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folkways

(ˈfəʊkˌweɪz)
pl n
(Sociology) sociol traditional and customary ways of living
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Between Worlds presents an unparalleled look at the work of this enigmatic and dazzling artist, who blended common imagery with arcane symbolism, narration with abstraction, and personal vision with the beliefs and folkways of his time, says a review on the Princeton University Press website.
The material will be of high value to musicologists, performers of Irish and folk music, and scholars of Irish American history, cultural anthropology, and folkways of immigrant communities.
Divisions within the revival between traditionalist musicians and devotees of what the earlier generation of revivalists would call "pseudo folk," in addition to the birth of the Newport Folk Festival and the continued work of Moses Asch's Folkways Records during this time, are major points of discussion.
Sibod: Ideology and Expressivity in Binanog Dance, Music, and Folkways of the Panay Bukidnon by Maria Christine Muyco
Along the way, we also get a rough history of colonial life and folkways, all through the lens of alcohol.
Many of these recordings were released on their own label, Greenhays Records, and on Folkways.
It was these consequences which issued in the mores, for in a society built on slavery as the form productive industry, all the mores, obeying the strain of consistency, must conform to that as the chief of the folkways.
The first LP I bought was the Folkways record Lead Belly's Last Sessions Part 4.
The theme of the text is the revelation of the insidious way the Church slowly but surely changed folkways and folk beliefs into satanism and witchcraft.
"More Multicultural Children's Songs'' (Smithsonian Folkways) is a compilation of works done in the spirit of the people she's met around the world, she says.
Isler Gibson noted that Folkways, a clothing and accessories shop at 1801 Willamette St., also carries the scarves.