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LOGGER's SHEET 110 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.