Volume 37
Spring-Summer
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Cover: Bar Tabac’s Bastille Day in South
Brooklyn, July 18, 2010. Left to right:
Saul Dingfelder, Bernard Decanali,
Xavier Thibaud, Jeannot Ruperti, Bruce
Janovsky, and Yngve Biltsted (referee).
Photo: Valérie Feschet
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FROM THE EDITOR
From the Spring-Summer
2011 issue of Voices:
The Spring–Summer
2011 issue of Voices
brings readers another
tasty mix of story, ethnography,
and analysis
of New York traditions,
upstate and downstate.
We open with SUNY–Oneonta English
professor Jonathan Sadow’s “Bagels and
Genres,” an insightful and witty musing on
what—in critical theory, as in life—makes
a bagel a bagel, from Vegas to Montreal to
New York. In “Petanque in New York,”
Valérie Feschet, an anthropologist at the
Université de Provence, shares a detailed
portrait of the history, the play, and the
multiethnic enthusiasts of this traditional
French bowling game in New York City.
By independent scholar and video artist
Berta Jottar, “From Central Park Rumba
with Love!” documents the sights, sounds,
and struggle of the rumberos of Central Park
to continue to practice their art in public
spaces, despite prohibitions from the mayor’s
office. We travel upstate with old-time fiddler
and music educator Jackie Hobbs, a
member of a multigenerationally musical
family, who describes a tremendous musical
resource for New Yorkers, musicians, and
folk music historians: the wealth of recordings
and biographical materials in the archival
holdings she curates at the North American
Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame and Museum in
Osceola, New York. We wrap up in “A Family
History Quilt,” by Adirondack quilter and
community scholar Ruby L. Marcotte, with
photography by George Ward. Step by step,
Ruby leads us through the experience of
refurbishing a family quilt—and tells about
an uncanny coincidence she uncovered in the
process. Finally, New York Folklore Society
staff folklorist Lisa Overholser reports on
the society’s annual meeting and September
2010 conference on Latino folklore, which
was attended by young Latino folklore and
ethnomusicology scholars from New York
and across the country.
We offer our kudos to Voices columnist
John Thorn, who was recently named official
historian for Major League Baseball.
In this role he will continue and expand
his longstanding research on baseball and
spearhead other special projects for the
league. John’s most recent book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the
Early Game, was published in March; his
other books on baseball include Treasures of
the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Total Baseball
encyclopedia series. John also served as the
senior creative consultant for Ken Burns’s
1994 documentary series, Baseball. Congratulations,
John!
The New York Folklore Society joins with
the New York State folk arts community
in mourning the untimely loss of Mark J.
Wright, artist advocate, theater director,
performer, and program director at the
Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and
Onondaga County. Mark died at his home
on November 12, 2010, at age fifty. On
January 30, dozens of performers, friends,
and colleagues from the Central New York arts community honored Mark and his work
with a four-hour tribute performance, which
raised funds for the Mark J. Wright Scholarship
for Young Artists. Contributions may be
mailed to the Central New York Community
Foundation at 431 East Fayette Street, Suite
100; Syracuse, New York 13202.
Voices thrives on the interplay between its
readers and authors. Please keep your comments
and contributions coming. Whether
online through our web site or by “snail mail,” our suggestion box
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Eileen Condon
Acquisitions Editor
New York Folklore Society
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Spring–Summer 2011, Volume 37:1–2
Acquisitions Editor
Eileen Condon
Managing Editor
Sheryl A. Englund
Design
Mary Beth Malmsheimer
Printer
Eastwood Litho
Editorial Board: Varick Chittenden, Lydia Fish,
José Gomez-Davidson, Hanna Griff-Sleven,
Nancy Groce, Lee Haring, Bruce Jackson,
Christopher Mulé, Libby Tucker, Kay Turner,
Dan Ward, Steve Zeitlin
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