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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."
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Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. (July 12, 1873 – June 16, 1945) was an American linguist and professor of English at the University of Texas.He was a co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society along with John Lomax, edited the first anthology of Texas literature, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of e.e. cummings.
As her interest in folklore grew, Stekert began doing fieldwork, collecting folksongs from traditional singers in upstate New York. [1] The songs Stekert collected from Ezra "Fuzzy" Barhight, a retired lumberjack from Cohocton, New York , she recorded and released as Songs of a New York Lumberjack in 1958.
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 ...
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]
Two of his siblings also developed significant careers studying folklore: Bess Lomax Hawes and John Lomax Jr. The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A&M University and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas. [7]
The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [ 1 ] Many versions of the song have been recorded, the most popular of which was by Mitch Miller , whose version reached No. 1 in the United States in 1955.