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Logger's Sheet           
Logger: Skye Morrison           89
Reel Number: 2     Stage: AFS.
Date: 6/24/1988.   Presentor: Tim Lloyd.
Group name: "Afro-American Folklore" 
Region/style: [[line left blank]]
Performer(s)        Instrument/Occupation
- Bernice Reagon:   (cultural historian, Washington D.C.)
-Worth Long:        (folklorist, Atlanta Georgia). 
-Lonnie Pitchford: (musician, instrument maker, Lexington Mississippi)
- Elizabeth Fleming: (basketmaker, Charleston, South Carolina).  
-Tim Lloyd:          (folklorist, Columbus, Ohio) 
Joyce Dworsky: sign language interpreter. 
Contents
1. Introduction TL.
BR: History - (personal) of involvement with folklore through 
2. Civil Rights movement and other education - Freedom singer. 
3. Naming and labeling of songs and who does this. The Albany Movement: working within a community. 
4. Domination of Afro-American Studies by nonblacks.
TL: What about black scholars studying non-black material
5. WL: The political nature of this question
wants to address issues of empowerment of people in a culture. 
6. working from inside the community outside through 
7. participatory research.  Example of South Carolina and sweet grass basket preservation. 
8. E.F. Basketmaking in Mount Pleasant S.C. - Naming of "Gulla" baskets as an African connections.
9. Tells story of her basketmaking traditions and passes materials around to the audience
10. Tells of the reasons for sweetgrass shortage 
11. WL: opens floor to questions and introduces Lonnie Pitchford. Audience: Asks E.F. about Gulla speakers. 
12. E.F. Talks of old people speaking Gulla and answers specific questions about politics behind sweetgrass shortage
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WL: Reintroduces Lonnie Pitchford: and asks him about playing a string instrument
LP: Tells story of how he became involved with playing one string instrument: and compares too "Diddly-Bo" an instrument which uses the wall as a resonator - (He demonstrates first solo then with a voice) "My Babe Cant Stand no Cheatin."  
TL: Concluding remarks.