On relationships between folk music and folk games

Article Abstract:

The scholarship of singing games has advanced little since the late 19th century. Singing games are frequently confused with dance or restricted to children. Singing games are games in which the activity is structured by a song. Examples include jump rope, hand claps and counting out rhymes. Related but distinct categories are game songs and song games. Game songs, popular among the Navajos, are songs which are sung in connection with a game but which do not structure the game. Song games are games that consist entirely of singing without an accompanying activity.

Social aspects, Games, Folk music

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Kurt E. Koch and the "civitas diaboli": Germanic folk healing as satanic ritual abuse of children

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Kurt E. Koch's theories on demonology, derived from a combination of psychoanalysis, folk belief and Christian traditions, helped establish many of the traits found in contemporary anti-occult movements. Koch believed that folk-medicine, however much it mimicked Christian religion, would do lasting spiritual harm to the patient and practitioner, and that the ancestors of both would also be tainted. These beliefs, and his belief that such folk-medicine constituted satanic worship, can be seen in contemporary satanic abuse panics.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public opinion, Parapsychology, Satanism, Occultism, Koch, Kurt E.

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"Did the cameraman film you?" Finding the folk in H. Lee Water's movies of local people

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The local film is a film of a pre-existing community that is shown in a public setting to an audience whose members significantly overlap with the community filmed. Local films by Herbert Lee Waters that allows one to recover the records of places and people and see the way in which they were used to solidify community bonds is discussed.

United States, Criticism and interpretation, Works, Documentary films, Documentary movies, Cinematographers, Critical essay, Movies of Local People (Motion picture), Waters, Herbert Lee

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