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Celebrating Mississippi's Bicentennial:  Mississippi Folklore

Celebrating Mississippi's Bicentennial: Mississippi Folklore

Authors

Greg Johnson

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There were a number of folklorists and collectors that went all around the country during the New Deal, as part of the Works Progress Administration, collecting examples of folk songs, folk customs, folk lore, folk stories, just all of the things that make a people united in different regions. And all of these come from, when you trace these back, you can see examples of early Irish, Scottish, English, settlers in the country as well as those folk stories and tales from France that made their way here, folk stories from parts of Africa and the Caribbean and Native American folk tales and culture that have all kind of comingled here in Mississippi to form our very diverse and unique folk culture.

Publication Date

1-20-2017

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Celebrating Mississippi's Bicentennial:  Mississippi Folklore

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