Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kuumba Singers: the all-black chorus dedicated to performing every sort of black music from spirituals to African folk songs to modern songs...
...painlessly introduced literally thousands of hard-to-impress gut-seekers and science concentrators to Homer's muse and the other folk tales studied in the course. Many of them seem
...Boston's Italian-American community invites anyone to watch and even take part in their religious festivals, some of which are being held over the next two weeks (see folk listings...
Also under construction is an ambitious cultural center that will contain a 10,000-volume library, a concert hall for 1,200, two 250-seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...
...Murray, who sought to dispel folklore that witches were invariably malevolent. But today's neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as, say, bank tellers or bartenders, others gather in communes. Psychologists say that neopaganism functions as a form of "folk therapy," a sort of ritualized search for self-worth in an increasingly complex society...