folklorist
Americannoun
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As a musician and folklorist, Stephen Wade has a personal stake in this music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
This is a point of view that’s echoed in food historian and folklorist Lucy Long’s more academic writing on the subject.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2023
In Appalachia, “it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the grandeur of nature because of the intense saturation of natural landscape,” says renowned folklorist Carl Lindahl of the University of Houston.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 13, 2023
Even legendary folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s 1931 text “Barracoon,” capturing the oral testimony of the long-lived survivor Cudjo Lewis, couldn’t get published until 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
He first worked as a folklorist, traveling around Florida to collect old native tales and songs.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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