Oral Folk Culture of SWVA with Ricky Cox

Name: Oral Folk Culture of SWVA with Ricky Cox
Start: 2024-06-08T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-08T12:30:00-04:00
Location: 60 3rd St NW, Pulaski, VA, United States, Virginia 24301

Schedule

Sat Jun 08 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

60 3rd St NW, Pulaski, VA, United States, Virginia 24301 | Pulaski, VA

Join Ricky Cox at Pulaski Library to learn about the Oral Folk traditions of the area.Oral folklore is the most widely collected and studied of the three major types of folklore: oral, customary, and material. In addition to familiar narrative genres like myths, legends, and folktales, oral folklore encompasses dialect,folk names, proverbs, riddles, jokes, and songs.
This presentation will include examples of all the above and conclude with a few ballads and lyrical folk songs from the Appalachian Region.
Ricky Cox is retired from the Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center at Radford University.