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=9–17 |doi=10.2307/852288 |jstor=852288 |issn=0014-1836}}
• "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology" (1990){{Cite journal |last=Krader |first=Barbara |date=1990 |title=Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/767926 |journal=Yearbook for Traditional Music |volume=22 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.2307/767926 |jstor=767926 |s2cid=193116112 |issn=0740-1558}}

Lattimer married anthropologist Lawrence Krader in 1953.{{Cite book |last1=Krader |first1=Lawrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3_Y2YUovRUC&dq=Barbara+Lattimer+Krader&pg=PR9 |title=Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing |last2=Levitt |first2=Cyril |date=2010 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-1-4331-0762-7 |pages=ix |language=en}} She died in 2007, in Marion, Oregon, at the age of 85.

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