New York Folklore Society Newsletter

Christmas visit. St. John’s Cemetery, Queens. Photograph by Ilana Harlow, the Queens folklorist. Read her story in the New York Folklore Society Newsletter.

NOTE: The New York Folklore Society Newsletter and New York Folklore Journal were replaced by Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore which debuted December, 2000.

New York Folklore Society
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Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
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nyfs@nyfolklore.org

Winter/Spring 1998

Meet the NYFS BOARD: David Quinn I’m not a folklorist. I’m a lawyer. There just weren’t enough jokes about folklorists to keep me satisfied . . .
The Queens Folklorist: Reflections on a Folk Arts Program Ilana Harlow As a child I was attracted to traditional music, stories, and cultural events. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania I discovered that folklore was an academic discipline and took a couple of courses in it. Although the subject matter appealed to me, I decided against getting a degree in folklore since I wondered, "What will I ever do with it?" . . .
A Mile in Claire’s Shoes Steve Zeitlin Born in 1926, Claire Tankel is a radiant old firebrand, and her passion flies in the face of her delicate features and slight build. . . .
Winter/Spring 1998

NYFS and the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College announce the publication of Island Sounds in the Global City: Carribean Popular Music and Identity in New York, a collection of case studies by top scholars that chronicle the richness of musical activity within the Puerto Rican, Dominican, Trinidadian, and Haitian communities of New York City. Presented at the Institute’s April 1995 symposium, the essays focus on a subject that remains surprisingly unexplored in scholarship—the process of exchange between traditional Caribbean styles and influential American forms such as jazz and popular music and the relationship between Caribbean popular music and cultural identity. To order your copy, please contact the distributor, University of Illinois Press.

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