Word: folklorist
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...essential to the New Year as other rituals like the slaughtering of buffalo. "But," she says, "animal sacrifice isn't great for tourism." What's more, the Dai did not always engage in unruly street battles using buckets filled to the icy brim and unforgiving water pistols. Writes Thai folklorist Phya Anuman Rajadhon: "The water-throwing later degenerated into vicious forms." Older villagers remember a time when these exuberant clashes - splashing has gotten so out of hand in Bangkok that it has been banned in certain areas - instead took the form of gentle blessings...
...certainly intellectual interest in the music, but also just a, ‘Wow, you don’t hear this kind of music around Cambridge. You don’t hear people talking about coal mining or tenant farming,’” said Millie Rahn, Folklorist and Archivist at the New England Folk Music Archives. “People really made this emotional and human connection to these people and their stories...
...Folk music is a tradition that is handed on within communities” says Maggie Holtzberg, Folklorist and Manager of the Folk Arts and Heritage Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. “Folk music is still happening and going on. It changes constantly, and it’s very vibrant...
...troops pile mounds of gypsum powder by the hillside hideaways of Spanish rebels. When kicked up by a strong northerly wind, the dust became a severe irritant, smoking the insurgents out of their caves. The use of such special agents "was very tempting," says Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist and author of Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, "especially when you don't consider the enemy fully human...
...50th Anniversary—marked by the return of over 20 artists for a January hootenanny, a March Joan Baez concert, and a concert this Saturday by Mavis Staples, Chris Smither, and Ollabelle—is evidence of this fact. According to Millie Rahn, the Club Passim folklorist, “The Saturday concert is really special because it encapsulates the history of the club.” Staples began singing in the club in the early 1960s with her family band, the Staples Singers. Smither, a Louisiana native, has continued the blues tradition and is a still regular performer...