Bernice Johnson Reagon—In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research
Author:
Early James Counts1,
Horowitz Amy2
Affiliation:
1. james counts early is the former director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and assistant secretary for education and public service, Smithsonian Institution
2. amy horowitz is a former acting director/curator at Smithsonian Folkways and a senior fellow and director of GALACTIC at the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University
Abstract
Abstract
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a groundbreaking contributor to the field of folklore studies. Reagon's career as a historian, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, founding participant in the Association of African and African American Folklorists, and founder and director of the Smithsonian Institution's Program in Black Culture provides a body of scholarly perspectives and interpretations for folklore studies that encompasses community-based renditions of history, public culture, and deeper theorizing about the construct of authenticity in folklore studies. Her significance to folklore studies is yet to be examined in depth, and this article is a call to the field to do so.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Cultural Studies
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