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  2. Texas Folklore Society - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Folklore Society is a non-profit organization formed on December 29, 1909, in Dallas, Texas. [1] According to John Avery Lomax, the first print collection included "public songs and ballads; superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs; legends; dialects; games, plays and dances; fiddles and proverbs."

  3. Marcelle Lively Hamer - Wikipedia

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    Hamer studied and wrote about Texas history, politics, and folklore for journals such as the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the Frontier Times. [1] One of her most popular writings, "Anecdotes as Sidelights to Texas History," was published in a 1939 Texas Folklore Society publication titled In the Shadow of History. [9]

  4. J. Frank Dobie - Wikipedia

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    After a year on the ranch, Dobie returned to UT and began to use its library and the Texas Folklore Society's resources to write about the vanishing way of life on rural Texas ranches. In 1922, he became the Texas Folklore Society's secretary and began a program for publication, holding the post of secretary-editor for 21 years.

  5. Jovita González - Wikipedia

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    Her first of many contributions to the society was to Texas and Southwestern Lore, [8] "a collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales." [10] She added tales and songs "of the masculine world of the vaqueros."

  6. John Lomax - Wikipedia

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    The same year, Stith Thompson edited the first volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, which Dobie reissued as Round the Levee in 1935. This publication exemplified the society's express purpose, and the motivation behind Lomax's own work: to gather a body of folklore before it disappeared, and to preserve it for the analysis ...

  7. Sylvia Grider - Wikipedia

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    Grider joined Texas A&M University in 1976. She taught Folklore classes in the departments of English, History, and Humanities in Medicine. She was Assistant Dean of the Graduate College from 1981 to 1984 and would later be based in the Department of Anthropology from 1988 to 2007.

  8. J. Mason Brewer - Wikipedia

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    John Mason Brewer (March 24, 1896 – January 24, 1975) was an American folklorist, scholar, and writer noted for his work on African-American folklore in Texas. He studied at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and Indiana University Bloomington, while he taught at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas, Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina ...

  9. Culture of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas has a considerable independent body of folklore, primarily in connection with its historical ranching and cowboy cultures, the American Old West, and the Texas War of Independence. The Texas Folklore Society is the second-oldest folklore organization continually functioning in the United States. Many well-known figures and stories in ...