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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 ]
Albion's Seed argues, "The legacy of four British folkways in early America remains the most powerful determinant of a voluntary society in the United States." The term "folkways" was originally conceived of by William Graham Sumner, a 19th-century American sociologist.
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)
Sounds of North American Frogs is a 1958 album of frog vocalizations narrated by herpetologist Charles M. Bogert. The album includes the calls of 57 species of frogs in 92 separate tracks. The album was released on the Folkways Records label as part of its Science Series. By the 1990s, the album had developed a cult following and was featured ...
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.
Folkways or mores, in sociology, are norms for routine or casual interaction; Folkways Records, a record label founded by Moe Asch of the Smithsonian Institution in 1948 Verve Folkways, an offshoot of Folkways Records formed in 1964; Smithsonian Folkways, the record label of the Smithsonian Institution, which incorporated Folkways Records in 1987
In 2003, Smithsonian Folkways, in conjunction with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, began a project called "Save Our Sounds" that aims at preserving the sounds vital to American history which are deteriorating, such as Thomas Edison's recordings made on wax cylinders and others done on acetate discs in the early 20th ...
Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986) was an American recording engineer and record executive. He founded Asch Records, which then changed its name to Folkways Records when the label transitioned from 78 RPM recordings to LP records. Asch ran the Folkways label from 1948 until his death in 1986.