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New York Folklore Society
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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. XXI, Nos. 1-4, 1995
Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary Fall Conference

CONTENTS

PUBLICATIONS | VOICES | BACK  ISSUES | FOLKLORE  IN ARCHIVES | FOLK  ARTISTS  SELF-MGT | ORDER PUBLICATIONS | SEARCH

Editor’s Foreword

v

Director’s Foreword
 vii

Keynote Addresses
Taking a Breath		 Bess Lomax Hawes 1

"It Ought to Be Returned to Them....It Needed to Be Spread Around": Reflections on Public Folklore Then and Now		 Robert Baron 13

Panel
Who Inherits the Tradition?

Robert Bethke, Colleen Cleveland, Nina Jaffe, Tom Porter, Vaughn Ward		 39

Folklore in Theory
"A Yorker by Choice, A Folklorist by Persuasion": B. A. Botkin, Public (Folklore) Intellectual		 Jerrold Hirsch 75

Making Folklife Theory Public
Debora Kodish		 103

History and Regionalism in the Work of John Mason Brewer		 John W. Roberts 113

Folklore in Action
Research and Restore: Two Goals, One Society		 Bruce Buckley 127

Folklore in New York State: The NYSCA Era
Karen Taussig-Lux and Jessica M. Payne		 137

Photograph Album
Photos by Nicole Keys		 151

Voices of Tradition
Elsie Edith Cutting		 Joyce Ice 155

Interview with Edith Cutting		 Melissa Ladenheim 161

Book Reviews
Beck, ed., Vermont Recollections: Sifting Memories Through the Interview Process; Ives, The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History
Diane Tye
193

Greenhill, Ethnicity in the Mainstream: Three Studies of English Canadian Culture in Ontario		 Peter Narváez 195

Wright, Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Bluegrass Music		 Jack Shortlidge 197


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