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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
Wilson, Daniel J. (Fa 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Daniel J. (Fa 1014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1014. Student folk studies project titled: “Weaving.” Project includes survey sheets with a description of the weaving process in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief, traditional practice, or tool, informant’s name, woven swatch, and photo.
Montgomery, Susan H. (Fa 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Montgomery, Susan H. (Fa 1011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1011. Folk studies student project titled: “Molasses Making.” Project includes interviews and survey sheets with brief descriptions of molasses making in Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief or item, informant’s name, and a photo along with jokes and recipes.
Interview With Annalicia Carlson (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Annalicia Carlson (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Annalicia Carlson conducted by Chloe Brown on 17 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Phelps, Billy J. (Fa 1008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Billy J. (Fa 1008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1008.
Carter, Fred (Fa 1010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Fred (Fa 1010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1010. Folk studies student project titled: “Bee-keeping Project,” which includes interviews and survey sheets with brief descriptions of the beekeeping culture in Taylor County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief or item, informant’s name, and a photo of bee culture.
Riddle, Karen (Fa 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Riddle, Karen (Fa 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1009. Folk studies student project titled: “Making of Molasses,” which includes a description of the molasses making process and related material in Clinton County, Kentucky, with interviews, photos and folklore by motif index number.
Interview With Conor Scruton (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Conor Scruton (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Conor Scruton conducted by Chloe Brown on 13 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Schwab, Edmond V., Sr., B. 1948 (Fa 1016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Schwab, Edmond V., Sr., B. 1948 (Fa 1016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1016. A history of the Burnet and Schwab families compiled from old family films which were digitized and saved on DVDs with dubbed commentary. Most of the films centered around vacations and important family events such as birthdays, religious rites of passages, and festivals.
Interview With Rebecca Nimmo (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Rebecca Nimmo (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Rebecca Nimmo conducted by Chloe Brown on 10 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Allison Adams (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Allison Adams (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Allison Adams conducted by Chloe Brown on 7 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Donna Kasznel (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Donna Kasznel (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Donna Kasznel conducted by Chloe Brown on 7 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Sophia Nasato (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Sophia Nasato (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Sophia Nasato conducted by Chloe Brown on 5 April 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Beliefs And Practices Related To Community Water Sources: "The Specialness Of Springs", Anita Kay Westhues
Beliefs And Practices Related To Community Water Sources: "The Specialness Of Springs", Anita Kay Westhues
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The practice of gathering water from community springs in Kentucky constitutes a rich and complex research setting for the study of folklore beliefs and practices. Local knowledge construction, nostalgia as an evaluative process, contested views about purity and impurity, the protection and retention of a “public commons,” and the crisis which ensues when infrastructure maintenance and the delivery of safe drinking water are no longer guaranteed to communities, are all relevant to this vernacular practice. My thesis explores these topics, informed by fieldwork I conducted in nine Kentucky counties, which included formal and informal interviews with individuals who have used …
Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis explores personal experience narratives about making mistakes in the preparation and serving of food. In order to understand when these narratives, referred to in the text as “kitchen nightmares,” are told, to whom, in what form, and why, one-onone and group ethnographic interviews were conducted. In total, 13 interviews were conducted with 25 individuals (men and women) ranging in age from 19 to 70. Six major themes of kitchen nightmare narratives are identified in Chapter One. Chapter Two explores one of these themes, resistance, in the context of the kitchen nightmare stories of heterosexual married women. Chapter Three …
Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore As World Building In Harry Potter, Samantha G. Castleman
Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore As World Building In Harry Potter, Samantha G. Castleman
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The practice of secondary world building, the creation of a fantasy realm with its own unique laws and systems has long been a tradition within the genre of fantasy writing. In many notable cases, such as those publications by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft, folklore exhibited in the world of the reader has been specifically used not only to construct these fantasy realms, but to add depth and believability to their presentation. The universe of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series demonstrates this same practice of folklore-as-world-building, yet her construction does much more than just create a fantasy realm. By using …
The Healing Power Of Music And Chants Amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People, Azadeh Vatanpour
The Healing Power Of Music And Chants Amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People, Azadeh Vatanpour
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis examines current practices of music and prayers in the context of Jam ritual among the Ahl-e Haqq, a vernacular religion group in Iranian Kurdistan. I examine the construction and sacralization of the sacred instrument of the Ahl-e Haqq, tanbūr. I also explore the sacred prayer, kalām, and the association of prayer and music. Through the ethnographic method, participant observations, and interviewing religious figures and master musicians during the fieldwork in Sahneh, Iran, I investigate the relation of the Ahl-e Haqq prayers and music, and their effect on healing during their sacred ritual performance. Drawing primarily on scholarship from …
Family And Friends - Interviews (Fa 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Family And Friends - Interviews (Fa 1007), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folkife Archives Project 1007. Students from Barry Kaufkin’s Introduction to Folk Studies course conducted oral interviews with close family and friends on topics such as childhood, occupation, and values. Digital recordings are stored in the Sound Archives and brief written descriptions of the interviews are included.
Great Thanksgiving Listen (Fa 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Great Thanksgiving Listen (Fa 1006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1006. Students from Barry Kaufkin’s Introduction to Folk Studies course conducted oral interviews with close family and friends during Thanksgiving break on topics such as childhood, occupation, and values. Digital recordings are stored in the Sound Archives, and brief written descriptions of the interviews are included.
Interview With Kristina Arnold (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Kristina Arnold (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Kristina Arnold conducted by Chloe Brown on 26 March 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Interview With Erin Slaughter (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Erin Slaughter (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Erin Slaughter conducted by Chloe Brown on 22 March 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Foodways (Fa 1005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foodways (Fa 1005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text for papers (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archive Project 1005. A collection of student observations about regional foodways in short, narrative papers, prepared for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Photos are included in many of the papers.
Interview With Lena Ziegler (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Lena Ziegler (Fa 1293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of interview with Lena Ziegler conducted by Chloe Brown on 22 March 2017. From project titled “The Women’s March: Community and Material Culture,” which details the experiences of participants in The Women’s March on 21 January 2017 in Washington, D.C. The interviews include details of the march and the political and material culture surrounding it. The audio interviews are archived in the Sound Archives.
Lyle, Beth (Fa 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyle, Beth (Fa 1004), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1004. Paper written by Beth Lyle titled “Class Night: A Lasting Tradition at Allen County-Scottsville High School.” Class night was an annual event held in May in which members of the senior class were formally presented to the community, similar to a debutante or coming out ball.
Hester, Elizabeth Allen "Beth," B. 1956 (Fa 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hester, Elizabeth Allen "Beth," B. 1956 (Fa 1003), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1003. Paper written by ElizaBeth Hester titled, “It Was Just a Good Wholesome Social Time: The Revival of Square Dance in Meador, Kentucky During the 1930s.” This paper was written as part of an assignment for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Boyd, Douglas A., B. 1970 (Fa 1002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd, Douglas A., B. 1970 (Fa 1002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1002. Group interview with several Tyler family members who were physicians in Owensboro and Daviess County, Kentucky, as well as friends and family of the doctors. People share folkways related to medical practice and stories by and about the Tyler family. The copyright for this interview is retained by the interviewer; this copy is for research purposes only.
New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky Ii (Fa 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Matriarchs: Louisville, Kentucky Ii (Fa 1001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Digital audio interviews, transcripts of the same, photographs and digital photo files, and corollary material related to a project conducted by Laura Fleming Ospital titled "New Matriarchs: Louisville II" in 2014-2015. It details the lives of women from Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Mexico,and Uzbekistan. The digital interviews are stored in the WKU Sound Archives and the digital images are stored in The WKU Photo Archives.
Whittington, Greg, B. 1950 (Fa 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whittington, Greg, B. 1950 (Fa 1000), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1000. Project titled: “Traditional Methods Used in Making Replicas of Early Flintlocks and Caplocks.” Includes interviews with brief descriptions of the history and process to build flintlock and caplock rifles in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky. Interviews may include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the rifle or gunsmith tool.
Hooe, Laura (Fa 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hooe, Laura (Fa 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 996. Project titled: “Candy-making and Candy Pulling.” Includes survey sheets with recipes and brief descriptions of methods and superstitions regarding candy-making in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and informant’s name.
Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 994. Project titled: “Folklore in Cookery.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of beliefs, superstitions, proverbs, tales, riddles, songs and recipes of food preservation in Franklin County, Jefferson County, Oldham County, Pulaski County, and Warren County, Kentucky and Missouri. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.
Gamblin, Margaret, B. 1949 (Fa 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gamblin, Margaret, B. 1949 (Fa 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 997. Project titled: “Quilting.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods, terms, and patterns in McCracken County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the quilt.