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[underlined] Logger's sheet
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Logger: András 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 
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