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Hymns for Deer Folk
Hymns for Deer Folk is a horror novel-in-stories that welcomes you into the mysteries and myths of a small town in central Oregon. Starling has always been rooted in secrets and tales. Its citizens have been raised on stories of wish-granting witches, haunted houses, and angels with antlers. …
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Bantu medical folk-lore
… for investigation and record of the Medical Folk Lore of the Bantu Tribes; which was becoming more and more difficult of attainment as time went on; owing to the fact that the true unsophisticated native was rapidly becoming a thing of the past, or if one may put it so, becoming contaminated …
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Raising the Independent Self: Folk Psychology and Folk Pedagogy in American Early Schooling
… I investigate the double-sided effects of their folk psychology and folk pedagogy, focusing on the discourses of individualized education, independence and autonomy, self-esteem, equality, rights and responsibilities, creativity and expressiveness, and early intervention. I discuss implications …
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The making of folk identity : politics, consumption, tradition, and rebellion in the folk music revival movement
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
<p>This thesis examines contemporary folk music from no earlier than 2006, specifically music of the bands The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. Providing a close reading of select songs, I prove that modern music is seeing a revival in the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist ideals and …
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Cultural identity and Galician folk music
This study is concerned with the roles Galician folk music has played and plays in the promotion of national/cultural identity in the two revivals, the first of which (Rexurdimento) arose towards the end of the nineteenth century and the second (Recuperación) in the mid nineteen-seventies. Events …
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English folk music movement 1898-1914
The folk music movement was an important influence on English cultural life in the years immediately before the First World War. From remote origins in the 1830s and 1840s and small beginnings in the 1880s and 1890s, it suddenly caught the public mood between 1904 and 1914 and for a brief moment it …
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachian Fiction.
… for its colorful storytellers, is also rich in folk medical lore and practice. In their Appalachian novels, Lucy Furman, Emma Bell Miles, Mildred Haun, Catherine Marshall, Harriette Arnow, Lee Smith, and Charles Frazier, feature folk medicine prominently in their narratives. The novels studied, …
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Black Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia.
… majority white population. How regional black folk belief systems compare to those documented in other parts of the country is also examined. Thirty-five blacks selected opportunistically were interviewed with a structural questionnaire. Topics addressed during the interviews included: …
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Examining Loyalty The Folk and The Philosopher
… I examine loyalty from the perspectives of the "folk and the philosopher" where I consider the points of view of philosophers and non-philosophers. Each presents a uniquely valuable perspective. The status of loyalty as a virtue is disputed, especially by philosophers, when it is observed that …
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A folk metal Magyarországon: stílus, szubkultúra, színtér
Záródolgozatom témájául a magyar folk metal zenei műfajként, stílusként, szubkultúraként és színtérként való bemutatását választottam. Egyrészt azért, mert érdekel ez a stílus, másrészt pedig érdekesnek tartottam egy olyan „világot” ismertetni, ahol a hagyományos népzene és a kemény hangzású heavy …
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Performing folk punk : agonistic performances of intersectionality
… goal of this project is to argue that folk punk performances offer spaces where a listening audience is exposed to a radical and intersectional politics, and enable that audience to identify with those views. By considering the performances of Inky Skulls, Pussy Riot!, and Against Me!, …
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Fine art, folk art,and web 2.0
The following text is an interview between me and two members of staff at Writtle School of Design, the artist Michael Szpakowski and the curator and critic Pryle Behrman. In this interview I discuss work I have made over the last five years. I draw links between my early and later work, and …
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Fantasy on the Korean folk song “Arirang”
<p><em>Fantasy on the Korean Folk Song “Arirang”</em> is an original tone poem for orchestra of approximately nine minutes duration. It is based on the Korean folk song, Arirang. Arirang deals with the story of a woman who hopes for the return of her lover. The work divides into two sections, …
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Folk Dance: An Occupation For Building Community
… among the members of a central Appalachian folk-dancing community. The participants were four women, three adults and one teenager, each of whom were long-standing members of the community. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, as the principal …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… no stance-independent moral facts. Research on folk metaethics studies whether ordinary people (i.e., nonphilosophers) endorse realism or antirealism, or speak and think in ways that commit them to one of these views. Some researchers maintain that nearly everyone endorses either realism or …
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Folk Influences of Aaron Copland and Britten
… world expands in conjunction with technology. Folk music has always been a form of national pride and has been used as an exploit for the reasons listed above; therefore composers have maintained an interest in a national sound. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers began to …
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Some aspects of the Bulgarian folk music
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1937. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Global Conversation: A Meeting Between Taiwanese Folk Song and Jazz, on the Model of Nils Landgren’s Swedish Folk Modern
The album Swedish Folk Modern (ACT Music 1998) was a creation by Swedish jazz musician Nils Landgren (trombone) and Esbjörn Svensson (piano). This recording combined selected Swedish folk melodies with jazz improvisation and furthered the richness of the original melodies within a duo setting. The …
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