Folklore Exam 2

Assemblage

a collection of different things that come together to create meaningful and beautiful single units

Wild Wheels

Show watched about cars in class

Button Car

Shows his identity that he likes buttons and originally was created to cure bordum

Sheridan Saddles

very ornate saddles that show craftsmanship and defy social norms of men and flowers

flowers and saddle type

Don King

4 phases of his life

• younger years

• carved all over the west learning different styles

• then apprenticeship

• highly elaborate works

Don King flowers

small 2 - 2.5 in wild roses and poppies 5 symmetrical pedals

function of saddle

connect with tradition

Keep busy

Express individuality and creativity

preserve local heritage

work tool (riding a horse)

Body Art

any purposeful aesthetic modification or supplementation to the body

Examples of Body Art

clothing, costume, hairstyles, jewelry, tattoos, Henna, etc

Tattoo communication

• mild form of rebellion,

• feel/ look tuff,

• create a group connection,

• show love for a loved one,

• souvenir

• art is not just for the receiver but also artist

Henna

The dried and powdered leaves of the henna plant used to temporarily dye the skin with designs

Tradition of Henna

usually on hands, flowers as a motif, tools (cones), adornment, beauty, group activity

Variation of henna

the meaning (ceremonial, bridal, for fun, adornment), the part of the body

Examples of Henna

vines coming down the fingers (married), flower in the middle of hand, also shows wealth

Difference in Henna

Indian in India - can be regular

non-indian in New York - tattoo designs, North African as well, beyond the hands

Indians in NY - places catering to indians, tattoo motif

Costume definition

special dress that enables the expression of alternate identities in exceptional, extraordinary context

Dress

Daily clothing worn to reflect ones physical environment, social context and as a personal maker of society

Coding

Composing a message so that t makes sense to a chosen audience within a particular social/cultural context

Function of costume

social

heritage

creativity

education

individuality

Halloween

one is not as good as a unit

express an identity that is usually not shown

material matter

Lewis Wheeler

• people reacted differently to his shaved head

  • felt lonely during this time

• acting allows him to know a fuller version of himself

• acting is the transformation of yourself in to this character

• costume is a tool to make the transformation complete

Ellen Adair

• she tracks her life by characters she has become

• she will always be discontent with one version of herself

• she’s the most herself when she’s playing someone else

James Ingram (Gowan Pamphlet)

• been dong this person for 20 years

• character is a literate black man

• secretly ministered religion to slaves

• “telling the stories of enslaved people allows him to tell the story of America”

• educational mission

Terry Thon (basket weaver)

• Basket weaver

• wants to tell a story of class

  • she is telling her story and proud to wear what her family used to wear and do

• generational tradition of basket weaving

American Civil War

• 50,00 people reenact the civil war

• camaraderie

• education and self education

Jay Vogel

• civil war enactor (general Longstreet)

• likes to reenact to connect himself to his military service

• ties him to his past and his family

Frank Orlando

• Civil War enactor (General Lee)

• retired school teacher, volunteer

• has a commitment to authenticity and truth

Florecnio Morales

• Yard art and gardener

• JFK head in yard to shoe his respect

• The demon dancer

  • devil and a bride

• Expresses his beliefs through is yard art

  • especially about alcohol

• Mexican American

Example of yard display from the book

Christmas Display

• Winnie the Pooh light up decoration

• up to 5ft tall people in the nativity set

• expresses Mexican American Identity by “Feliz Navidad” and “viva Mexico signs”

• holds mas under the tent showing roman catholic

• creates community and celebrates the bih fo Jesus

• also lowers crime rates

Vernacular Archetecture

everyday building s lived in by average people

Log Cabins

• symbol of the American Frontier

• a small house made of two rooms, built out of logs, fireplace on one side.

• Irish house, two doors that align

• Inform - Irish; in material - German

I-House

• formal division of house

• tall and skinny, one room deep, 2 rooms on bottom and 2 above

• came from England

• Front porch comes from West Africa

Saddlebag house

• poorer house type,

• stems from a log cabin with an extra room (Irish)

Bluegrass Music

• Southern Mountain music

• Northern Ireland

  • traditional to play solo

  • only play the melody

• West African

  • banjo

    • Africa —> Carribean—> USA

• A blend of black and white culture

• banjo and fiddle played together

• shows industry

  • catalogs (mandoline - Italy; guitar - Spanish)

• JAZZ

  • old time music with Jazz

Ballod

Sung narrative

Bill Monroe

• Father of Bluegrass music

• sings in the high lonesome sound (yodel)

• mandoline solos

• Molly andTenbrooks

  • about horse racing changed to work in US Kentucky derby

Ola Belle Reed

• one of 13 children

• music is a family tradition

• moves from NC to Pennsylvania

• in PA she worked as a Domestic Servant

• her songs represent her philosophy

  • critical about class and prejudice

• she voiced the experiences of others through her ballads

Ive endured

Ola belle reed song that is purely auto- biographical

corrido

Traditional Mexican ballad, often concerning border crossing

coyote

trickster, smuggler, common in mexican folklore

La bracera

trickster immigrant (person who marries for a greencard)

Coded Langauge

certain phrases or terms used to address the insider community, not understood by outsiders

El majado casado

portrays a trickster immigrant trying to get papers but actually marries another trickster doing the same thing

La mica

green card

North Carolina Pottery themes

• the natural environment

• regional history

• art and collaboration

• community, family, and individuality

• english in form but Chinese and english in glaze

• use of negative space

Pot requires 2 things

kiln and wheel

salt glaze

• comes from Germany via England

• raised glaze

ash glaze

• comes from china

• mixture of wood ash and clays and crushed glass

Mark Hewitt

• originally from England moved to NC in 80s

• he combined ash and salt glaze

• chose NC because he waned good clay and pine trees

• apart of a community of potters (community leader)

• family was potters in England

• innovative way of filtering clay

• only has 3 firings a year and a special ground hog kiln

Daniel Johnston

• From NC completely local

• apprentice to Mark Hewitt

• dropped out of HS and became a potter

• went to Thailand and learned how to make BIG pots

• comes back and establishes his own pottery place

• his kiln shaped as a boat

• has a modified salt thrower (leaf blower)

• takes the community to do the firings

Quilts function

• made for themselves and children to keep warm

• aesthetic

• influenced by African culture

• pass time

Gees Bend quilts

• came from one plantation in Alabama

• pieces of cloth together

• use color as an accent

• the underlying structure has order but never straight repetition

• fun for the viewer and the maker

• use of jeans and any fabric they could get

Themes for quilts

• shows the work role by the use of worn materials

• family and love (took husband’s work clothes to remember him.

Sweetgrass Baskets

• based on west african baskets

• original style of coiling is west African but materials are from South Carolina

• being lost because fo development of land

Mary Jackson

• basket weaver

• learned from her mother and grandmother

• makes contemporary designs

• went from craft to art

Gullash Geechee

• Descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo, and cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast

• cam from rice-growing regions in Africa

Foodways

the eating habits and culinary practices of people regional or historical periods

Food as society identity

breakfast

• continental comes from England

• shifted to American breakfast the the introduction of cereal and yogurt

Thanksgiving

first was celebrated in virginia (meat was pork)

President lincoln declared it a national holiday

food as identity of self

• gluten free

• cultural subscriptions

limitations

• gf, no salt

• cannot afford it

• etc

Green Bean casteroll

• created by Campbell soup company

• so much variation

• mainly mid western

Tamales functions

• Mexican American tradition

• sharing family time

• used as a cheap food to feed a lot of people

• family activity

• matriarchal

• story sharing

Cajuns

Ethnic group living in south louisiana who are descendants of Acadian exiles - french speakers from eastern Canada

Cajun food cultural unit identity

• made in one big pot

• melting pot of cultures

• use of natural resources (frog, waterways, and crawfish)

Wedding dress as a costume

• getting married

• flowers represent Ukrainian

• tulle dress to show modernness

Williamsberg

created as purpose of education and a museum