folklorist
Americannoun
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Mr. Wade the folklorist provides thumbnail biographies for each of his subjects, several informed by in-person interviews, while Mr. Wade the musician breaks down the idiosyncrasies and innovations of their techniques and lyrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The eminent folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand traced them at least as far back as the 1970s, when immigrants from Southeast Asia reached these shores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
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
Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic story possible, and therefore included not only his own anti-Klan activities but those of another man, code-named John Brown.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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