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Marguerite Hicks: Thelma Gray James (1899–1988) was a folklorist and lecturer. ... James served as President of the Michigan Folklore Society between 1949 and 1950 ...
The American Folklore Society (AFS) is the United States (US)-based professional association for folklorists, with members from the US, Canada, and around the world, which aims to encourage research, aid in disseminating that research, promote the responsible application of that research, publish various forms of publications, advocate for the continued study and teaching of folklore, etc. [1 ...
Newell founded the American Folklore Society in 1888 where he edited the Journal of American Folklore. [3] His best known work is Games and Songs of American Children (1883, Mineola, N. Y.). The songs included tunes with the lyrics, and this book is the first collection of the folk music of American children.
The Center’s work consisted of multidisciplinary projects spanning rural sociology, vernacular architecture, cultural geography, historic preservation, archaeology, and folklore. Center staff also actively documented Missouri’s traditional arts and maintained a working archive of fieldwork materials.
She served as president of the American Folklore Society,1993–94. [1] Early life and education. Grider was born in Pampa, Texas, in 1940.
Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York.In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed unorthodox by many which led to lasting controversy, and caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends (the first caused by George Keith in 1691). [1]
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Southern Folklore Quarterly (1963) [19] Ellen Stekert, "Four Pennsylvania Songs Learned Before 1900, From the Repertoire of Ezra V. Barhight" in Two Penny Ballads and Four Dollar Whiskey: A Pennsylvania Folklore Miscellany, ed. Robert H. Byington and Kenneth S. Goldstein (1966) [20] Ellen J. Stekert, "Foreword: The Urban Experience and Folk ...