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A folkway is what is created through interaction and that process is what organizes interactions through routine, repetition, habit and consistency. [ 3 ] William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), an early U.S. sociologist , introduced both the terms "mores" (1898) [ 4 ] and "folkways" (1906) into modern sociology.
Folkways can refer to: Folkways or mores, in sociology, are norms for routine or casual interaction; Folkways Records, a record label founded by Moe Asch of the ...
The album includes the calls of 57 species of frogs in 92 separate tracks. The album was released on the Folkways Records label as part of its Science Series. By the 1990s, the album had developed a cult following and was featured on college radio stations.
Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.It is a part of the Smithsonian's Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C.
The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955. [1] Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region. [ 2 ]
Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986) was an American recording engineer and record executive. He founded Asch Records, which then changed its name to Folkways Records when the label transitioned from 78 RPM recordings to LP records.
In 1964 Allen, Wakefield and their band made a much-admired album for Folkways simply called Bluegrass, produced by a young David Grisman, an admirer of Allen and a mandolin student of Wakefield. The recording showed a larger public that Allen was a true disciple of the high lonesome sound associated with Bill Monroe .
Folkways FA 2951, featuring a poor Depression-era farmer. Folkways originally released the Anthology as three double-LP boxed sets on August 9, 1952. [15] It sold relatively poorly initially. By 1953, Folkways had sold only fifty albums, forty-seven of which went to libraries and colleges and for a time, it was out of print because of copyright ...