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37011
Author(s):
Rosenberg, Jacob
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Melzer is the director of a Thursday night comedy show, Stranger Danger, and the Associate Artistic Director of Dirty South Improv Comedy. Her work serves a comedy purpose, but she is driven by folkloric views.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016, p26-29 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Comedians; Comedy clubs--Raleigh
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Record #:
36976
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Abstract:
Lau is a folklorist who studied African American shape note singing and helped found the Pauli Murray Project, an organization created to combat social inequalities and injustice.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016, p22-25 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Folklore; Folklorists; Civil rights movement--Activists
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Record #:
36514
Author(s):
Peterson, Sally
Abstract:
Lau is a scholar, ethnographer, administrator, advocate, activist, and artist. Her competence at festival coordination reached far beyond the complex skills required for production: she touched the lives of participants through her empathy, observation, and communication.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2007, p22-25 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Brown-Hudson Folklore Award; Folklorists
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Record #:
1590
Author(s):
Sanders, Lynn Moss
Abstract:
Beverly Patterson has served as a folklife specialist in the Folklife Office of the North Carolina Arts Council. Her dissertation, \"The Sound of the Dove,\" will include extensive field research she conducted in NC communities in the area of folk music.
Source:
Newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society (NoCar GR 110 N8 N59x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, July 1994, p3-4, il, por
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Folk music; Patterson, Beverly Bush, 1939-
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Record #:
2948
Author(s):
Sharpe, Bill
Abstract:
Many influences, among them her father's love of preaching and singing, her church choir director, her college studies, and her love of the Appalachian culture, developed Mary Cleo Greene as a folklorist and traditional musician.
Source:
Newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society (NoCar GR 110 N8 N59x), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1996, p5-6, por
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Greene, Mary Cleo
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Record #:
36325
Author(s):
Yarger, Lisa; Lau, Barbara
Abstract:
Ms. Peterson has gained the Brown Hudson Award for her contribution to folkloric exhibitions.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Mid-Winter 2000, p183-185 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Brown-Hudson Folklore Award; Folklorists--Women
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Record #:
37022
Author(s):
van Buren, Zoe
Abstract:
Peterson is the director of the NCAC’s Folklife Program, overseeing grant programs, folklife projects, and traditional arts programming across the state.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016, p30-33 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women; Folklorists; Folk life; Folklife
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Record #:
36969
Author(s):
Keneda, Anna
Abstract:
Enjoying folklore from a young age, Bryan pushes the limits of the traditional understandings of folklore.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016, p4-7 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folklorists--Women
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