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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage (review)

Both the "they" and the "truth" here are multivalent concepts that Romalis revisits continually in the book. Molly's "truth" often clashes with and informs truths uttered by family, acquaintances, scholars, and, as Romalis reveals, the unofficial-yet-popular "truth" about folkmusic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Each of the "theys" putting forth the different and conflicting truths in the book are both part of, and outside of, the "truth" Molly believed and proclaimed during her life. It is through this book that we realize the complex ways that all of these truths weave together to form a whole life-that of Aunt Molly Jackson-with many facets: wife, activist, sister, folksinger, mid-wife, union organizer, and folkloristic "informant."