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LOGGER's SHEET
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LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 6  STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/26/1988  PRESENTOR: Jim Lloyd
GROUP NAME: What Folklore Is . . . and Isn't
REGION/STYLE:  
PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Henry Glassie (folklorist - to Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN)
Ray Brassieur (folklorist - St Martinville, Louisiana)
John Vlach (folklorist - George Wash. U., Washington, DC)Ssign language interp - Hank Young
Contents
1. Intro - What do you think of when you hear "folklore"?  to audience
JV - usual way to define - enumeration, several examples.
2. audiences requires of a folklorist a definition
inadequacy of words to describe materials, ideas. 
3. RB - use of word "folklore" not current among THE FOLK of St Martinville.
4. HG - about the word? different words to describe similar concepts.
5. US - folk as THE MARGINAL; Ireland - folk as THE EPITOME.
RB - believed to be something "out of practice"
6. HG - 2 definitions worldwide - 1) The Epitome (what is centrally significant 
7.  in life experience - in impoverished countries, small countries, 2) the marginal (central to minority experience) - large countries
8.  RB - how can you say it is exotica on one hand, central experience on the other
JV - eager to look at a group (for study) which has traits in contrast to main
9. proof that folklore is part of folklore students' lives - 
10.  magic of exam passing.
HG - most of us are not members of communities (he means VILLAGE community)
11.  Audience question - Urban folklore? HG answers.
12.  Aud? - membership of AFS - women & minorities.
13. 12-1,300 - gender balance yes, racial/color balance no.
question of operation and power structure of AFS
HG - traitorous to its class, mostly white men but a definite emphasis on minority cultures.