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35963
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For more than 50 years, Archie Green made North Carolina a special focus for much of the political-cultural work he chose to do in his quest to comprehend the lives of ordinary people, and to gain appropriate recognition for their expressive culture.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p67-69
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35964
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To Bessie Eldreth, music was a cultural and family legacy that tied her to the past and told her who she was. It was also a legacy to which she added liberally, so that her repertoire memorialized her particular passage through eighty years of the twentieth century.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p70-72
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35965
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For over ninety years, Julie Jarrell Lyons shared mountain folkways in the forms of singing, dancing, and telling tales.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p73-75
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35966
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By extending his familial oral narratives to the contemporary revival scent of folktales, Donald Davis made himself a creative artist that moved outside the boundaries of folk traditions. In order to portray the tales that he told, it was necessary to set them in the context of Davis’s family background, personal experiences, and storytelling practices.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p, por, bibl
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35967
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The North Carolina Folklore Society sponsored an annual student contest with the purpose of encouraging student research on state folk life and to recognize significant student projects by publication. There were six winning entries, a graduate first place winner and two honorable mentions, and two undergraduate co-winners and one honorable mention.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p114-117
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35968
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After decades of wanting to be in Rodanthe around the time of Old Christmas, Abrams finally got his chance in 1971. He wanted to see if there was any relationship between his childhood ‘hobby horse’ and the legendary Old Buck.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p118-123
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35969
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While interviewing people about ghostly encounters or stories in Martin County, the author had a string of bad luck in recording the information, which she attributed to the ghost of Bear Grass, who she assumed did not want its story told.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994,
p124-131
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Record #:
35973
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While orality and literacy is not the only dialectic involved in producing changes to oral tradition, the author applied the interdependence of orality and literacy to the transmission of ballads to a family in Madison County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1995,
p1-34, il, bibl
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35974
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Native to the Appalachian Mountains, the ginseng plant has many different uses in herbal medicine. People used to hunt and harvest the plant to sell once it was discovered that there was a large market for it with Asian peoples. Zelotes Peterson, the authors grandfather, was one of these hunters who did it for profit and pleasure.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1995,
p53-61
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35975
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For longtime inhabitants of an area, the landscape itself becomes more than a physical setting for action, becoming impregnated with memories, history, and values. With this in mind, an examination of Eldreth’s ghost stories can yield new insights to the relationship between narrative and place.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1995,
p75-90, il, bibl
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Record #:
35976
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Figures in early mountain literature were heavily stereotyped. Some examples exist, however, of realistic women, especially in more recent times.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1995,
p91-104
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35977
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Oral History, written by Lee Smith, addresses gender issues and various themes concerning the traditional folk roles of men and women in the culture and belief systems of Appalachia.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1995,
p105-112
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35978
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In Oral History, Smith uses Appalachian social structure and outsider/insider conflict to inform her treatment of different male rites of passage undergone by an outsider and a local.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 42 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1995,
p113-122
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Record #:
36032
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Mrs. Grace Cooper was the subject of the author’s interviews due to her great skill with storytelling. Two genres of stories came out of these interviews, narratives describing her life and her account of her journey to heaven when she nearly died during surgery.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1996,
p12-46
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36033
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Raised on hearing ghost stories and superstitions from her grandmother, the author believes the people of the South are haunted, if not from a particular ghost, then by the manifestation of guilt from the atrocities that took place in the past.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1996,
p69-72
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