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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 Smithsonian Institution in 1948
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.
Smithsonian Folkways states that their mission "is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document 'people's music.'" They "are dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound", and that "musical and cultural ...
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.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain to the United States.
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 ]
This is a selected list of Smithsonian Folkways musical artists. The artists here were compiled from the index of the book, Worlds of Sound by Richard Carlin, [1] and the featured artists listed on the Smithsonian Folkways website. [2] Not all of the artists listed here recorded exclusively for the Smithsonian Folkways label.
The surprising offspring of the urban revival's intersection with a traditional musical community, Watson and Ashley's Original Folkways Recordings reveals a bottomless well of tradition and a music as fresh and exciting today as it was to the college kids and festival followers of the early '60s."