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  2. American Folkways series - Wikipedia

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    The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955. [1] Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region. [ 2 ]

  3. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    [1] Native American cultures are numerous and diverse. Though some neighboring cultures hold similar beliefs, others can be quite different from one another. The most common myths are the creation myths, which tell a story to explain how the earth was formed and where humans and other beings came from. Others may include explanations about the ...

  4. John Greenway (folklorist) - Wikipedia

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    1955: American Industrial Folksongs, Riverside Records 12-607; 1956: The Great American Bum: Hobo And Migratory Workers' Songs, Riverside Records (RLP 12-619) 1958: Talking Blues, Folkways Records; 1960: Australian Folksongs And Ballads, Folkways Records (FW 8718) 1961: The Cat Came Back And Other Fun Songs, Prestige International (13011)

  5. American Folk Songs for Children - Wikipedia

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    Seeger selected the eleven songs for the album from an anthology of folk songs for children that had been published by his stepmother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, in her 1948 book titled American Folk Songs For Children, ISBN 0-385-15788-6, a book of musical notations and notated guides.

  6. Albion's Seed - Wikipedia

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    Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain to the United States.

  7. Category:American folk culture - Wikipedia

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    [1 ^ Riedl, Norbert F. last; Ball, Donald B.; Cavender, Anthony P. (1976). A Survey of Traditional Architecture and Related Material Folk Culture Patterns in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee .

  8. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    A companion to the American South. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-21319-8. Botkin, B. A. A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South (1949) Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South (1941) Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity (2005)

  9. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage (CFCH) is one of three cultural centers within the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. [1] Its motto is "culture of, by, and for the people", and it aims to encourage understanding and cultural sustainability through research, education, and community engagement. The CFCH contains ...