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1. So Like Your Father (1880) 1. So Like Your Father (1880)
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2. He Never Misses (1880) 2. He Never Misses (1880)
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3. A Man Can Love Two Women (1880) 3. A Man Can Love Two Women (1880)
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4. A Working Woman (1882–1893) 4. A Working Woman (1882–1893)
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5. All I Have (1902) 5. All I Have (1902)
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LIBBY LARSEN (b. 1950)Songs From Letters: Calamity Jane to Her Daughter Janey, 1880–1902 (1989): Text adapted by the composer from Calamity Jane’s letters
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Published:July 2020
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This chapter studies Libby Larsen’s work. It shows that her forthright, accessible style is flexible enough to allow for a sensitive response to words, and a close identification with the subject matter. Her wide musical tastes are reflected clearly here and she is notably responsive to the inherent rhythms of American pronunciation. Moreover, this chapter shows how ‘Jane’ in Larsen’s songs was caricatured and sentimentalized in popular culture, and how historical facts were distorted. The composer’s programme note informs us that ‘Martha Jane Canary Hickock’ (her real name) wrote these letters to her daughter Janey during the time when the child had been sent to live in a ‘normal’ environment. ‘Calamity’ raised the money to support her by taking on often humiliating and dangerous work in the brutal, uncompromising Wild West.
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