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D. K. Wilgus Folklore Collection
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Identifier: BCA 0067 SAA 067
Abstract
D.K. Wilgus was a native of Columbus, Ohio and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Ohio State University (1941-1954). His Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898, remains the definitive overview of the history of folksong scholarship in America. Wilgus was the first to plead "hillbilly" music's case for academic respectability. He was a pioneer in the teaching of Anglo-American Folksong as a rigorous academic subject, in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1918-1989; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1991