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Larry Gorman And The Cante Fable, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

Herbert Halpert's work in collecting and making other collectors conscious of the cante fable in America is well known. In "The Cante Fable in Decay," he suggested two reasons why we have not found more cante fables here. First, folksong collectors have not asked for tales with songs in them. Second, many of the ones we have found are so corrupt as to be unrecognizable. Often, he goes on to say, "the rhyme itself is all of the story that is told while the narrative details are relegated to a purely informative function and may or may not be given-depending …