Green, Archie
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Green, A.R., 1917-2009
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Green, Archie 1917-2009
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Archie Green, American folklorist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, b. 6-29-1917.
Anglo-American singer Sarah Ogan Gunning (1910-1983) from Knox County, Ky., known for her performances of traditional ballads and songs, as well as her own compositions on the poverty and social conditions of coal miners.
Archie Green (1917-2009) was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939 and then worked in San Francisco shipyards, served in the United States Navy in World War II, and was active in several labor organizations. He earned an M.L.S. degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph. D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Green joined the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960, where he was librarian and later served also as an instructor in the English Department until 1972. In 1973, Green took on a creative role at the Labor Studies Center in Washington, D.C., in part assisting with the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife and labor participation in the Bicentennial celebrations. At the same time, he produced sound recordings, conducted fieldwork, and wrote extensively. He was active in the John Edwards Memorial Foundation and in the movement to establish the Center for American Folklife (1976). Green retired from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s to San Francisco, Calif., where he continued to work collaboratively with many individuals and institutions dedicated to the study of folklore and the preservation of folklife. Archie Green died in March 2009.
Archie Green (1917-2009) was an eminent scholar in the area of occupational folklore. He worked in a variety of capacities as a folklorist--archivist, field worker, professor, and public sector advocate. He was best known for his work with labor materials and early hillbilly music recordings.
Archie (Aaron) Green grew up in southern California, began college at UCLA, and then transferred to the University of California at Berkeley from which he was graduated in 1939. After working in the shipyards in San Francisco, serving in the Navy in World War II, and becoming active in several labor organizations, Green returned to academia. He received his M.L.S. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.
Green joined the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960 and served there as librarian and later jointly as an instructor in the English Department until 1972. In 1973, Green took on a creative role at the Labor Studies Center in Washington, D.C., in part assisting with the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife and labor participation in the Bicentennial celebrations. At the same time, he was producing albums, conducting fieldwork, teaching, lecturing, and writing articles. He was active in the John Edwards Memorial Foundation (now Forum) from its inception and lobbied Congress to pass the American Folklife Foundation Act, which it did in 1976, establishing the Center for American Folklife.
Green retired as professor emeritus from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s to his home in San Francisco, Calif., where he continued to work collaboratively on research and other projects with many individuals and institutions dedicated to the study of folklore and the preservation of folklife. He received an honorary degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. Archie Green died in March 2009.
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Musicians
Applied folklore
Ballads, English
Blues (Music)
Cannery workers
Carpenters
Centralia Massacre, Centralia, Wash., 1915
Church music
Collective bargaining
Country music
Country musicians
Cowboys
Fiddle tunes
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Folklore
Folklore
Folklore
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Folk music
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Old-time music
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Political ballads and songs
Protest songs
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Railroads
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Sheet metal work
Shipwrights
Songs, English
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Stevedores
Stevedores
Storytelling
Textile workers
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Wheatland Hop Riot, Wheatland, Calif., 1913
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Decatur (Ga.)
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Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Ala. and Miss.)
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