Word: folklorists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure you're choosy, and I figure you're boring, but wait: there's more at the door. Saturday night at 8 p.m. Michael Cooney performs traditional American and British folk music at the Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass Ave. Cooney, as much folklorist as musician, should put on an entertaining, varied show, playing everything from banjo and 12-string guitar to kazoo and penny-whistle. Admission...
Baraheni's activism as a member of the oppressed Azerbaijan nationality may have prompted her arrest. She is a dedicated folklorist among a minority group that has been deprived of the use of its language in written form by the government. But, she is also the niece of Reza Baraheni, Iranian poet and former political prisoner, who is now the most outspoken voice of opposition abroad. Since his release from prison in 1974, he has spoken and written about the Shah's repression while residing in the United States. This victimization of innocent members of his family can only...
...clamor for control-or at least a big share-of North Sea reserves was accompanied by a rising sense of cultural pride as, in the words of Scots Folklorist Hamish Henderson, "a civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year...
...group made pilgrimages South, collecting songs, pictures, stories, and "rediscovering" some of the great performers of the 1920's who had been presumed dead for years. It was during these trips that members of the Ramblers found Roscoe Holcomb. Doc Boggs and Eck Robertson. Another urban performer and folklorist. Ralph Rinzler discovered Doc Watson while searching for old-time Tom Ashley...