Ronald L Baker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3789778 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronald L Baker |
| NOMBRES | Ronald L |
| APELLIDO | Baker |
| FIRMA | BAKER R L |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Practically Joking
Roger E. Mitchell (1925–2011)
Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007)
Other| April 01 2008 Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007) Ronald L. Baker Ronald L. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2008) 121 (480): 219–220. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald L. Baker; Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2008; 121 (480): 219–220. doi: https…
In Memoriam
William McNeil?Bill to his friends, W. K. to his professional audience, and Dr. James Withers to readers of his re? search notes for the privately printed Eat Beans, They Make You Astute (1988)?was born near Canton, North Carolina, on 13 August 1940. As a child he developed a lifelong love of reading, and in his teens he found plenty of time to pursue this passion while bedridden with rheumatic fever for more than a year. During that period of re…
Miracle Magazine in the Sixties
This article examines typical narratives of healings and blessings that appeared in Miracle Magazine during the 1960s under evangelist editor A. A. Allen to show how mass media preachers exploit folk beliefs. The testimonies in Miracle Magazine included, among other miracles, accounts of exorcizing bosom serpents, miracle fillings, supernatural healings of invalids, divine cures of cancer, and blessings receivedforpledging money to Allen's minist…
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
Sense of Place in Place Name Studies
References [Buckingham, Robert G., et al.]. [1968]. History of Old Settlers Reunion and the Community of Bowling GreeniIndiana. N.p. Dorson, Richard M. 1981. Land of the Millrats. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Lippard, Lucy R. 1997. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: New Press. Mordoh, Alice Morrison. 1986. “Portrait of a Lost Community: A Folklife Study of the Salt Creek Valley of South Central Indiana…
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
Tradition and The Individual Talent in Folklore and Literature
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Woody Allen In the section of Plato's Phaedrus (274 B, C) dealing with the superiority of the spoken word and the invention of writing, Socrates asks Phaedrus if he knows how to best please God, in practice and in theory, in this matter of words, and Phaedrus acknowledges that indeed he doesn't and inquires if Socrates knows how to do so. Socrates tells his old friend that I can tell you a tradition that …
Film Review Essay
Jokelore
TALL TALES CATCH TALES AND HOAXES SHAGGY DOGS ANIMALS MARRIED COUPLES DRUNKS AND SLOTHS THE WISE THE FOOLISH IGNORANCE OF SEX KENTUCKIANS IRISH BLACKS POLES JEWS CATHOLICS PREACHERS GOD AND JESUS SALESMEN AND OTHER TRAVELERS DOCTORS, NURSES, AND PATIENTS SCHOOLTEACHERS FARMERS POLITICIANS GOLFERS Sources and Notes
Lady Lil and Pisspot Pete
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FOLK POEMS in the United States Lady Lil. Its central motif in Frank Hoffmann's Analytical Survey ofAnglo-American Traditional Erotica (1973) X735.9.2.2, Lie: Celebrated whore who claims to be able to take on any man meets her match. In The Horn Book, G. Legman says that this erotic narrative poem is now being collected as hardly more than a four-line toast or epitaph (1964:417), but Lady Lil still can be collected in fair…
Folklore and Folklife Studies in American and Canadian Colleges and Universities
The study offolklore andfolklife continues to grow in North American colleges and universities. At least 509 American and 19 Canadian institutions offer folklore courses, generally in English departments, with introductory folklore being the most popular course. Though the degree in folklore is not common, programs offering degrees in related disciplines with concentrations or minors in folklore are steadily increasing. Most academicfolklorists d…
Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs
Hawked by vendors in the streets of Denmark or sold door-to-door by salesmen, popular street ballads reported disasters at sea, lamented the anguish of separated lovers, and told of the promise of a new land, America.Authors Rochelle Wright and Robert L. Wright have collected 116 street ballads and songs from oral tradition (a majority of which have never been published before) that pertain to the Danish emigration experience: conditions and even…
Hoosier Folk Legends
Readings in American Folklore
The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Preface: These articles were chosen to illustrate a variety of approaches and folklore genres; they are rich in actual examples of folk materials and are above all well written and thought-provoking. Many ar…
Michigan Place Names
The Study of Folklore in American Colleges and Universities
FIVE PREVIOUS NATIONAL SURVEYS of folklore studies in American colleges and universities have been made since 1940.1 The 1940 survey found only twentythree American colleges and universities with folklore courses. Since then, however, folklore has edged its way into nearly one-fourth of the four-year institutions of higher learning in the United States. After the last national survey, conducted in 1969 and published in 1971, unprecedented statewi…
Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Indiana Place Names
English Field Names
Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Defoe's "Blow-Bladder Street" in A Journal of the Plague Year
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The Academic Future of Folklore
Richard M. Dorson, Ronald L. Baker, Robert H. Byington, George Carey, Robert A. Georges, Thomas A. Green, Ellen J. Stekert, Robert T. Teske, The Academic Future of Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 85, Supplement: Annual Report of the American Folklore Society (May, 1972), pp. 104-125
Readings in American Folklore
The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Preface: These articles were chosen to illustrate a variety of approaches and folklore genres; they are rich in actual examples of folk materials and are above all well written and thought-provoking. Many ar…
Tradition and The Individual Talent in Folklore and Literature
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Woody Allen In the section of Plato's Phaedrus (274 B, C) dealing with the superiority of the spoken word and the invention of writing, Socrates asks Phaedrus if he knows how to best please God, in practice and in theory, in this matter of words, and Phaedrus acknowledges that indeed he doesn't and inquires if Socrates knows how to do so. Socrates tells his old friend that I can tell you a tradition that …
Folklore and Folklife Studies in American and Canadian Colleges and Universities
The study offolklore andfolklife continues to grow in North American colleges and universities. At least 509 American and 19 Canadian institutions offer folklore courses, generally in English departments, with introductory folklore being the most popular course. Though the degree in folklore is not common, programs offering degrees in related disciplines with concentrations or minors in folklore are steadily increasing. Most academicfolklorists d…
Hoosier Folk Legends
The Role of Folk Legends in Place-Name Research
IN SPITE OF THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS between two relatively new disciplines of folkloristics and onomastics, folklorists as well as onomatologists have generally overlooked contributions can make to place-name research. The main reason has been neglected in place-name scholarship is that place-name studies have so far been largely exercises in lexicography. That is, place-name scholar has been mainly interested in spelling, pronunciation, origin, …
Film Review Essay
Jokelore
TALL TALES CATCH TALES AND HOAXES SHAGGY DOGS ANIMALS MARRIED COUPLES DRUNKS AND SLOTHS THE WISE THE FOOLISH IGNORANCE OF SEX KENTUCKIANS IRISH BLACKS POLES JEWS CATHOLICS PREACHERS GOD AND JESUS SALESMEN AND OTHER TRAVELERS DOCTORS, NURSES, AND PATIENTS SCHOOLTEACHERS FARMERS POLITICIANS GOLFERS Sources and Notes
Folklore Courses and Programs in American Colleges and Universities
IN THE FALL OF 1968, when I proposed a second course in folklore at Indiana State University, Dr. George E. Smock, chairman of the Department of English, suggested that I take a brief survey of folklore courses in other English departments to find out what courses generally follow an introductory course. After I began looking through catalogs of universities similar in size and purpose to Indiana State, Richard M. Dorson, then President of the Am…
Folklore Courses and Programs in American Colleges and Universities
IN THE FALL OF 1968, when I proposed a second course in folklore at Indiana State University, Dr. George E. Smock, chairman of the Department of English, suggested that I take a brief survey of folklore courses in other English departments to find out what courses generally follow an introductory course. After I began looking through catalogs of universities similar in size and purpose to Indiana State, Richard M. Dorson, then President of the Am…
Monsterville
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
The Academic Future of Folklore
Richard M. Dorson, Ronald L. Baker, Robert H. Byington, George Carey, Robert A. Georges, Thomas A. Green, Ellen J. Stekert, Robert T. Teske, The Academic Future of Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 85, Supplement: Annual Report of the American Folklore Society (May, 1972), pp. 104-125
The Role of Folk Legends in Place-Name Research
IN SPITE OF THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS between two relatively new disciplines of folkloristics and onomastics, folklorists as well as onomatologists have generally overlooked contributions can make to place-name research. The main reason has been neglected in place-name scholarship is that place-name studies have so far been largely exercises in lexicography. That is, place-name scholar has been mainly interested in spelling, pronunciation, origin, …
Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Defoe's "Blow-Bladder Street" in A Journal of the Plague Year
English Field Names
Indiana Place Names
The Study of Folklore in American Colleges and Universities
FIVE PREVIOUS NATIONAL SURVEYS of folklore studies in American colleges and universities have been made since 1940.1 The 1940 survey found only twentythree American colleges and universities with folklore courses. Since then, however, folklore has edged its way into nearly one-fourth of the four-year institutions of higher learning in the United States. After the last national survey, conducted in 1969 and published in 1971, unprecedented statewi…
Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson
Michigan Place Names
Readings in American Folklore
The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Preface: These articles were chosen to illustrate a variety of approaches and folklore genres; they are rich in actual examples of folk materials and are above all well written and thought-provoking. Many ar…
Hoosier Folk Legends
Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs
Hawked by vendors in the streets of Denmark or sold door-to-door by salesmen, popular street ballads reported disasters at sea, lamented the anguish of separated lovers, and told of the promise of a new land, America.Authors Rochelle Wright and Robert L. Wright have collected 116 street ballads and songs from oral tradition (a majority of which have never been published before) that pertain to the Danish emigration experience: conditions and even…
Folklore and Folklife Studies in American and Canadian Colleges and Universities
The study offolklore andfolklife continues to grow in North American colleges and universities. At least 509 American and 19 Canadian institutions offer folklore courses, generally in English departments, with introductory folklore being the most popular course. Though the degree in folklore is not common, programs offering degrees in related disciplines with concentrations or minors in folklore are steadily increasing. Most academicfolklorists d…
Lady Lil and Pisspot Pete
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FOLK POEMS in the United States Lady Lil. Its central motif in Frank Hoffmann's Analytical Survey ofAnglo-American Traditional Erotica (1973) X735.9.2.2, Lie: Celebrated whore who claims to be able to take on any man meets her match. In The Horn Book, G. Legman says that this erotic narrative poem is now being collected as hardly more than a four-line toast or epitaph (1964:417), but Lady Lil still can be collected in fair…
Jokelore
TALL TALES CATCH TALES AND HOAXES SHAGGY DOGS ANIMALS MARRIED COUPLES DRUNKS AND SLOTHS THE WISE THE FOOLISH IGNORANCE OF SEX KENTUCKIANS IRISH BLACKS POLES JEWS CATHOLICS PREACHERS GOD AND JESUS SALESMEN AND OTHER TRAVELERS DOCTORS, NURSES, AND PATIENTS SCHOOLTEACHERS FARMERS POLITICIANS GOLFERS Sources and Notes
Film Review Essay
Tradition and The Individual Talent in Folklore and Literature
Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Woody Allen In the section of Plato's Phaedrus (274 B, C) dealing with the superiority of the spoken word and the invention of writing, Socrates asks Phaedrus if he knows how to best please God, in practice and in theory, in this matter of words, and Phaedrus acknowledges that indeed he doesn't and inquires if Socrates knows how to do so. Socrates tells his old friend that I can tell you a tradition that …
Sense of Place in Place Name Studies
References [Buckingham, Robert G., et al.]. [1968]. History of Old Settlers Reunion and the Community of Bowling GreeniIndiana. N.p. Dorson, Richard M. 1981. Land of the Millrats. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Lippard, Lucy R. 1997. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: New Press. Mordoh, Alice Morrison. 1986. “Portrait of a Lost Community: A Folklife Study of the Salt Creek Valley of South Central Indiana…
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
In Memoriam
William McNeil?Bill to his friends, W. K. to his professional audience, and Dr. James Withers to readers of his re? search notes for the privately printed Eat Beans, They Make You Astute (1988)?was born near Canton, North Carolina, on 13 August 1940. As a child he developed a lifelong love of reading, and in his teens he found plenty of time to pursue this passion while bedridden with rheumatic fever for more than a year. During that period of re…
Miracle Magazine in the Sixties
This article examines typical narratives of healings and blessings that appeared in Miracle Magazine during the 1960s under evangelist editor A. A. Allen to show how mass media preachers exploit folk beliefs. The testimonies in Miracle Magazine included, among other miracles, accounts of exorcizing bosom serpents, miracle fillings, supernatural healings of invalids, divine cures of cancer, and blessings receivedforpledging money to Allen's minist…
Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007)
Other| April 01 2008 Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007) Ronald L. Baker Ronald L. Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2008) 121 (480): 219–220. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ronald L. Baker; Kelsie B. Harder (1922-2007). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2008; 121 (480): 219–220. doi: https…
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