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 | | Folklorists document these traditions to preserve and share them with people both inside and outside the community. | | | A folklorist can help the community see the value in the things they do. | | | The folklorist then shares his knowledge with others. |
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http://www.carts.org/artist_wilson7.html
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| | j. - Folklorist looks at ‘soul of Judaism’ through story |
| | Diane Wolkstein’s “Treasures of the Heart,” subtitled “Holiday Stories that Reveal the Soul of Judaism,” is an original and perceptive interpretation of Jewish holidays and the biblical stories that reveal their deepest meanings. | | | That said, “Treasures of the Heart” is a book of real power by a noted folklorist whose impressive scholarship will bring the reader back to the Bible, to read or reread, debate and ponder. | | | Folklorist looks at ‘soul of Judaism’ through story |
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http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23595/format/html/displaystory.html
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| | Florida Folklorists |
| | Not only was she Florida’s first state folklorist, she was one of the only employees during the program’s first years. | | | During his tenure as a state folklorist in 1992, Stone discovered in South Florida the use of steel guitars in African American Pentecostal House of God churches. | | | Robert L. Stone is a folklorist based in Gainesville, Florida. |
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http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/folklorists.cfm
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| | deseretnews.com It's tradition: A folklorist's life |
| | In most communities and cultures — certainly, the lucky ones — there are people whom folklorists call "tradition bearers." They are people who, knowingly or unknowingly, learn the methods, techniques, lifeways of their fathers; use them; and generally pass them on to their children. | | | But, said folklorist Bert Wilson, who recently retired from Brigham Young University, you have to be careful not to over-romanticize the people and places of this Western agriculture tradition. | | | In a keynote address at the AFS meetings, Wilson shared stories and experiences of his mother, who grew up in the little town of Riddyville in southern Idaho in "grinding poverty" that haunted her throughout her life. |
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595099819,00.html
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| | Folklorist Alan Dundes dead at 70 MetaFilter |
| | The world-renowned folklorist, 70, tackled everything from religion to political jokes with an infectious enthusiam that endeared him to students, academics, and laymen alike. | | | He was a bombastic, vaudevillian and often rude professor who wouldn't hesitate in offending everyone in the class if it would prove a point. | | | Alan Dundes' Introduction to Folkloristics at UC Berkeley was one of the most memorable and entertaining classes on campus and was certainly a highlight of my education there. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40896
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| | CNN.com - Career - In folklore we trust: Careers of tradition - February 2, 2001 |
| | Not lots of planning, but plenty of providence. | | | Folklorists study traditional aspects of culture, things that get passed along for generations informally through observation or oral history. | | | Folklorist Peggy Bulger is a prime example of a person who has found by accident what she considers to be the perfect career. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/02/02/folklore
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| | New York Folklore Society Newsletter |
| | I decided to pursue a career as a folklorist when I was just eighteen years old and have worked with traditional and community cultures for over twenty years now. | | | As a consultant in community cultural programming, I have specialized in designing and publicizing programs for underserved and community audiences, directing and coordinating numerous folklore and community cultural projects in a variety of rural and urban settings. | | | My decision to be a folklorist was precipitated by a lecture given in St. Louis in 1976 by Joe Hickerson, then the head of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress. |
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http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/news/nlfw98/condon.html
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| | The Art of Retelling (Writing Children's Books, Folktales) |
| | Even as the Storyteller and the Folklorist bicker between themselves, both must deal also with the Author. | | | It is one of the greatest joys of the Folklorist to produce a detailed author note on the sources and cultural context of the story—documentation increasingly demanded and scrutinized by educators and librarians. | | | And all at once a loosely-related string of events becomes a unified story, a “slight” tale becomes a sellable manuscript. |
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http://www.aaronshep.com/kidwriter/A62.html
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| | Rachel Pruitt: Folklorist, Storyteller, Teacher |
| | They are part of the mysterious power of story to reach into our world and help us see and understand some of the greatest truths of our lives. | | | Folklorist, storyteller, and teacher Rachel Pruitt has developed a process in which 'real life' issues are transformed into personal 'life myths'. | | | Using the ancient power of storytelling in combination with writing, drama, movement, music, and art, Rachel's students create original myths as unique as their own life stories. |
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http://www.focusas.com/Rachel.html
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| | New York Folklore Society Newsletter |
| | New Yorkers become members of the multicultural community that is New York City not just by living here but by choosing to participate in it, by interacting with our neighbors, learning about their lives and traditions, and by sharing our lives and traditions with them. | | | Fortunately I was able to provide her with an alternative which she liked. | | | I told him I got a job as the Queens folklorist. |
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http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/news/nlws98/queens.html
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| | Starting Over:
A. L. Lloyd and the Search for a New Folk Music, 1945-49 |
| | Lloyd was thus proposing a wider definition of folk-song than Sharp’s, to accommodate the great variety of material that he saw as part of American traditional culture. | | | It was only during the last few years, he argued, that folklorists had come to realize the ubiquity of folk-song in the United States and the richness of folk traditions that were of comparatively recent origin. | | | He is remembered as an influential revival singer who taught a younger generation of folk singers much of their traditional repertoire. |
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http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/27/27_gregory.html
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| | Quotations |
| | Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. | | | She called in her soul to come and see. | | | QUOTATION: She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her, but she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things. |
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http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/quotations/pmTheirEyes01.asp
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| | Folklorist Juwen Zhang |
| | Please click here to send me your message. | | | to the homepage of a language instructor, a translator, and a folklorist -- |
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http://www.willamette.edu/~juwen/moreaboutjz.htm
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| | Rhodes: Noted Southern Folklorist Gives Public Lecture at Rhodes |
| | Noted Southern Folklorist Gives Public Lecture at Rhodes | | | You are here: HOME > Calendars > Noted Southern Folklorist Gives Public Lecture at Rhodes | | | Rhodes: Noted Southern Folklorist Gives Public Lecture at Rhodes |
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http://www.rhodes.edu/Calendars/VisitingScholarWilliamFerris.cfm
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| | There is no question of a folklorist having anything like the entire insight into a child, but he or she can contribute a significant illumination which becomes part of the therapeutic team's working. | | | The folklorist has a potential role, therefore, in illuminating the workings of therapeutic communities generally, and the how and why of individual communities. | | | From the folkloristic point of view the therapeutic community is, in effect, an intense laboratory, a "field" which trades in symbolisation and communication as its method of being. |
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http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/folklorist.htm
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| | A Folklorist Meets Hollywood |
| | Folklorists, I believe, can obtain work as KM specialists and contribute a body of knowledge to the KM field. | | | Folklorists have been working within and around organizations for years now but are not generally well known in the business community. | | | They asked me, as an outside consultant and as a Folklorist, to contribute my field of knowledge to their project. |
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http://www.temple.edu/isllc/newfolk/kmdietz1.html
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| | Folklorist Alan Lomax's trove goes to library LJWorld.com |
| | The book was inscribed to Lomax "in the vanguard and in the traditions." Botkin, Harvey says, succeeded Lomax as the library's primary folklorist. | | | Father and son made their first recordings for the library in the summer of 1933. | | | From a very early age, Alan Lomax -- sometimes working with his folklorist father, John Lomax -- collected examples of music and folkways from around the world. |
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http://www.ljworld.com/section/arts/story/165568
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| | the first Folklorist Festival |
| | This particular folkloristic group presents a performance consisting of different kinds of shows such as: |
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http://www.giopimargi.com/gioppining.html
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| | 2002 GRANT AWARDS - Leadership Initiative Grants |
| | Folklorists will be placed in four cultural institutions that serve rural and underserved regions presently challenged by demographic and cultural shifts. | | | The position will focus on documenting traditional artists living in the northern region of the state. | | | The apprenticeship program is a time-honored way for master artists to pass their skills on to apprentices within their community. |
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http://arts.endow.gov/grants/recent/02grants/Leadership.html
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| | Folklore: William Alexander Clouston , folklorist: introduction and bibliography |
| | While it might not be strictly true, as Hartland claimed in his "Obituary," that he did not enquire into the origin of the narratives that interested him, it is certainly true that he did not investigate their meaning. | | | He was not an anthropological folklorist and, above all, he did not theorise about folklore nor take part in the controversy over the nature, origin and diffusion of folktales, which was such a conspicuous feature in folklore journals and congresses in the last two decades of the century (Dorson 1968a, 202-265 (esp. 218) and 298-307). | | | He lived in Glasgow and took little part in the activities of The Folk-Lore Society in which the other team members were such leading lights. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2386/is_3_115/ai_n8586207
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) |
| | Professional folklorists praised his work in popularizing black storytelling traditions. | | | Obituary writers were not exaggerating when they eulogized this celebrated middle Georgia writer as "the most beloved man in America." Only Harris's friend and admirer, Mark Twain, who died two years later, surpassed Harris in popular reputation at the beginning of the twentieth century. | | | One of the South's most treasured authors, Joel Chandler Harris gained national prominence for his numerous volumes of Uncle Remus folktales. |
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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-525
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| | Who is Leadbelly? |
| | Apparently an African American blues singer who went by the odd name of “Leadbelly”, was born to do both -- and the latter was almost his undoing. | | | It was there that he met John Lomax. | | | Leadbelly seemed to have a great future ahead, but at the pinnacle of his fame tragedy struck. |
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http://pa.essortment.com/whoisleadbelly_rqrx.htm
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| | BERKELEY / UC folklorist Dundes dies while teaching / His scholarship helped to create an academic discipline |
| | The regard for him has been so great that one of his former students sent him a check for $1 million in 2000. | | | "He was certainly the most famous academic folklorist in the world," said one of his faculty colleagues, Daniel Melia, who teaches rhetoric and Celtic studies. | | | A list of his scholarly work fills several pages, with more than 250 articles, 12 books that he wrote alone and more than 20 other books that he co- wrote or edited, including a new four-volume set of folklore readings. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/01/BAGLHC1NOC1.DTL
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| | Louisiana Regional Folklife Program |
| | The folklorist can encourage responsible approaches to cultural tourism and cultural conservation, which will not endanger the traditional community. | | | Community members in each region will have access to a folklorist to assist them in identifying individuals and traditions that can be presented to the public and in schools. | | | The Regional Folklorist can help communities determine effective and responsible means of presenting the findings in cultural tourism efforts by offering communities potential activities for visitors. |
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http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LFP/main_reg_folk_program.html
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| | Fieldwork is the primary method by which folklorists learn about a community and its traditional arts. | | | As these art forms draw their life and meaning from their communal context, a folklorist must take the time to get to know the region in which he works. | | | A folklorist will research local history through libraries, historical societies, and other such public resources, but will just as importantly spend time attending community events (county fairs, town festivals), contacting village historians and community groups, and interviewing traditional artists. |
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http://www.artswyco.org/Folk_Page.html
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| | Folklorist Ensemble KVÍTEK Hradec Kralove |
| | The ensemble, together with the Folklorist Association of the Czech Republic and the Hradec Cultural and Educational Society, is annually an organizer of the festival Rendezvous of Folklore with international participation. | | | The organizer of the ensemble is The Youth and Children Centre of Hradec Kralove. | | | The ensemble Kvitek is specific as for the members´ age - at present there belong about 30 members (ranging from children to grown up young people), including the band. |
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http://www.volny.cz/kvitek.hk/en
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| | Folkloristics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists. | | | Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. | | | It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp. |
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| | 2002 Summer |
| | Folklorist Elaine Thatcher has been working as a consultant in South Dakota for several years. | | | Lund is a specialist in river traditions, and he will be seeking out people with knowledge of boating, fishing, hunting, houseboats, stories and beliefs about the river, and the arts that go with them. | | | It has been demonstrated that when there is no folklorist working in the state, we can lose touch with people like National Heritage Fellowship winners Alice New Holy, Kevin Locke, and Nellie Starboy Menard. |
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http://www.sdarts.org/news/news_summer2002.html
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| | Australian Folk Songs: A.L.Lloyd Interview |
| | He has made many records and published several books of and about folk songs, and is today perhaps the most distinguished folklorist in the English-speaking world. | | | I must have had many lapses of memory, and a complete absence of discipline, because I wasn't concerned as a folklorist. | | | They're quite often, by European standards, especially East European, still like 19th century romantic folklorists rather than modern scientific folklorists. |
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http://unionsong.com/muse/songnet/reviews/lloyd
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| | Folklore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore objectively. | | | The academic study of folklore is known as folkloristics. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore
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| | theFolklorist.com-Recommended Reading |
| | Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter tell you about her best friend who went to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked (the title story)? | | | From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. | | | Some 500 articles encompass folk literature, music, and crafts of major and minor ethnic groups, urban and rural, traditional and contemporary traditions, as well as including entries for folklorists (those whose body of work is completed, i.e. |
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| | Folklorist Ensemble KVÍTEK Hradec Kralove |
| | The festive pre-Christmas atmosphere is intensified by jointly singing at the end of the evening. | | | The ensemble Kvitek, together with the Folklorist Association of the Czech Republic, is annually an organizer of the festival Rendezvous of Folklore with international participation. | | | This event is regularly arranged in the last third of August and usually 4-5 ensembles come. |
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| | The Hindu : Other States / Rajasthan News : U.S. varsity to honour folklorist |
| | The Hindu : Other States / Rajasthan News : U.S. varsity to honour folklorist | | | The University of Columbia, U.S., will organise an international conference in New York on May 20 to honour the intellectual contributions of noted folklorist and pioneering cultural researcher of Rajasthan, Komal Kothari, who died in Jodhpur recently. | | | Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/15/stories/2004051509920400.htm
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| | The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress |
| | The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/znhhome.html
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| | NYSCA : New York State Council on the Arts |
| | The folklorist must be employed for a minimum of three days a week. | | | Staff folklorists must organize a minimum of four significant public programs each year | | | The programming and documentation of the folklorist should deal with diverse traditions and multiple forms of folk art, and occur in multiple venues within the organization's service area. |
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http://www.nysca.org/public/guidelines/folk_arts/regional.htm
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| | Organizations:The New Jersey Folklore Society |
| | Today, the membership brings together those who work in universities, those who work in museums, arts agencies, and folklife centers, and those who practice, preserve, and document traditional culture in their own communities. | | | It was founded in 1945 to promote the collection and study of folklore and traditional culture in the Garden State. | | | William Westerman, folklorist, Drake House Museum, Historical Society of Plainfield |
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http://www.njfolklife.com/organizations/org_njfc.shtml
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| | Louisiana Folklife: Acknowledgements and Credits |
| | Marc David received a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of North Carolina. | | | Susan Roach, Ph.D., is a folklorist and Regional Folklorist for Northeast and North Central Louisiana in the Department of English at Louisiana Tech University. | | | Madeline Domangue Cagle is a folklorist and instructor in English at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. |
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http://www.louisianafolklife.org/main_credits.html
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| | Florida Folklorist, Social Activist and Writer Stetson Kennedy to Speak on March 25 |
| | The most famous of the folklorists who worked under Kennedy’s direction was the celebrated African American novelist and playwright, Zora Neale Hurston. | | | His group conducted unprecedented field research throughout the state that documented hundreds of traditional stories and songs, occupational cultures and many other aspects of Florida’s diverse cultural heritage. | | | This lecture is presented by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, part of its Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series, and cosponsored by Holland and Knight LLP. |
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http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-057.html
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| | Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) |
| | Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975) was a pioneering folklorist who believed that people continually create folklore out of their collective experiences. | | | Botkin left today’s folklorists an inspiring treasury of ideas and phrases that they readily use and honor, and the American Folklife Center itself is heavily indebted to his work as both a folklorist and a government official. | | | For all these reasons, the American Folklife Center has chosen to name this lecture series in his honor. |
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http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/botkin-lectures.html
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| | theFolklorist.com-Main Page-Pareidolia Data Uploaded |
| | simulacra, simulacrum, pareidolia, jesus in a tortilla, jesus tortilla, satan in smoke, satan smoke, angel in clouds, angel clouds, mike pinney, michael pinney, folklore, psychology, folklorist |
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| | Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Río Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection, 1940 |
| | Linguist and folklorist Juan Bautista Rael, highly regarded for his pioneering work in collecting and documenting the Hispano folk stories, plays, and religious traditions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, was born on August 14, 1900, in | | | By then his work had attracted the attention of pioneer Hispano folklorist and mentor Aurelio Espinosa who invited Rael to Stanford in 1933. | | | Undoubtedly, the instincts and sympathies of Rael the folklorist can be traced to these beginnings -- watching rehearsals and performances depicting shepherds, angels, hermits, and devils. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rgrael.html
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| | In her role both as folklorist and member of the human relations council, she works to help others see both the similarities and differences between people and cultures. | | | For the past six years she worked as the folklorist at Hiddenite Center, a small folk and cultural arts organization in Alexander County in western North Carolina, where she helps to preserve traditional arts. | | | Tasks included arranging performances by local old time, bluegrass, gospel, and blues musicians; organizing exhibits of various folk arts, such as handmade instruments, quilts, baskets; and coordinating multicultural fairs for schools in a 5-county area. |
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http://www.lucy-allen.com/folklorist.htm
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| | Folklore of Blue Moon, Philip Hiscock, IPS Planetarian |
| | Of course folklorists know that the traditional belief is widespread that certain crops harvested by the light of the moon, or alternatively in the waning of the moon, keep better than those cut at other times. | | | Well, if this is what the authors did, they lost out because the term immediately entered the folklore of the modern world and it has become as living a meaning of the term "blue moon" as any of the earlier ones. | | | Almost every day I use computer networks to contact other folklorists around the world, so I started with them. |
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http://www.griffithobs.org/IPSBlueMoon.html
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| | Jimmy Driftwood, Folklorist, Musician, Songwriter, Teacher, 1907 - 1998 |
| | Thanks for all the blessings you gave us with a life well lived. | | | Chorus from "The Battle of New Orleans" by Jimmy Driftwood, voted during the 1980s one of the 10 most popular American songs of all time. | | | He had been hospitalized for several weeks after an extended illness. |
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http://billslater.com/driftwood.htm
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| | American Studies Newsletters |
| | And it wasn’t just that there were three other people with me. It did seem that I was still ultimately safe—even there, even, I suppose, if I had not been able to get back out again. | | | What follows will probably read like one of those Dewar’s Scotch ads—you know, where someone does something really risky or adventuresome and then sits around with friends drinking scotch and feeling proud and smug as though they had proved something. | | | American Studies from Afar
IU Folklorist Sandra Dolby on Moonlight, Caves, and Life Passages in Norway |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~amst/dolby.html
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| | Mythology [encyclopedia] |
| | Myths are stories that narrate the structure and origins of a culture. | | | Recent scholarship has been either folklorist or structuralist, finding unexpected parallels in myths from widely different sources, and showing their function in determining social behaviour. | | | Some writers (such as Blake, Tolkien, and Yeats) have created mythical systems of their own by synthesizing disparate materials. |
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http://artzia.com/History/Ideas/Mythology
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| | S. Kwaku Daddy - Internationally Known Master Drummer and Folklorist |
| | Internationally known Master Drummer and folklorist, S. Kwaku Daddy, introduces traditional culture, music, dance and stories of Ghana, as well as other African countries to children and teachers of America. | | | A dynamic performer and spellbinding folklorist, he brings history alive through customs and ritual tradition reflected in the vibrant sounds and rhythms of the African surroundings. | | | The introduction, presented through Daddy's performances, workshops, books and recordings discusses how art and culture reflect the inner lives of African people. |
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http://www.skwaku.com
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| | Folklorist from Connemara |
| | At an early age he realized he was not meant to live in his parent's home. | | | A short drive from Greenville, South Carolina, through the foothills, brings one into North Carolina and soon, if the right turn-off is not missed, to Connemara, the mountain home of the late Carl Sandburg, American poet and folklorist. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/folklore/11377
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