Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices By Geoffrey Bownas
2004 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0415330696 | PDF | 7 MB
The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan.Originally published in 1963.

Trevor J. Blank, "Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction"
English | 2012 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0874218896 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving vernacular culture. Folk Culture in the Digital Age documents the emergent cultural scenes and expressive folkloric communications made possible by digital "new media" technologies.

Exploring American Folk Music Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States by Kip Lornell | 5.64 MB
English | 409 Pages

Title: Exploring American Folk Music
Author: Kip Lornell
Year: 2012

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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
English | August 9, 2022 | ISBN: 0393882160 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.3 MB
A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.

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Album: Traditional And Folk Songs Of Yugoslavia
Artist: Branko Mataja
Genre: Musiques du monde
Date/Year: 2022

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FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Prog Rock, Ballad, Country Rock | 1h 59 min | 724 / 295 MB

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FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Vocal, Folk, Disco | 1h 10 min | 372 / 163 MB

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CD-Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) / MP3 320 kbps | World, Folk, Jewish | 1h 17 min | 446 / 181 MB

Maria Rieder, "Irish Traveller Language: An Ethnographic and Folk-Linguistic Exploration "
English | ISBN: 3319767135 | 2018 | 285 pages | AZW3 | 564 KB
This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant, and Cant as 'identity'. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.