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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
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
Abrahams (Roger D.) and Szwed (John F.) : After Africa. Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners and Customs in the British West Indies
No full textElisabeth Léo. Abrahams (Roger D.) and Szwed (John F.) : After Africa. Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners and Customs in the British West Indies. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 71, n°264-265, 3e et 4e trimestres 1984. p. 232
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
[Review of] Roger D. Abrahams, ed. Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
Get PDFAbrahams has selected this collection of tales concerning the experiences of African-Americans during and after slavery in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and the American South in an attempt to seriously look at Afro-American folktales (mostly collected by whites) in the New World
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No full textA Nação, « Carnaval : “Mandingas” na verdade são Bijagós », http://www.alfa.cv/anacao_online/index.php/destaque/4119-carnaval-mandingas-na-verdade-sao-bijagos, 2013. Abrahams, Roger D., « Questions of criolian contagion », Journal of American Folklore, 116 (459), 2003, p. 73-87. Abrahams, Roger D. with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed and Robert Farris Thompson, Blues for New Orleans : Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Allen, Anita L. and ..
Interview with former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker
No full textIn an oral history interview, Michigan Supreme Court Justice and author of the novel "Anatomy of a murder", John D. Voelker, talks about growing up in Ishpeming, MI, and his education and work background, including his time as a district attorney. Voelker also discusses being appointed to the Court in 1957, running against Joseph Moynihan, Jr. for a seat that same year, how decisions are made by the justices, famous cases he heard, including People v. Hildabridle and his eventual resignation from the Court. Justice Voelker talks fondly about writing, and the books he wrote under the pseudonym Robert Traver and reads an excerpt from "Laughing whitefish" which includes a description of the Michigan Supreme Court chambers. Voelker is interviewed by Roger F. Lane.See the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society website for more information on the life of John D. Voelker.Image courtesy of the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society.Interviewed by Roger F. Lane in Ishpeming, MI, Oct. 1, 1990.Digital remastering of analog cassettes originally recorded for "Interviews with Michigan Supreme Court Justices," sponsored by the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
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