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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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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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35904
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Important contributions of African banjo tradition influenced Southern music in the genre of lively lyric and rhythmically complex, banjo songs and in the old-time string band tradition—an ensemble that honors democratic interaction and the synthesis between the Celtic-American fiddle and the African American banjo traditions.
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Record #:
35905
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Folk ballads have been a significant influence on British literary poetry. Thomas Hardy, a prolific literary balladist, was influenced by contemporary literary movements, but he also incorporated into his art qualities remembered from folk music and song encountered in his youth.