Stetson Kennedy oral history interview, 1988 Dec. 31.

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Stetson Kennedy oral history interview, 1988 Dec. 31.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726969

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Stetson Kennedy on December 31, 1988 in which he discusses folklore in Europe; racism in France; Peking Opera; traditional music and political struggle; television and international cultural development; religion and shared folk customs; religious culture in Russia; exposure to Gypsy culture in Romania and Hungary; gypsy folklore; anti-gypsy sentiment; anti-Semitism; Hungarian government's support of folklore; American jazz in Paris; Jean Paul Sartre; Pete Seeger; Pittsburgh Courier; "Sonny Boy" cartoon; Jacksonville Times-Union; bolito and numbers game; cultural chauvinism; "high tech" folk culture; anthropologists and folklore; folklorists and objectivity; Zora Neale Hurston; Florida Folklore Society; Florida Historical Society; recent developments in folk discipline; "national cultural rights" in China; use of dialect; Richard Wright; The Florida Negro; and political terminology.

2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (69 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406234

Georgia State University

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