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[underlined] Logger's sheet [circled] 128 Logger: AndrĂ¡s Goldinger Reel number: 7/9. Stage: AFS Date: 6/30/88 Presentor: Charles Camp Group name: "What Folklore is... and isn't" Region/Style: [underlined]Performer(s) Instrument/occupation Rayna Breen- folklorist, Wash., D.C. Alan Jabbour- folklorist- Wash., D.C. Tony Seeger- ethnomusicologist- Wash., D.C. [underlined] contents 1. C.C.- general intros 2. A.J.- role of American Folklife Center at Library of Congress- definitions, inquiries from the public. 3. C.C,- edges of definitions, practical decisions 4. T.S.- folklore on a word- a lie- a discipline- "folk" ways- not real records enclosed categories- looking out for inhole spectrum, unrepresented cultures in 5. R.G.- in traditional society- more forgiven boundaries- "old ways" people who do these "old things"- see them as recreation, pastimes- folklorist in different ethnic groups- diff. definitions beaded sneakers vs. beaded hide- veiw same groups as dynamic vs. static groups 6. T.S.- folklore- doesn't translate well- can be called sociologist, anthropologist, historian- colonials studying underclass vs. "Marxist sociologist" 7. R.G. "anthropologist viewed by unclear as negative concept historian a better term. 8. A.J.- funding by congress "folklore" light up areas that normally don't get lit up, forward on, mechanism- for pressuring important materials 9. R.G.- deaf culture- Galludet spotlight- artistry of deaf interpretation learning concepts- from culture, not books, for specific community audience question- definition changing as more real world folklorists get involved 10. R.G.- erase of scholarship as non-practicle- folklore- work is for those in the community [circled] over