E. C. Perrow
{{Short description|American professor of English (1880–1968)}}
Eber Carle Perrow (1880–1968) was an American professor of English who wrote about the literary history of the last will and testament and southern folk songs.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDdYEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22+railroad&pg=PA82|title=John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad|first=John|last=Garst|date=January 5, 2022|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476645803 |via=Google Books}} His writings on folk songs were influential.
He was born in Virginia and lived for a while in Tennessee. He received honors as a student at Trinity College in North Carolina{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaVIAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22&pg=RA3-PA113|title=Catalogue ...|first=Duke|last=University|date=January 7, 1901|via=Google Books}} where he received an A.B. degree in 1903 and an A.M. degree from the same school in 1905. He received a Doctor of Philology from Harvard University in 1910. He was an Edward Austin Fellow at Harvard.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riwdAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22&pg=PA142|title=Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College|first=Harvard|last=University|date=January 7, 1909|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qpIAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22&pg=PA275-IA1|title=Catalog of the Officers and Students of the University in Cambridge|first=Harvard|last=University|date=January 7, 1908|publisher=University Press--Hilliard and Metcalf|via=Google Books}} He was an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3MqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22&pg=PA489|title=Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University|first=Harvard|last=University|date=January 7, 1910|publisher=The University|via=Google Books}} He then became an English professor at the University of Louisville.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q-PdTJOPy8C&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22+railroad&pg=PA41|title=Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present|first=Pippa|last=Holloway|date=January 7, 2008|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820329840 |via=Google Books}}
While a student at Trinity, he wrote about the controversy that ensued from Trinity professor John Spencer Bassett's editorial "Stirring Up the Fires of Racial Antipathy" about the work of Democratic Party aligned editorialists.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwbdAFMKmAgC&dq=%22eber+perrow%22&pg=PA51|title=Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé|first=Alexander S.|last=Leidholdt|date=May 1, 2002|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=9780807127513 |via=Google Books}}
After his retirement from University teaching, he published the 17 page book "Unto the Hills" in 1955 and the 8 page book "Background" in 1956.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/e-c-perrow-.aspx|title=Bluegrass Messengers - E. C. Perrow (1880-1968)|website=www.bluegrassmessengers.com}}
Songs from the South
His Songs and Rhymes from the South was published in the Journal of American Folk-Lore in three parts.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNIWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Songs+and+Rhymes+from+the+South%22&pg=PA137|title=Journal of American Folklore|date=January 7, 1913|publisher=American Folk-lore Society|via=Google Books}} Volume I: Songs of Outlaws (1911) vol. 25, pages 137–155.
Volume II. Songs in which animals figure (1913) vol. 26, pages 123–173{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xllbnGUeoncC&dq=%22Songs+and+Rhymes+from+the+South%22+%22+Songs+in+which+animals+figure%22&pg=PA123|title=The Journal of American Folklore|date=January 7, 1913|publisher=American Folk-lore Society|via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/534371|title=Songs and Rhymes from the South|author=Perrow, E. C.|year=1913|journal=The Journal of American Folklore|volume=26|issue=100|pages=123–173|doi=10.2307/534371|jstor=534371 |url-access=subscription}}
Volumes III-VIII: Game songs and nursery rhymes, Religious songs and parodies of religious songs, Songs connected with the railroad, Songs connected with drinking and gambling, Songs of the plantation, Songs of love (1915) vol. 28, pp. 129–190
He wrote an article on the literary history of the last will and testament.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgQy0Zo0sRQC|title=The Last Will and Testament as a Form of Literature|via=books.google.com|last1=Perrow |first1=Eber Carle |year=1913 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxEIEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22eber+carle+perrow%22&pg=PT283|title=The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature|first1=W. Michelle|last1=Wang|first2=Daniel K.|last2=Jernigan|first3=Neil|last3=Murphy|year=2020|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781000220742 |via=Google Books}}
The Berea Collection includes "correspondence, song texts, and folklore narrative material collected from students by folklore scholar E. C. Perrow, while he was teaching at the University of Louisville diring the early teens of the 1900s. Narrative subject areas include anecdotes, games, riddles, rhymes and superstitions."{{Cite web|url=https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/data/52183383|title=Guide to the Stuart Robinson School Collection, 1913–1957|access-date=2023-01-07|archive-date=2012-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218224038/http://www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/saa78.asp}}
Perrow was an influence on Arthur Palmer Hudson.{{Cite web|url=https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll43/id/1268/|title=Page 11|website=digital.ncdcr.gov}}{{cite web | url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/arthur-palmer-hudson/ | title=Hudson, Arthur Palmer }}
D. K. Wilgus built on the work of folklorists including Pertow.{{Cite web|url=https://berea.libraryhost.com/?p=collections/findingaid&id=67&q=&rootcontentid=73333|title=D. K. Wilgus Folklore Collection, 1918-1989 | Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog|website=berea.libraryhost.com}} Berea College has documents Wilgus collected from Perrow and his students.{{Cite web|url=https://berea.libraryhost.com/?p=collections/findingaid&id=67&q=&rootcontentid=73333#id73333|title=D. K. Wilgus Folklore Collection, 1918-1989 | Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog|website=berea.libraryhost.com}}
He filed for copyright protection for his words and music to the song "Louisville" in 1916.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVwcAQAAIAAJ|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries|year=1917 |via=books.google.com}}
Songs
Songs published in his collection include:
- "The State of Arkansaw"{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-state-of-arkansaw-song-5895/|title=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}} (State of Arkansas (folk song)
- "I Love Coffee"{{Cite web|url=https://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/ballads/Br3091.html|title=She Loves Coffee and I Love Tea|website=www.csufresno.edu}}
- "Ballad of Casey Jones"{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFWFYtmvAzUC&dq=e.c.+perrow&pg=PA126|title=The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism|first=Leigh Anne|last=Duck|date=January 7, 2009|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820334189 |via=Google Books}}
- "Run, Nigger, Run"
- "This Old Hammer"
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