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folk dance folk dance
folk dance primitive, tribal, or ethnic form of the dance , sometimes the survival of some ancient ceremony or festival. The term is used also to include characteristic national dances, country dances, and figure dances in costume to folk tunes. Many children's games, such as "London Bridge" ... Read more
folklore folklore
folklore the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition. It includes folk dances , folk songs , folk medicine (the use of magical charms and herbs), and folktales (myths, rhymes, and proverbs). The study of folklore emerged significantly in the 19th... Read more
Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs
Joseph Jacobs 1854-1916, Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist, b. Australia. He lived in England until 1900, when he went to the United States to edit a revision of The Jewish Encyclopedia. He was later a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and editor of the American... Read more
Cecil James Sharp Cecil James Sharp
Cecil James Sharp 1859-1924, English musician, best known for his researches in English folk music. In 1911 he founded the English Folk Dance Society. In the United States he collected (1914-18) folk songs in the Appalachian Mts., where he found many songs of English origin. His numerous... Read more
folk song folk song
folk song music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. These assume that the germ of a folk melody is produced by an individual and altered in transmission into a group-fashioned expression.... Read more
The Souls of Black Folk The Souls of Black Folk
SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE. Published originally in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's classic collection of thirteen essays and one short story. Assembled from pieces the young Du Bois wrote between 1897 and 1903 (age twenty-nine to thirty-five), the book... Read more
Folk Music Folk Music
F OLKM USIC Folk music entertains, tells or supports a story, and is transmitted from generation to generation. It is the music of the common person as well as the wealthy. A significant number of American ballads were obtained from other societies such as... Read more
Biblia pauperum Biblia pauperum
Biblia pauperum (Latin: ‘poor man's bible’). A type of late medieval picture book for elementary instruction about the Bible, showing in pictures (with short explanatory texts) how the principal events from the life of Christ are prefigured in the Old Testament (see typology); in... Read more
Percy Aldridge Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger , 1882-1961, Australian-American pianist and composer. A friend of Grieg, whose music he often played, he settled (1914) in the United States after establishing an international reputation as a pianist and composer. His interest in folk music is exemplified in his many... Read more
John Avery Lomax John Avery Lomax
John Avery Lomax , 1867-1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax's first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in print such songs as "The Old Chisholm Trail," "Git Along Home Little Dogies," and "Home on the Range." Collecting and recording songs in... Read more

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