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16258
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In a modern, innovative hot-air balloon factory in Statesville lies a home for a thriving folk art--handwoven wicker basketry.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1990,
p25-35, bibl, f
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16259
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The initiation of a rookie by other police officers is the first step to becoming an accepted member of the police occupation. However, the initiation custom is only one aspect of the folklore which exists in police departments. Folklore is the unofficial and noninstitutional park of police culture. Textbooks and formal training cannot fully teach officers the various situations the real world will provide. Rookies learn from customs, pranks, legends, and anecdotes an insight into the challenges, problems, and relationships that arise for police officers.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1990,
p36-42, bibl
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16262
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Davidson County is witness to the survival of holiday rituals from a dark Germanic past into the 20th-century involving Easter and Christmas holidays with visits from Belsnickel and the building of the Easter nest.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1990,
p81-87, bibl
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16263
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One of our most consistent activities is the family meal. Around it have developed rituals. For the folklorist, the dinner table offers a special opportunity to investigate the traditional ways by which we offer thanks and the way traditions pass from generation to generation.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1990,
p88-96, bibl
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16264
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Horton explores the quilt patterns included in The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1988,
p3-13, il, f
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16266
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The Badgett Sisters of Caswell County have preserved an important part of the State's cultural heritage. They sing gospel music in the jubilee style as they learned it from their father. They sing for family and friends, church members, festivals and concerts, schools, and even prisons.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p92-94, f
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16267
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Eva Wolfe, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, is one of the most widely known creative basketmakers in the United States.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p95-96
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16294
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After coming to North Carolina in 1924 as a graduate student in sociology, Guy Benton Johnson intended to study social sciences, but under the advisement of Howard Odum, Johnson spent his first year in graduate school compiling and editing manuscripts of black folk song. The result was THE NEGRO AND HIS SONGS in 1925 and later THE NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS and JOHN HENRY: TRACKING DOWN THE NEGRO LEGEND.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p99-100
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16295
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Once upon a time, the NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE JOURNAL was published by a coterie of editors at North Carolina State University. Leonidas Betts manned the editorship with a special touch developed through an intimate knowledge of North Carolina rural life learned as a boy and deepened by his folklore scholarship.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p101-102
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16296
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Over the past two decades Tom Davenport has established himself as one of the most important and successful folklore filmmakers active in America. His finest films are all essentially autobiographies of people and cultures whose stories they tell. This uniquely autobiographical approach is apparent in his North Carolina films.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p103-108, f
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16297
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Oxen, are not generally associated with Southern agriculture. Mules hold that distinction and round out the popular stereotype of the Southern farm, along with cotton, poverty, and tenancy. These stereotypes, popularized since the Civil War in both fiction and scholarly studies, neglect the important role oxen played in the South well into the late 19th-century.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p124-132, bibl
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16298
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The settlements were few and far between in the southern foothills area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. In the early part of the 20th-century, life was hard and the people were poor. In order to cope with hard times, the people helped each other; one way in which they helped was the annual event called corn shucking. Corn shucking brought people together by combining the work of shucking corn with a social gathering.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p138-141
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Record #:
16299
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One of the constructive adaptations to segregation was to set up community cafes, corner stores, and other businesses. Morrison's Cafe was one such business, and show shot these enterprises contributed to the life of a black community. The cafe provided not only cheap, good meals for poor factory workers, but also generated jobs for unemployed blacks. Although urban renewal and integration are considered two causes of the disintegration of distinctly black communities in areas such as Winston-Salem, places like Morrison's Cafe figured prominently for a time in the social and economic life of close-knot communities.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 1, Wntr-Spr 1987,
p11-17
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16300
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Seelhorst discusses the evolution, types, and uses of urban legends related to women.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 1, Wntr-Spr 1987,
p29-37, bibl
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16301
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Linn interviews Mrs. Bertie Dickens, an old time banjo player from North Carolina about her musical style, the folk revival, and her devotion to the old tunes and old ways.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 1, Wntr-Spr 1987,
p61-65
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