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THE TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY: PRESERVING AND PRESENTING FOLKLORE FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
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- Author(s): Untiedt, Ken1
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East Texas Historical Journal. 2009, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p44-51. 8p.
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The article offers information about the Texas Folklore Society (TFS), which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. TFS has published over 14,000 pages of folklore material in 65 regular publications and has assisted in the publication of another 36 publications including pamphlets on collecting African American songs to full-length books on cowboy life, and the lore of Native Americans. The TFS has 66 charter members, and the annual meeting is popular among scholars throughout in Texas. The article explores the TFS's origin, noting that it began in 1907 when Texas citizen and Harvard University student John Avery Lomax shared his collection of cowboy songs with his professor George Lyman Kittredge who encouraged him to form a folklore and folk music society.
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