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From NEW YORK FOLKLORE (Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4):
"A folksong revival occurred in American twenty-five years ago. Like many revivals, it appealed primarily to individuals who celebrated traditions not their own. Blues were popular in the folksong revival, but the audiences were mostly whites; rural songs and performers were popular, but the audiences were mostly urban; labor songs were popular, but the audiences were mostly middle-class students..."
— (from "The Folksong Revival" by Bruce Jackson in the special 40th Anniversary New York Folklore issue (Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4, 1985).
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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4, 1985
40th Anniversary Issue

CONTENTS

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Reflections on Forty Years
Editor’s Introduction		 1

Early Days of the Folklore Renaissance in New York State		 Louis C. Jones 25

Our Native Notions of Story
Roger D. Abrahams		 37
Sex and Grammar Jokes Jan Harold Brunvand 49

Performance Contexts in Historical Perspective		 David Buchan 61

Soldiers’ Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless		 Les Cleveland 79

"When I Was Six We Moved West:" The Theory of Personal Experience Narrative
Linda Degh		 99

Catherine of Siena: Life, Death, and Miracles		 Alessandro Falassi 109
Folklorists as Agents of Nationalism James W. Fernandez 135

The Image of Gypsies in Hungarian Oral Literature		 Veronika Görög-Karady 149

Remarkable Sight and Hearing in the Lying Contest Tale		 Herbert Halpert 161

Reason, Rhetoric, and Religion: Academic Ideology versus Folk Belief		 David J. Hufford 177

The Folksong Revival		 Bruce Jackson 195

Masking in England		 Venetia Newall 205
Rehearsing the Future in the Folktale W. F. H. Nicolaisen 231

Contributors to this Issue
 
239

Officers of the New York Folklore Society, 1945-1985		   241

Editor’s Year-End Report		   243


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