Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153384
- eISBN:
- 9781400841820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153384.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter continues the examination of neglected stories and collectors of folk tales. It explores the significance of collections in Germany, France, Italy, and other European countries that led ...
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This chapter continues the examination of neglected stories and collectors of folk tales. It explores the significance of collections in Germany, France, Italy, and other European countries that led to a greater cultural interest in folklore. In England, after the foundation of the British Folklore Society, a great effort was also made by British and American folklorists to translate folk tales from other countries, such as India, China, Japan, and Africa. Yet their full impact has never been appreciated because the majority of the European folk-tale collections have not been translated or studied in English-speaking countries. For instance, until recently, one of the most exceptional of the great nineteenth-century European and American folklorists, Pitrè, was ignored. The chapter considers his life and works to demonstrate how he is an exemplary representative of those learned, dedicated folklorists who tried to make the past usable so that we might learn something about ourselves.Less
This chapter continues the examination of neglected stories and collectors of folk tales. It explores the significance of collections in Germany, France, Italy, and other European countries that led to a greater cultural interest in folklore. In England, after the foundation of the British Folklore Society, a great effort was also made by British and American folklorists to translate folk tales from other countries, such as India, China, Japan, and Africa. Yet their full impact has never been appreciated because the majority of the European folk-tale collections have not been translated or studied in English-speaking countries. For instance, until recently, one of the most exceptional of the great nineteenth-century European and American folklorists, Pitrè, was ignored. The chapter considers his life and works to demonstrate how he is an exemplary representative of those learned, dedicated folklorists who tried to make the past usable so that we might learn something about ourselves.
M. Heather Carver and Elaine J. Lawless
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732085
- eISBN:
- 9781604733471
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732085.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This book, which follows the collaboration between the author, a performance studies professor, and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless, traces the creative development of a performance troupe ...
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This book, which follows the collaboration between the author, a performance studies professor, and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless, traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence and then invite audience members to discuss the tales. Similar to the performances, it presents real-life narratives as a means of heightening social awareness and dialogue about intimate partner violence. “Troubling violence” refers not only to the cultures in our society that are “troubling,” but also to the authors’ intent to “trouble” perceptions that enforce social, cultural, legal, and religious attitudes that perpetuate abuse against women. Performance, the book argues, enhances ethnographic research and writing by allowing ethnographers to approach both their field studies and their ethnographic writing as performance. The book also demonstrates how ethnography enhances the study of performance. The authors discuss the development of the Troubling Violence Performance Project in conjunction with their own “performances” within the academy.Less
This book, which follows the collaboration between the author, a performance studies professor, and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless, traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence and then invite audience members to discuss the tales. Similar to the performances, it presents real-life narratives as a means of heightening social awareness and dialogue about intimate partner violence. “Troubling violence” refers not only to the cultures in our society that are “troubling,” but also to the authors’ intent to “trouble” perceptions that enforce social, cultural, legal, and religious attitudes that perpetuate abuse against women. Performance, the book argues, enhances ethnographic research and writing by allowing ethnographers to approach both their field studies and their ethnographic writing as performance. The book also demonstrates how ethnography enhances the study of performance. The authors discuss the development of the Troubling Violence Performance Project in conjunction with their own “performances” within the academy.
Yiannis Gabriel
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198290957
- eISBN:
- 9780191684845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290957.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
Drawing from the folklorist, this book focuses on stories and storytelling in the narrow sense of narratives with simple but resonant plots and characters, involving narrative skill, entailing risk, ...
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Drawing from the folklorist, this book focuses on stories and storytelling in the narrow sense of narratives with simple but resonant plots and characters, involving narrative skill, entailing risk, and aiming to entertain, persuade, and win over. This chapter presents arguments that try to vindicate the insights of folklorists, while also accepting some vital lessons from modernism and postmodernism. Organizational stories develop their characters and plots from the personal experiences of individuals in organizations. The argument that emerges through this book is that storytelling is not dead in most organizations. Organizations do possess a living folklore, though this is not equally dense or equally vibrant in all of them. This folklore, its vitality, breadth, and character, can give researchers valuable insights into the nature of organizations.Less
Drawing from the folklorist, this book focuses on stories and storytelling in the narrow sense of narratives with simple but resonant plots and characters, involving narrative skill, entailing risk, and aiming to entertain, persuade, and win over. This chapter presents arguments that try to vindicate the insights of folklorists, while also accepting some vital lessons from modernism and postmodernism. Organizational stories develop their characters and plots from the personal experiences of individuals in organizations. The argument that emerges through this book is that storytelling is not dead in most organizations. Organizations do possess a living folklore, though this is not equally dense or equally vibrant in all of them. This folklore, its vitality, breadth, and character, can give researchers valuable insights into the nature of organizations.
Ronald Hutton
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205708
- eISBN:
- 9780191676758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205708.003.0025
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, British and Irish Early Modern History
For the next 60 years, the notion of the origins of morris put forward by Sir Edmund Chambers and Cecil Sharp held sway among the public in general and among folkdancers and folklorists in ...
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For the next 60 years, the notion of the origins of morris put forward by Sir Edmund Chambers and Cecil Sharp held sway among the public in general and among folkdancers and folklorists in particular. The latter two groups carried out a very valuable amount of additional fieldwork and research into the recent history of the dance. It was, however, always interpreted within the same theoretical framework, authors differing only over the precise relationship between the different varieties of ritual dance and drama in their common descent from the religion of the Neolithic. To preserve Sharp's definition of ‘purity’, upon his death in 1924 the English Folk Dance Society set up a Board of Artistic Control to vet all additions to the repertoire.Less
For the next 60 years, the notion of the origins of morris put forward by Sir Edmund Chambers and Cecil Sharp held sway among the public in general and among folkdancers and folklorists in particular. The latter two groups carried out a very valuable amount of additional fieldwork and research into the recent history of the dance. It was, however, always interpreted within the same theoretical framework, authors differing only over the precise relationship between the different varieties of ritual dance and drama in their common descent from the religion of the Neolithic. To preserve Sharp's definition of ‘purity’, upon his death in 1924 the English Folk Dance Society set up a Board of Artistic Control to vet all additions to the repertoire.
Ronald Hutton
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203636
- eISBN:
- 9780191675911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203636.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter talks about the different case studies carried out to determine the age of the various customs involved. Were the ecclesiastical ceremonies those of the Anglo-Saxons? Were the secular ...
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This chapter talks about the different case studies carried out to determine the age of the various customs involved. Were the ecclesiastical ceremonies those of the Anglo-Saxons? Were the secular customs equally old or indeed yet more ancient so that they represented relics of pagan religion? Were both part of an unchanging, immemorial culture? Excellent case-studies have been made of the origin of specific rites, and folklorists have collected material for further investigation, but this information needs to be rationalized and extended before an overall view can be obtained. Literary and legal records were the only evidence available until the later Middle ages. Then accounts, which featured so prominently in discussions of the 16th century, appear to provide a fairly precise guide to the inception of particular customs.Less
This chapter talks about the different case studies carried out to determine the age of the various customs involved. Were the ecclesiastical ceremonies those of the Anglo-Saxons? Were the secular customs equally old or indeed yet more ancient so that they represented relics of pagan religion? Were both part of an unchanging, immemorial culture? Excellent case-studies have been made of the origin of specific rites, and folklorists have collected material for further investigation, but this information needs to be rationalized and extended before an overall view can be obtained. Literary and legal records were the only evidence available until the later Middle ages. Then accounts, which featured so prominently in discussions of the 16th century, appear to provide a fairly precise guide to the inception of particular customs.
Elizabeth Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617033087
- eISBN:
- 9781617033094
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617033087.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her ...
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Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth’s mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family’s music and name to an international audience. This book is a memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories, music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. It is the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. The book details the ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart’s family, the story of her mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart’s speaking voice.Less
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth’s mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family’s music and name to an international audience. This book is a memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories, music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. It is the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. The book details the ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart’s family, the story of her mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart’s speaking voice.
Andrew R. Martin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812407
- eISBN:
- 9781496812445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812407.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter talks about the role the legendary singer, political activist, and folklorist Pete Seeger played as a steelband consultant to Admiral Gallery during the band's formative years. Seeger ...
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This chapter talks about the role the legendary singer, political activist, and folklorist Pete Seeger played as a steelband consultant to Admiral Gallery during the band's formative years. Seeger played an important but little-known role in fostering and encouraging steelband activity in the United States. The chapter demonstrates Seeger in action and offers a case study in which the folksinger employs his unique skills as a folklorist, political activist, musician, and steelband consultant. It also illustrates Admiral Gallery in action and highlights the admiral's wit, diplomatic skill, and passion in pursuit of something he thought was for the good of the American public. Both men were products of the time and their intersection aids in further understanding the social environment of the 1950s.Less
This chapter talks about the role the legendary singer, political activist, and folklorist Pete Seeger played as a steelband consultant to Admiral Gallery during the band's formative years. Seeger played an important but little-known role in fostering and encouraging steelband activity in the United States. The chapter demonstrates Seeger in action and offers a case study in which the folksinger employs his unique skills as a folklorist, political activist, musician, and steelband consultant. It also illustrates Admiral Gallery in action and highlights the admiral's wit, diplomatic skill, and passion in pursuit of something he thought was for the good of the American public. Both men were products of the time and their intersection aids in further understanding the social environment of the 1950s.
Moshe Rosman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113348
- eISBN:
- 9781800340817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113348.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter explores the methodology of history and the potential for cooperation between the fields of history and folklore by examining the arguments of folklorist Eli Yassif. In so doing, the ...
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This chapter explores the methodology of history and the potential for cooperation between the fields of history and folklore by examining the arguments of folklorist Eli Yassif. In so doing, the chapter raises the question of how the methods of folklore can be used in the historiographical enterprise. The historian's work begins before methodology enters the picture: identifying sources, gathering data or information, formulating questions, and then choosing the appropriate methodology. It continues after methodology has done its work with interpretation in light of the assumptions, questions, knowledge, and methodological analysis that have been proffered. Yassif demands that historians become better folklorists; that does not mean that they need to stop being historians.Less
This chapter explores the methodology of history and the potential for cooperation between the fields of history and folklore by examining the arguments of folklorist Eli Yassif. In so doing, the chapter raises the question of how the methods of folklore can be used in the historiographical enterprise. The historian's work begins before methodology enters the picture: identifying sources, gathering data or information, formulating questions, and then choosing the appropriate methodology. It continues after methodology has done its work with interpretation in light of the assumptions, questions, knowledge, and methodological analysis that have been proffered. Yassif demands that historians become better folklorists; that does not mean that they need to stop being historians.
Shirley Moody-Turner
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038853
- eISBN:
- 9781621039785
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038853.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
Before the innovative and groundbreaking work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, the Hampton ...
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Before the innovative and groundbreaking work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, the Hampton folklorists worked within, but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions, often calling into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. This book brings together these folklorists, along with a disparate group of African American authors and scholars, including Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Anna Julia Cooper, to explore how black authors and folklorists were active participants--rather than passive observers--in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battle ground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import, namely, what role have representations of black folklore played in constructing notions of racial identity that remain entrenched up to and through present day, and how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage with black cultural traditions. This study offers a new context for re-thinking the relationship between African American Literature, African American folklore, race, and the politics of representation.Less
Before the innovative and groundbreaking work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, the Hampton folklorists worked within, but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions, often calling into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. This book brings together these folklorists, along with a disparate group of African American authors and scholars, including Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Anna Julia Cooper, to explore how black authors and folklorists were active participants--rather than passive observers--in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battle ground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import, namely, what role have representations of black folklore played in constructing notions of racial identity that remain entrenched up to and through present day, and how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage with black cultural traditions. This study offers a new context for re-thinking the relationship between African American Literature, African American folklore, race, and the politics of representation.
Julia Riegel
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764739
- eISBN:
- 9781800343306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764739.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter discusses the treatment of the Jewish identity of various composers by the Yiddish folklorist and music critic, Menachem Kipnis. It describes Kipnis as a small, energetic man with a soft ...
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This chapter discusses the treatment of the Jewish identity of various composers by the Yiddish folklorist and music critic, Menachem Kipnis. It describes Kipnis as a small, energetic man with a soft but beautiful singing voice and considered one of the most popular Jewish folklorists of interwar Poland. It also looks into Kipnis' book World-Famous Jewish Musicians, a collection of biographies of nineteenth-century composers with a Jewish background. The chapter examines the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of World-Famous Jewish Musicians compared with Kipnis's other works. It seeks to understand the balance Kipnis struck between praise for Jewish composers and quasi-nationalist emphasis on their Jewishness on the one hand, and his work as a folklorist in Poland, collecting songs from traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jews on the other.Less
This chapter discusses the treatment of the Jewish identity of various composers by the Yiddish folklorist and music critic, Menachem Kipnis. It describes Kipnis as a small, energetic man with a soft but beautiful singing voice and considered one of the most popular Jewish folklorists of interwar Poland. It also looks into Kipnis' book World-Famous Jewish Musicians, a collection of biographies of nineteenth-century composers with a Jewish background. The chapter examines the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of World-Famous Jewish Musicians compared with Kipnis's other works. It seeks to understand the balance Kipnis struck between praise for Jewish composers and quasi-nationalist emphasis on their Jewishness on the one hand, and his work as a folklorist in Poland, collecting songs from traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jews on the other.
M. Heather Carver and Elaine J. Lawless
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732085
- eISBN:
- 9781604733471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732085.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter discusses the work of Elaine Lawless and Heather Carver in identifying the intersections of performance studies and folklore studies as they emerged in the twenty-first century. Elaine ...
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This chapter discusses the work of Elaine Lawless and Heather Carver in identifying the intersections of performance studies and folklore studies as they emerged in the twenty-first century. Elaine and Heather argue that ethnography informs performance through a careful focus on the real stories of women’s lives. Performance informs the ethnographic project by turning the traditional theatrical focus of the actor on stage into a multilayered dialogic performance involving performers, stories, and listeners.Less
This chapter discusses the work of Elaine Lawless and Heather Carver in identifying the intersections of performance studies and folklore studies as they emerged in the twenty-first century. Elaine and Heather argue that ethnography informs performance through a careful focus on the real stories of women’s lives. Performance informs the ethnographic project by turning the traditional theatrical focus of the actor on stage into a multilayered dialogic performance involving performers, stories, and listeners.
Catherine A. Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469626260
- eISBN:
- 9781469628295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469626260.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter places the Federal Writers’ Project’s mission to collect and document African American history and culture within the larger context of the 1930s. National interest in black folk culture ...
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This chapter places the Federal Writers’ Project’s mission to collect and document African American history and culture within the larger context of the 1930s. National interest in black folk culture and the “Negro question” along with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Civil War and competing forms of remembrance through film, Ex-Slave associations, and Old Slave Days, helped fuel debates over black citizenship. By hiring African American writers, such as Sterling Brown as the editor of Negro Affairs, to oversee projects related to black history, the FWP seemed to herald a new era in African Americans’ struggle for authority over cultural representations of black identity. But the increasing commodification of black folk culture through the recording industry, radio, and film, along with folklorists and southern whites’ emphasis on the “old-time Negro,” presented significant challenges to black authority despite invocations of authenticity, the social sciences, and the image of the New Negro.Less
This chapter places the Federal Writers’ Project’s mission to collect and document African American history and culture within the larger context of the 1930s. National interest in black folk culture and the “Negro question” along with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Civil War and competing forms of remembrance through film, Ex-Slave associations, and Old Slave Days, helped fuel debates over black citizenship. By hiring African American writers, such as Sterling Brown as the editor of Negro Affairs, to oversee projects related to black history, the FWP seemed to herald a new era in African Americans’ struggle for authority over cultural representations of black identity. But the increasing commodification of black folk culture through the recording industry, radio, and film, along with folklorists and southern whites’ emphasis on the “old-time Negro,” presented significant challenges to black authority despite invocations of authenticity, the social sciences, and the image of the New Negro.
Catherine A. Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469626260
- eISBN:
- 9781469628295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469626260.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter looks at folk song collector John Lomax, who served as the FWP’s first folklore editor and directed the Ex-Slave Project. A master of self-promotion, Lomax popularized the image of white ...
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This chapter looks at folk song collector John Lomax, who served as the FWP’s first folklore editor and directed the Ex-Slave Project. A master of self-promotion, Lomax popularized the image of white folklorists through his well-publicized relationship with folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (“Leadbelly”) and his autobiography, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. Lomax frequently collected from black convicts in southern prisons. His representations of black folk informants relied heavily on “Negro dialect” and racial stereotypes. Analysis of field notes and correspondence he and his wife Ruby Terrill Lomax kept during their southern recording trips from 1937 to 1940 demonstrates how his interactions with black folk musicians and definition of what constituted “authentic” black folk culture shaped his direction of the Ex-Slave Project, affecting the ways ex-slaves and their narratives would be represented. Lomax was replaced as the FWP’s folklore editor by the appointment of the professional folklorist Benjamin Botkin.Less
This chapter looks at folk song collector John Lomax, who served as the FWP’s first folklore editor and directed the Ex-Slave Project. A master of self-promotion, Lomax popularized the image of white folklorists through his well-publicized relationship with folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (“Leadbelly”) and his autobiography, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. Lomax frequently collected from black convicts in southern prisons. His representations of black folk informants relied heavily on “Negro dialect” and racial stereotypes. Analysis of field notes and correspondence he and his wife Ruby Terrill Lomax kept during their southern recording trips from 1937 to 1940 demonstrates how his interactions with black folk musicians and definition of what constituted “authentic” black folk culture shaped his direction of the Ex-Slave Project, affecting the ways ex-slaves and their narratives would be represented. Lomax was replaced as the FWP’s folklore editor by the appointment of the professional folklorist Benjamin Botkin.
Sadhana Naithani
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496823564
- eISBN:
- 9781496823618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496823564.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter is about the start of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic countries after WWII in 1945. The escape of folklorists, the censorship of folklore archives and the new rules and regulations ...
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This chapter is about the start of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic countries after WWII in 1945. The escape of folklorists, the censorship of folklore archives and the new rules and regulations that were to define the life and scholarship henceforth.Less
This chapter is about the start of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic countries after WWII in 1945. The escape of folklorists, the censorship of folklore archives and the new rules and regulations that were to define the life and scholarship henceforth.
Barry Jean Ancelet
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037962
- eISBN:
- 9781621039518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037962.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter presents reflections on how folklorists can help people and institutions understand the cultural and social implications of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Folklorists must remind everyone ...
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This chapter presents reflections on how folklorists can help people and institutions understand the cultural and social implications of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Folklorists must remind everyone that New Orleans was not alone in the Katrina tragedy. They must also listen to the stories, record them, and try to derive from a collection of them the story of these events in ways that may not otherwise be considered. There are many stories that need to be told and heard so that the world will know what really happened in New Orleans and in south Louisiana.Less
This chapter presents reflections on how folklorists can help people and institutions understand the cultural and social implications of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Folklorists must remind everyone that New Orleans was not alone in the Katrina tragedy. They must also listen to the stories, record them, and try to derive from a collection of them the story of these events in ways that may not otherwise be considered. There are many stories that need to be told and heard so that the world will know what really happened in New Orleans and in south Louisiana.
Sadhana Naithani
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734553
- eISBN:
- 9781621037699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734553.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This chapter discusses the role of folklorists as writers of narrative and poetic texts born out of someone else’s imagination. They invariably mix their own words with those of the oral narrator, ...
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This chapter discusses the role of folklorists as writers of narrative and poetic texts born out of someone else’s imagination. They invariably mix their own words with those of the oral narrator, and create unprecedented texts. Yet, they are not the tellers of these stories, but merely the “collectors” of these texts. The history of folkloristics tells us that the motives of any folklore collector are closely related to the types of folklore collections they compile. The motives of colonial folklore collectors are also important because, out of hundreds of thousands of British residents across the Empire, not more than a hundred actually collected and published folklore of a colony.Less
This chapter discusses the role of folklorists as writers of narrative and poetic texts born out of someone else’s imagination. They invariably mix their own words with those of the oral narrator, and create unprecedented texts. Yet, they are not the tellers of these stories, but merely the “collectors” of these texts. The history of folkloristics tells us that the motives of any folklore collector are closely related to the types of folklore collections they compile. The motives of colonial folklore collectors are also important because, out of hundreds of thousands of British residents across the Empire, not more than a hundred actually collected and published folklore of a colony.
Megan C. Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816671908
- eISBN:
- 9781452947013
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816671908.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter begins by showing how folklore was used to theorize the pre-Hispanic unity of different peoples of the Philippines. At the same time, the nature of folklore’s data—the contemporary ...
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This chapter begins by showing how folklore was used to theorize the pre-Hispanic unity of different peoples of the Philippines. At the same time, the nature of folklore’s data—the contemporary practices of people—lent it to social and political criticism, and so the chapter reads specific sections of folkloric writings for their critical qualities. It argues that the folklore writings of the Philippines followed relatively closely, and even could be considered part of, Spanish folklore, though this could signify a challenge to Spanish authority as much as recognition of it. Finally, the chapter considers the authorial voices of Filipino folklorists, and how they navigated between an intimate relationship with their subjects and the distant and objective voice of the scientist or documentarian.Less
This chapter begins by showing how folklore was used to theorize the pre-Hispanic unity of different peoples of the Philippines. At the same time, the nature of folklore’s data—the contemporary practices of people—lent it to social and political criticism, and so the chapter reads specific sections of folkloric writings for their critical qualities. It argues that the folklore writings of the Philippines followed relatively closely, and even could be considered part of, Spanish folklore, though this could signify a challenge to Spanish authority as much as recognition of it. Finally, the chapter considers the authorial voices of Filipino folklorists, and how they navigated between an intimate relationship with their subjects and the distant and objective voice of the scientist or documentarian.