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Roger Abrahams, author
No full textRoger Abrahams, director of the African and Afro-American Research Institute at the University of Texas-Austin and author of Positively Black, argues the case for ethnic diversity in this interview. He also discusses that the idea of "new ethnicity" is not restricted to black or brown America and he sees a widespread return to old mores inherent in the traditional ethnic value system. Interviewed by WTMJ-TV host Jim Peck.GrayscaleSoun
Roger D. Abrahams (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. In this interview, Roger Abrahams, born in June of 1933, speaks of his early life and education. He discusses how he became interested in folklore in college, but did not pursue it until later. He talks about how anthropology became intertwined in his application of folklore . Abrahams discusses the interrelations between folklorists and why they are sometimes misunderstood. He recalls the institutionalization of folklore as well as his own teaching experiences. This collection is part of the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection which is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. It consists of: 32 pages, 2 tapes (1 7/8 ips, 1 hour 30 minutes), index, and Boston Globe article on folklore. This collection is closed until 2015 except to authorized project personnel. The IU Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection deals with the beginning, the building, and the growth of the Indiana University (IU) Folklore Institute into an internationally recognized program. The interviewees are mostly students and/or faculty of the folklore program from the 1940s to the 1980s. They discuss those who most influenced and impacted the institute, namely Stith Thompson and Richard M. Dorson. They share their memories and experiences of the time they spent, or continue to spend, in the IU Folklore Institute
Mody C. Boatright (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This oral history interview with folklorist Mody C. Boatright was conducted by Roger D. Abrahams for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 5, 1969. Mody C. Boatright, folklorist and educator, was born in Mitchell County, Texas, on October 16, 1896 and died in Abilene, Texas, on August 20, 1970. He collected and published stories of cowboys and oil field workers, tall tales and oral histories. Original tape recorded at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 5, 1969; this is a first-generation copy. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips, full track, mono. ; 7 in
Unlucky for Some : 13 poems by Roger McGough
No full textInspired by and featuring the poetry of Roger McGough (by permission of the author), Unlucky for Some is a spare, minimalistic work about homelessness, mental illness and class division performed entirely in slow motion.\ud
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This multimedia work also utilised prerecorded and live feed video and music, and experimented with synchronous and asynchonous live and mediatised performance
Singing the master the emergence of African American culture in the plantation South
No full textIn the American South before the Civil War, a harvest celebration developed surrounding the shucking of the corn each autumn. This event brought together both slave and master, with the slaves encouraged to perform. Thanks to the reports of visitors and foreigners, the corn-shucking ceremony became a representative scene of plantation life. In Singing the Master, Roger Abrahams reconstructs the genesis of the celebration--and offers a controversial and radical interpretation of the occasion. Tracing the origins of the ceremony to the English custom of harvest home, Abrahams shows how the slaves, encouraged to express their African cultural heritage, transformed a chance for performance and self-expression into an opportunity for moral and social commentary--an occasion to mock and ridicule their masters. Abrahams also analyzes the corn-shucking ceremony's fascinating dual cultural legacy--how the African American performance style influenced white culture as it was adapted and imitated by whites in minstrel and vaudeville shows; and also how the bardic role of the performer, the subversive treatment of authority, and interplay with the audience are present in African American performance style today
African American folktales stories from Black traditions in the New World
No full textFrom the cane-fields of the ante-bellum south, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition (Choice). Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
When young men goes courtin' they'll dress up so fine.
No full textDescribes attitude of young men toward courtship and marriage and names the advantages of being a bachelor.Mercer: Peacock, 235; Abrahams & Foss, 12
If you can't answer my questions nine
No full textThe Devil asks a girl difficult questions which she answers correctly, establishing herself as belonging to God and not the Devil.Child, #1; Coffin, D22; Abrahams & Foss, pp. 86-87
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