Daniel J Crowley
Biographic Data
| ID | 78613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J Crowley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Crowley |
| SIGNATURE | CROWLEY D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 134 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 134 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Africa
Africa
The Sacred and The Profane in African and African-Derived Carnivals
In keeping with the announced subject of this session, I have modified my paper to consider how the Sacred might impact on that most Profane of festivals, the utterly secular Carnival of the Christian liturgical calendar which celebrates earthly vitality and defiance of restraint just before the long penitential period of Lent. Carnival has deep roots in the European Middle Ages and even in the Classical Mediterranean, but has now spread to all t…
Carnivals, Carnival, and Carnivalization, or How to Make a Living without Actually Working
A certain critic of mine, who shall be nameless, is quoted as having remarked that Crowley doesn't know Bakhtin (the Russian philosopher and sociolinguist) from Bactine, disinfectant. Following paradigm of man who didn't know shit from Shinola, and whose shoes as a result were quite a mess, it can be said that this address may be theoretically naive, but at least it will be clean, even antiseptic, and perhaps just a bit slick. But before I face u…
Orixás
More about Politics and Folklore in Turkey
Ethiopian Folk Art
The Assam Dragon
attempt to survey folkloristic research in greater Assam, including major institutions, scholars, subjects, and theoretical approaches. But first, let me confess that the somewhat tired play on words in my title, originally the name of a World War II warplane in the Burma Theater of War, justly applies only to my own research predicament (and inability to resist a gag), and not the status of Assamese folklore research. In
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship
Music in Human Life
The Art of the Turkish Tale
Four views of the Brazilian colossus
DaMatta, Roberto. Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma. John Drury, translator. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. xii + 279 pp. including references. $24.95 cloth. Parker, Richard G. Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. xi + 203 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth. von Graeve, Bernard. The Pacaa Nova: Clas…
Calypso Pioneers
Bahamian Narrative as Art and as Communication
The Carnival of Guinea-Bissau
Copenhagen and London, the northernmost one I have yet observed being Akureyri, Iceland, on a fjord facing the Arctic Sea. Private carnival festivities take place in homes, schools, and clubs in virtually every Latin city, both in the Old World and in the New, where the Spanish, Portuguese, and French introduced carnival a half-millennium ago, one of the few aspects of colonialism that was welcomed by the aboriginal peoples. The greatest of all c…
Ethnoart
Art et Mythologie
Mmoetia
Persuasions and Performances
The Arts of Zaire. Volume II
The Epic of Son-Jara, A West African Tradition
Fon Brass Tableaux as Historical Documents
onceived several years ago as part of a project to document objects I had collected earlier in Africa, this paper will attempt to test the historical validity of some eleven brass tableaux made up of individually cast figures in arrangements said to document historical rituals or events. The subject was chosen for this issue honoring the late Robert Plant Armstrong in memory of our never-tobe-forgotten graduate years, 1950-1956, at Northwestern U…
Rastafari-Kunst aus Jamaica
The Practice of Witchcraft in Ghana
The Circumpolar Art Market
In fulfillment of an ill-considered twenty-eight-year-old promise to carry his bride to ends of the earth, your indefatigable correspondent chose to do the northern end first, at least the northern reaches of commercial transportation. This meant Iceland, a side trip to coastal Greenland, the newly independent Faroe Islands (I'd visited the North Cape of Norway in 1969 en route to Ghana), then ten days awaiting Soviet visas in Helsinki, with excu…
Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest
African Oral Literature
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The Traditional Masques of Carnival
(1956). The Traditional Masques of Carnival. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 3-4, pp. 194-223
The Epic of Son-Jara, A West African Tradition
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
The Contemporary-Traditional Art Market in Africa
The Sacred and The Profane in African and African-Derived Carnivals
In keeping with the announced subject of this session, I have modified my paper to consider how the Sacred might impact on that most Profane of festivals, the utterly secular Carnival of the Christian liturgical calendar which celebrates earthly vitality and defiance of restraint just before the long penitential period of Lent. Carnival has deep roots in the European Middle Ages and even in the Classical Mediterranean, but has now spread to all t…
The Celebration of Society
Guy Fawkes Day at Fresh Creek, Andros Island, Bahamas
The Art of the Turkish Tale
The Carnival of Guinea-Bissau
Copenhagen and London, the northernmost one I have yet observed being Akureyri, Iceland, on a fjord facing the Arctic Sea. Private carnival festivities take place in homes, schools, and clubs in virtually every Latin city, both in the Old World and in the New, where the Spanish, Portuguese, and French introduced carnival a half-millennium ago, one of the few aspects of colonialism that was welcomed by the aboriginal peoples. The greatest of all c…
Stylistic Analysis of African Art
In 1946, Frans M. Olbrechts, then-Director of Musee Royal du Belge in Tervuren near Brussels, published a monograph, Plastiek ian Kongo, which William Fagg has called the classical work on Belgian sculpture, and the most systematic work yet produced for any large field of African Originally written as an extended catalogue for an exhibition entitled Arts of Belgian Congo held in Festival Hall of Antwerp in 1937-38, Flemish edition was delayed by …
Toward a Definition of Calypso (Part I)
Problem: popularity of such songs as Day-O and r'amaica Farewell sung in pseudo-West Indian dialect and called requires a fresh investigation into this traditional Trinidadian musical form. recent craze which accounted for one fourth of popular record sales (Time, 1957:55) and wherein one Belafonte album sold nearly a million copies (Cappon, 1957) is not the first to occur in the United States. first calypso recordings were put out by Victor in 1…
The Midnight Robbers
Carnivals, Carnival, and Carnivalization, or How to Make a Living without Actually Working
A certain critic of mine, who shall be nameless, is quoted as having remarked that Crowley doesn't know Bakhtin (the Russian philosopher and sociolinguist) from Bactine, disinfectant. Following paradigm of man who didn't know shit from Shinola, and whose shoes as a result were quite a mess, it can be said that this address may be theoretically naive, but at least it will be clean, even antiseptic, and perhaps just a bit slick. But before I face u…
The Assam Dragon
attempt to survey folkloristic research in greater Assam, including major institutions, scholars, subjects, and theoretical approaches. But first, let me confess that the somewhat tired play on words in my title, originally the name of a World War II warplane in the Burma Theater of War, justly applies only to my own research predicament (and inability to resist a gag), and not the status of Assamese folklore research. In
Calypso Pioneers
The Bahian Market in African-Influenced Art
Napaskiak
Politics and Tribalism in the Katanga
Festivals of the Calendar in St. Lucia
(1955). Festivals of the Calendar in St. Lucia. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 99-121
Form and Style in a Bahamian Folktale
(1954). Form and Style in a Bahamian Folktale. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 218-234
Festivals of the Calendar in St. Lucia
(1955). Festivals of the Calendar in St. Lucia. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 99-121
The Midnight Robbers
The Traditional Masques of Carnival
(1956). The Traditional Masques of Carnival. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 3-4, pp. 194-223
Myth
Song and Dance in St. Lucia
in the Lesser Antilles, 500 miles southeast of Puerto Rico. In the wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries St. Lucia changed hands fourteen times between France and Britain. As a result, although her government has been that of the British Windward Islands since 1803, the 86,000 St. Lucians still speak French Creole patois and are largely Roman Catholics. This population, with the exception of a few hundred whites and a few thousand East…
L'héritage africain dans les Bahamas
La Rose and La Marguerite Societies in St. Lucia
T HE population of St. Lucia for the last 200 years has been divided into two groups, the Roses and the Marguerites. Although both these groups are ostensibly only singing societies dedicated to praising the rose or the marguerite flower (bachelor's button, globe amaranth, gromphrena), they form important segments of the islands's social structure. In 1844, Henry H. Breen reported that although few persons, besides the labouring classes and domes…
Inteligencia do Folclore
The Shak-Shak in the Lesser Antilles
ation; local traditions of Morris and Sword dancing, and other seasonal rites have received fresh impetus, or have been brought to life again by the interest aroused by the Society' s activities; fertilized by native folk airs English music has thrown up vigorous new growth. And this is more than ample fulfillment of Sir Hubert Parry's modest hope, expressed in his Vice-Presidential address at the inaugural meeting of the Folk Song Society in Jun…
Guy Fawkes Day at Fresh Creek, Andros Island, Bahamas
Art
Folk Songs of the Caribbean
Toward a Definition of Calypso (Part II)
Toward a Definition of Calypso (Part I)
Problem: popularity of such songs as Day-O and r'amaica Farewell sung in pseudo-West Indian dialect and called requires a fresh investigation into this traditional Trinidadian musical form. recent craze which accounted for one fourth of popular record sales (Time, 1957:55) and wherein one Belafonte album sold nearly a million copies (Cappon, 1957) is not the first to occur in the United States. first calypso recordings were put out by Victor in 1…
Music from Oil Drums
Folklore Research in the Congo
Daniel J. Crowley, Folklore Research in the Congo, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 74, No. 294, Folklore Research around the World: A North American Point of View (Oct. - Dec., 1961), pp. 457-460
Continuity and Change in African Cultures
Africa, Its People and Their Culture History
Nigerian Folk Tales
The King of the Mountains
The Drum and the Hoe, Life and Lore of the Haitian People
African Oral Literature
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Nigeria
Politics and Tribalism in the Katanga
HE FOURTEEN MILLION inhabitants of the former Belgian Congo are divided into an estimated 183 culturally distinct tribes and sub-tribes including Pygmies, Nilotics, Sudanese, and Bantu.The 144 Bantu-speaking tribes contain most of the population and inhabit at least two-thirds of the land area. Despite this diversity, the languages and cultures of the Congo are relatively homogeneous, and extend north and south of the political boundaries to incl…
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