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She was elected President of the American Folklore Society in 1949 and also elected as a Fellow of the Society in 1961. James did not publish many articles based on urban folklore. A paper of hers, "European Folklore Found in A Modern City", was read in her absence at the Western Folklore Conference in 1945.
An early example of a faxlore warning about tattoo stickers allegedly laced with drugs, an urban legend collected by Jan Brunvand in his book The Choking Doberman. Faxlore is a sort of folklore: humorous texts, folk poetry, folk art, and urban legends that are circulated, not by word of mouth, but by fax machine.
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Not everyone is a fan of Taylor Swift’s Folklore merchandise — but she’s quickly making the necessary changes! On Saturday, July 25, founder of The Folklore — an online agency selling ...
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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.
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.
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 ...