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Logger's Sheet 153 LOGGER: Andrew Connors REEL NUMBER: 5 STAGE: AFS Centennial DATE: 7 PRESENTOR: Charles Camp GROUP NAME: What Folklore Is ... And Isn't REGION/STYLE: [[2 columned table]] | PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION | | --- | --- | | DEWEY BALFA | CAJUN FIDDLE PLAYER, BASILE, LOUISIANA | | BARRY ANCELET | FOLKLORIST, LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA | | ALAN LOMAX | FOLKLORIST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK | CONTENTS 1. D. BALFA: FOLK FESTIVALS AS OPPORTUNITIES TO DISTINGUISH FOLKLORE AND NOT; HE DIDN'T CONSIDER CAJUN MUSIC FOLK MUSIC 2. B. ANCELET: CAJUN MUSIC WAS JUST THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC; MERCHANDISERS TEND TO SEE MUSICAL TRADITIONS AS THEY WERE, NOT AS THEY ARE → BREAK IN PRESENTATION FOR PROCESSION OF SAINTS 3. A. LOMAX: DESCRIPTION OF RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS THROUGH HISTORY; BRINGS 4. IN B. ANCELET TO DISCUSS MARDI GRAS PARADE AND CHICKEN CHASE OR PRIZE; FOLKLORE HELPS ESTABLISH/MAINTAIN COMMUNAL IDENTITY 5. PUBLIC QUESTION TO D. BALFA ABOUT HOW HE CONSIDERED HIS CULTURE D BALFA: DIDN'T CALL IT CULTURE, CALLED IT A WAY OF LIE; CULTURE HAS TO CHANGE OTHERWISE IT DIES 6. B. ANCELET → A. LOMAX: DESCRIBE "DISCOVERY" OF DEWEY AND HOW HE 7. REPRESENTS THE BEST OF CAJUN LIFE AND THUS HE NEEDS TO BE FEATURED 8. D. BALFA: PLAYS "ONE OF THE FIRST SONGS [HE] YOU PLAYED FOR RALPH RINZLER La valse de Bamboche B. ANCELET: DIGGING AROUND TO FIND GREAT OLD SONGS 9. A. LOMAX: IN 1934 FIRST TRIP W/ HIS FATHER TO FIND CAJUN SONGS; INCLUSION OF CAJUN MUSIC IN NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 10. INTRODUCTION OF D. BALFA AS "FIRST PROFESSOR OF FOLK MUSIC WHO IS ACTUALLY A FOLK MUSICIAN"; A. LOMAX STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF THIS FACT 11. D. BALFA: PLAYS [[strikethrough]] "J.DENT" [[/strikethrough]] [I CRY] J'ai pleuré 12.B. ANCELET: STRESSES THAT BOTH THESE SONGS ARE EQUALLY "FOLK" AND EQUALLY VALID, ONE IS JUST OLDER THAN THE OTHER 13.
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