* Folklorists: Daniel Silvan Evans ( Y Brython, 1858 ), Peter Roberts ( Cambrian Popular Antiquities, 1815 ), W. Howells ( Cambrian Supertitions, 1831 ), Isaac Foulkes ( Cymru Fu, 1862 ), Wirt Sikes ( British Goblins, 1880 ), Daniel Silvan Evans, John Jones and others ( Ysten Sioned ), Elias Owen ( Welsh Folklore, 1896 ), Marie Trevelyan ( Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909 ), J. Ceredig Davies ( Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, 1911 ).

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

Folklorists who have collected traditional music of Massachusetts include Eloise Hubbard Linscott, whose field recordings from 1938 and 1941 are in the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

Robert Winslow Gordon, Lomax's predecessor at the Library of Congress, had written ( in an article in the New York Times, c. 1926 ) that, " Nearly every type of song is to be found in our prisons and penitentiaries " Folklorists Howard Odum and Guy Johnson also had observed that, " If one wishes to obtain anything like an accurate picture of the workaday Negro he will surely find his best setting in the chain gang, prison, or in the situation of the ever-fleeing fugitive.

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.

Folklorists have long studied variants on this tale across cultures.

Folklorists lay emphasis on the importance of the parallel Brünig-Napf-Reuss line further in the east, separating the historic Alemannic and Burgundian spheres of influence.

Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie indicate in The Classic Fairy Tales ( 1974 ) that " Hansel and Gretel " belongs to a group of European tales especially popular in the Baltic regions about children outwitting ogres into whose hands they have involuntarily fallen.

Folklorists also began to work as consultants in city planning, gerontology, economic development, multicultural education, conservation, and other fields.

Folklorists generally resist universal interpretations of narratives and, wherever possible, analyze oral versions of tellings in specific contexts, rather than print sources, which often show the work or bias of the writer or editor.

Folklorists have documented folk versions with obscene lyrics from the 19th century.

Folklorists have proposed that the mine kobold derives from the beliefs of the ancient Germanic people.

Folklorists of the first decade of the 20th century, especially those from Britain, included shanties among their interests in collecting folk songs connected with the idea of national heritage.

Folklorists and other ethnographers have taken advantage of each succeeding technology, from Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder recording machine ( invented in 1877 ) to the latest CD or digital audio equipment, to record the voices and music of many regional, ethnic, and cultural groups in the United States and around the world.

** Four Master Folklorists And Their Major Contributions Peninnah Schram, from Opening Worlds of Words, Peninnah Schram and Cherie Karo Schwartz

Folklorists such as Gwenith Gwynn, interviewing people in the early twentieth century, were unwittingly discovering folk memories of a Victorian misunderstanding rather than an actual, earlier folk practice.

Folklorists associate the practice with the widespread British custom of blacking up for mumming and morris dancing, and suggest there is no record of slave ships coming to Padstow.

Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways.

Folklorists of the " Finnish " ( or historical-geographical ) school attempted to place fairy tales to their origin, with inconclusive results.

Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding, or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity.

Folklorists sometimes divide oral tales into two main groups: Märchen and Sagen.

Folklorists of the 19th century saw these figures as Celtic fairies.

History of British Folklore, Volume I: The British Folklorists: A History.

Folklorists and cultural anthropologists such as P. Saintyves and Edward Burnett Tylor saw Little Red Riding Hood in terms of solar myths and other naturally occurring cycles, stating that the wolf represents the night swallowing the sun, and the variations in which Little Red Riding Hood is cut out of the wolf's belly represent the dawn.

Folklorists often interpret the French folk tale Cinderella as the competition between the stepmother and the stepdaughter for resources, which may include the need to provide a dowry.

James Sharpe, in The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: the Western Tradition, states: " Folklorists began their investigations in the 19th Century found that familiars figured prominently in ideas about witchcraft.

Folklorists and cultural anthropologists such as P. Saintyves and Edward Burnett Tylor saw " Little Red Riding Hood " in terms of solar myths and other naturally-occurring cycles.

Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie have observed in The Classic Fairy Tales ( 1974 ) that " the tenor of Jack's tale, and some of the details of more than one of his tricks with which he outwits the giants, have similarities with Norse mythology.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

Functionalist folklorists like Botkin and Alan Lomax recognize that, though rooted in the past, folk music remained culturally relevant for the communities that maintained the traditions.

This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.

American folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax visited Nevis in 1962 in order to conduct long-term research into the black folk culture of the island.

He was recorded by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 and ' 42.

Alan Lomax first recorded House for the Library of Congress in 1941.

** Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist ( d. 2002 )

* July 19 – Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist ( b. 1915 )

On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction ( Rounder Select, 2000 ), there's a bawdy Irish folk song called " The Thrashing Machine " sung by tinker Annie O ' Neil, as recorded in the early 20th Century.

Here is a transcription of a conversation between Alan Lomax and Jelly Roll Morton where Morton explains the history of scat:

* Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, ( 1967 ) Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, Oak Publications, New York.

Morrison's father bought him his first acoustic guitar when he was eleven, and he learned to play rudimentary chords from the song book, The Carter Family Style, edited by Alan Lomax.

The primary precursor to ethnomusicology, comparative musicology, emerged in the late 19th century and early 20th century through the practice of people such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Alan Lomax, Constantin Brăiloiu, Vinko Zganec, Franjo Kuhač, Carl Stumpf, Erich von Hornbostel, Curt Sachs, Hugh Tracey, and Alexander J. Ellis.

* Alan Lomax: Mirades Miradas Glances.

Photos and CD by Alan Lomax, ed.

Inspired by the example of Alan Lomax, who had arrived in Britain and Ireland in 1950, and had done extensive fieldwork there, MacColl also began to collect and perform traditional ballads.

* Alan Lomax ( working for the Library of Congress ) discovers Muddy Waters and Son House, among others

" Alan Lomax, wrote: " Anonymous black musicians, longing to grab a train and ride away from their troubles, incorporated the rhythms of the steam locomotive and the moan of their whistles into the new dance music they were playing in jukes and dance halls.

These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector Alan Lomax, whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century.

These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.