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35168
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The Fool Killer started off as a local newspaper editor who collected current stories about particularly foolish deeds done by someone. He became well known; an example is given of one of his famous letters.
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36538
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Green made a large contribution to the study of folklore in North Carolina in the subjects of workers’ lore and lives.
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35261
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A woman, Mrs. A. E. Watts, donated a collection of ballads, one of which is included in the article, titled “Song Ballet Rebel Soldier.”
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16253
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A Singing Stream is the first film in the American Traditional Culture Series to chronicle 20th-century African-American history through the musical traditions of one family. It presents the Landis family of rural Granville County and suggests the cultural resources with which they have faced historical changes.
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35277
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The author briefly notes the acquisition of the song recorded in the rest of the article, “The Wayfaring Stranger.”
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35287
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A brief introduction preludes the tune and lyrics for the ballad “What are Little Babies made of?”
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35888
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Teaching her children how to harmonize and encouraging their musical gifts, Landis contributed to musical life in churches, the black community, and the state of North Carolina.
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35456
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A list of musical recordings that was originally compiled to help educators teach folklore.
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8500
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The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970, and Dorothea and Janette Moser are the first folklorists who come from two generations of the same family to receive the award. Their father, Artus Moser, received the award in 1972. Like their father, the daughters went to college, taught college courses about the Appalachian traditions, and collected, preserved, and performed the material of their Appalachian heritage.
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22766
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Scotch-Irish immigrants brought unique traditions to the Piedmont of North Carolina. Former folklore and American literature professor, Daniel Patterson, examines gravestones from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries as a lens for identifying these customs, while providing a brief history of gravestone carving in the Piedmont.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Fall 2014, p14-15, il
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16488
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Patterson discusses the melodic resources of secular folk tradition and American folk-spiritual movement born of the Shakers in North America.
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57
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Patterson describes the art work found on gravestones.
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Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Fall 1991, p26-31, il
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35747
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This discography of folk songs covers several regions of North Carolina, ethnic traditions, and folklore genres. Part one was included in NC Folklore Journal Volume 19, issue 3.
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4099
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Sheila Adams grew up in Madison County in the small town of Sodom, a community famous for its ballad singers. She is a seventh-generation singer and is passing on the tradition to her daughter. She received a 1998 Brown- Hudson Folklore Award for continuing the state's ballad tradition.