Word: folkloristics
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...outstanding. But even his performance is overshadowed by those of the two sidekicks Berghof invented for him. The Dancing Zany in entrusted to Geoffrey Holder, a 28-year-old six-and-a-half-foot mine of talent: dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, painter, composer, writer, photographer, book illustrator, and folklorist. This show draws on only the first three of his many gifts. Dressed in a striking white costume with mismatched red and orange gloves and stockings, he does a thousand and one things with skill and vigor. The Singing Zany is played by Russell Oberlin, who cavorts about with lightness. Being...
...listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
...gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about...
...subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist T. S. Painter in his place. The American Association of University Professors censured the administration, and when famed Folklorist J. Frank Dobie went on protesting the Rainey firing, the regents found a way to get rid of him, too. By the time the present president, Logan Wilson, took over in 1953, the university was still suffering from the dispute...
TOGETHER with her husband, Henri Lew-Landowska, who hyphenated his name and identity to hers, and was a folklorist, an amateur musician, "an excellent cook" and her personal court jester, Landowska began collecting manuscripts and examining old harpsichords in all the great museums of Europe. She brought the results of her researches to the Pleyel firm of Paris. In line with her suggestions, they built an instrument, "capable of greater brilliance and more tonal variety -the first modern instrument to give full justice to the 16-foot register, that essential set of strings for a deep resounding bass...