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The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of over 240,000 [3] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It began in around 1970 as a personal project, listing the source singer (if known), their locality, the date of noting the song, the publisher (book or recorded source), plus other fields, and crucially assigning a number ...
Grider was born in Pampa, Texas, in 1940. She attended Pampa High School, graduating in 1959. [2]Through a Cabot Scholarship she attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a BA in Latin in 1963 and then a MA in history (with a minor in classical civilization.) in 1967.
Hicks owned various lands about the Guadalupe Mine and operated a store there until his death in 1901. He paid for the survey of Hicks Road, which until 1956 ran from Camden Avenue to Alamitos Road. [5] Hicks Road runs along Guadalupe Creek, and Hicks Creek is the first significant tributary of Guadalupe Creek below Guadalupe Reservoir and Dam.
The prize was established in 1991 by the journal The Folklore Historian, in association with the History and Folklore section of the American Folklore Society (which is devoted to historical approaches to the study of folklore and the history of folklore studies), and was originally awarded to the best essay published in The Folklore Historian.
The group helped provide community centers throughout Appalachia, with hopes of allowing individuals to become more educated and view other, newer technologies created by society. Some embraced the new ideals and modernism provided by the community centers, and others annexed them with the thought that government intervention was not needed ...
George Korson (August 8, 1899 – May 23, 1967) was a folklorist, journalist, and historian.He has been cited as a pioneer collector of industrial folklore, and according to Michael Taft of the Library of Congress, "may very well be considered the father of occupational folklore studies in the United States."
Goldstein's father, Kenneth S. Goldstein, was the chairman of the folklore department at the University of Pennsylvania, an influential figure in the folklore field, having worked during the folk revival movement of the 1960s; the dissemination of his text, A Guide for Fieldworkers in Folklore, which was published in 1964 [1] is considered a standard in the profession.
In 1956 he was among the three founders of the Louisiana Folklore Society, [9] through which he issued his recordings of folk music from Louisiana, although the society did not fund them. [10] [11] The early material included Cajun music from Mamou. [12] Louisiana Folksong Jambalaya is a collection of folk songs sung by himself. [13]