Folklore

Scope and Contents Contains excerpts from ‘Folklore in the Army Airborne, The 101st Airborne Division’ by M.B. Abbott and retrieved from the Folklore Archive at Western Kentucky University, March 13 1984. Contains ‘The Paratroopers’ Prayer’, the foreword and the introduction. The subject matter includes discussion of the archetypal paratrooper, paratrooper chants and general sociological analyses. The original date that the work was published is unspecified, however the subject matter suggests a publication...

Scope and Contents A collection of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, printed articles and email correspondence. Documents the history of New Zealand exploration of Antarctica, along with New Zealand-United States relations concerning activity in Antarctica. The correspondence is of both a personal and professional nature, often concerning the history of Antarctic exploration, folklore and other miscellaneous topics. The publication date range c. 1974-2004. The subject matter includes dates from 1901...

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A collection of printed articles that detail the features of Western Military folklore. Features of these discussions include Naval Aviation, superstition, “adjusting to acculturation”, sexual symbolism, homophobia, G.I. Slang and general language, cartoons and iconography and “Shakespeare and the U.S. Army”. The publication date range is 1946-1985. The subject matter is c. 1911-1975.

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A collection of correspondence, typed script and handwritten notes. The correspondence is primarily between LC, Curator of Oral History and Folklore, Kevin Bradley and Rena McGrogan of the University of Sydney Library. The focus is primarily concerning the best place to house LC’s folklore collection. The date range from the correspondence is December 2007 to January 2008.

Scope and Contents Sectioned off within the folder is a collection of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publication release forms and both the original and photocopies sheet music for ‘Billjim’s Aussie Song’ by Meta Maclean. The collection is primarily focused on popular culture and folklore of world war periods. The publication date range is c. 1926-2007. The subject matter date range is c. 1914-2008. Separate to this subcollection is a series of email correspondence between LC and...

Scope and Contents A series of printed web pages from Rams Skull Press, the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Military and the James Cook University websites. Includes lists of books by Rams Skull with folklore content, an encyclopaedic entry on the mutinies in the 1st Australian Imperial Force (AIF), some brief information about ‘Warren Fahey’s ‘Songs the Diggers Really Sang’ and a review of Peter Pierce’s ‘The Country of Lost Children: an Australian Anxiety’. All the material was printed on...

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Contains a series of information on the Australian Folklore Journal including subscription details, information for intending contributors and background information of the Journal. Also includes information of an Australian Folklore ‘F320’ course at Indiana University. All documents were printed on 5/2/2007.

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A collection of folkloric material retrieved from interviews conducted at Berkeley [university?]. Contains military folk songs, background information of the songs, parodies and taboos. The material mostly pertains to a WWII or Vietnam War context, discussing the soldier’s lifestyles and attitudes. The publication date range of the collection is c. 1960-1983.

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A collection of printed articles, bibliographies, reference lists and correspondence. Includes two copies of LC’s article for the Journal of the New York Folklore Society, titled ‘Military Folklore and the Underwood Collection’ along with the references (including those from the Underwood collection] and other examples of bibliographies. The correspondence is with Journal editor Phillip Stevens Jr., about the references for his article. The date range is c. 1956-1988.

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Contains the manuscript of Calvin K. Crego, ‘A Tribute to Jody: Still Alive and Still a Civilian’, Urban Folklore, Folklore Archive, Anthropology Department, Buffalo State University College, New York, December 11, 1986.

Scope and Contents Contains an entire printed copy of Ed Cray, ‘The Erotic Muse: American bawdy songs’ (London; New York: Omnibus Press, 1978). Also includes a series of correspondence with Ed Cray about a new edition of the publication and personal material, dated c. 1988. Within the publication is another folder titled ‘Bernys, Women’s Songs’ in which is the typed manuscript of Diane Bernys, ‘Army Life Songs’, Folklore Archive, Department of Anthropology, State University College, Buffalo, New York, December...

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Contains William R. Ferris Jr., ‘The Enlisted Man: Army Folklore’, ‘New York Folklore’, Vol. 2, Nos. 3 + 4, Winter 1976, pp 229-234..

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A section of the Underwood collection that contains typed script, correspondence and photocopied newspapers and articles. The primary focus of the collection is on the fabled character of ‘Kilroy’ and the origin of the ‘Kilroy was here’ tagging tradition that bred out of WWII (which appears to be disputed). The date range of the content is c. 1947-1962.

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Contains the single newspaper clipping of ‘Thumbed Down’, Dominion Post, 10 November, 1990, p 9. The article documents the dozen or so reports of angels hitchhiking in Wellington and Auckland, telling Christian drivers about Christ’s imminent return.

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A collection of newspaper articles, handwritten notes and multiple editions of the newsletter of the New Zealand Folklore Society, “Penny Post”. Details the conveyance of folklore through music, jokes, tall stories and superstitions. The newsletter details obituaries, income meeting details, fundraising, income and expenditure, acknowledgements and music. The publication date range is 1972-1973. The subject matter includes dates as far back as 1857.

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Contains a photocopy of Edith Fowke, “A Sampling of Bawdy Ballads From Ontario”, in Bruce Jackson (ed.), ‘Folklore and Society: Essays in Honor of Benjamin A. Botkin, (Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1966).

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Fyfe, Frank, ‘A “Shanties” or Two’, New Zealand Folklore Society, (Wellington: New Zealand Folklore Society, 1970).

Scope and Contents An extensive collection of song lyrics, ditties, song background information and articles all retrieved from the Folklore Institute Archives at Indiana University. The archive material was originally sourced from various informants across America who participated in WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The background information offers insight into the folkloric aspect to the songs included. Also included is a series of correspondence between LC and Assistant Archivist at the Folklore...

Scope and Contents Contains the manuscript of LC’s ‘Kiwis in Vietnam’, along with a handwritten note and a letter of correspondence between Lydia Fish and Journal of American Folklore editor, Bruce Jackson. The manuscript details “songs of professional New Zealand soldiers in Vietnam” and general folklore surrounding the soldiers. The correspondence details why Jackson believes the manuscript is insufficient for journal use. The date of correspondence is April 23 1989. The subject matter date range is c....

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Contains the manuscript of Leora Lewis, ‘Armed Services Folklore’, Folklore Archive, Department of Anthropology, State University College, Buffalo, New York, April 28, 1974. Includes a series of ‘informant interviews’ about their experiences in the Armed Services.

Scope and Contents Contains multiple photocopies of excerpts from Vietnam war informant interviews. The collection was originally compiled by Charles E. Martin and was retrieved from the Folklore Archive at Western Kentucky University. Each excerpt demonstrates the folklore that was present in soldier culture of the Vietnam War. The informants discuss good luck charms, superstitions, particular characters they came across and being wounded. Also included is some biographical information of the informants. The...

Scope and Contents Contains a newspaper clipping and two copies of an article titled ‘Miracle of Mons’, from the Underwood collection [See Box 1, ‘Underwood’ section]. The newspaper article is titled ‘Who is ‘Kilroy’?’ and contains seven letters from people claiming to known the origin of the ‘Kilroy was here’ tag that was popularised during and after WWII. ‘Miracle of Mons’ refers a fictional story about a WWI battle that was interpreted as fact even though it had taken creative liberties with the actual...

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A collection of correspondence, printed articles, handwritten notes and typed manuscript. The collection demonstrates LC’s relationship with the New York Folklore Society, it includes many renewed membership letters and correspondence with the editor about LC’s articles and reviews. Also includes mutiple copies of his article ‘Soldiers’ Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless’ and ‘Frontier New York: A Personal Experience’. The publication date range of the collection is 1984-2010.

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Contains material that is either written or edited by Roger D. Abrahams. Includes ‘Doing Folklore Texas-Style’ and ‘Shouting Match at the Border: The Folklore of Display Events’, in ‘“And Other Neighborly Names”: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore’, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), and chapters 5 and 6 of ‘Deep Down in the Jungle’, (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1963).

Scope and Contents A collection of printed articles, handwritten notes and newspaper clippings. The titles included are “Black Song: the Forge and the Flame’, ‘Putting Down Ole Massa: African Satire in the New World” in ‘African Folklore in the New World’, “A Pantheon of Heroes” in ‘Black Culture + Black Consciousness’, ‘The Social Implications of Negro Music in the United States’, ‘Afro-American Worksongs on Land and Sea’ in ‘By Land and By Sea: Studies in the Folklore of Work and Leisure’ and ‘Get Your Ass...

Summary of contents Contains two manuscripts titled ‘Soldiers’ Songs as Occupational Folklore’ and ‘Soldiers Songs: World War 1 to Vietnam’, along with a list of central concepts on the topic, two copies of a diagram titled ‘Military Songs as Expressive Behaviour Towards Authority’ and a Victoria University of Wellington Department of Anthropology welcome and lamenting waiata, ‘Tomo Mai’. The central topics including occupational folklife, folksong, Military Occupational Song, Moral, Technique and how...

Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence, newspaper obituaries, printed articles and a photocopied cover of the songbook ‘Songs our Mothers Never Taught us’. The majority of correspondence is between LC and Jim Henderson, famed journalist and writer of ‘Gunner Inglorious’ and is of both a personal and professional nature. Also included is LC’s article ‘Soldier’s Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless’ published in New York Folklore [See ‘Australia, Billjim’ folder for another example]. The publication...

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'The Maorilander', Journal of the New Zealand Folklore Society, Vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1970-1972.

Scope and Contents A collection of printed articles, typed manuscripts, handwritten notes, handwritten soldier slang and correspondence. The collection documents the process of obtaining Agnes Underwood’s collection for the Folklore Archive at State University College, Buffalo, New York. Includes three copies of an article written by LC about the collection and about Underwood. The correspondence included is from both Lydia Fish (of State University College) Professor Phillips Stevens Jr. (New York Folklore...