THE GIRLS of CAMP KOCH Fredericka A. Schmadel
GODDESS IN THE GREENWOOD: THE GIRLS OF CAMP KOCH Fredericka A. Schmadel Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University May 2014 Accepted by the Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Doctoral Committee: ______________________________ John Holmes McDowell, PhD Chairperson ______________________________ Gregory Schrempp, PhD Member ______________________________ Hasan El-Shamy, PhD Member ______________________________ Henry Glassie, PhD Member January 24, 2014 ii Copyright © 2014 Fredericka A. Schmadel iii Dedicated to the Memory of Lou Froehle and Marion Woolcott With thanks and deep appreciation to Professors John Holmes McDowell, Hasan El- Shamy, Gregory Schrempp, Henry Glassie, Elizabeth Tucker, Jay Mechling, Hildegard Keller, and Linda Degh, who critiqued my work and encouraged me; And with endless gratitude to Donna Kopach, Karen Selby, Virginia Letsinger Hale, Anne Katherine, Ann Briel Weston, Cassandra Major, Sharon White, Judy Burns, David Coker, Peter Hare, Lori Meyers, Beth Heil, and the Kochies, who set me on the right path, again and again; And with endless appreciation to my parents, Earl and Martha Schmadel, who sent me to Girl Scout camp in 1958 and thereafter, and by doing so, opened my eyes and mind. iv Fredericka A. Schmadel GODDESS IN THE GREENWOOD: THE GIRLS OF CAMP KOCH Worldview, myth, and the 1960s come together in a song, ritual, and legend corpus preserved in oral transmission, central to an Indiana Girl Scout camp’s cultural production. As Levi-Strauss disciple Lee Drummond might describe it, Camp Henry F.
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