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Some Still Do : Essays On Texas Customs Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 39
author
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Abernethy, Francis Edward.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574411020
print isbn13
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9781574411027
ebook isbn13
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9780585251868
language
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English
subject
Texas--Social life and customs.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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F386.S64 2000eb
ddc
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976.4
subject
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Texas--Social life and customs.
Page i
Some Still Do: Essays on Texas Customs
Edited by Francis Edward Abernethy
Publications of The Texas Folklore Society Number XXXIX
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Copyright 2000 by The Texas Folklore Society
All rights Reserved
Copyright 1975 by The Texas Folklore Society Encino Press, Austin
Printed in the United States of America
Permissions: University of North Texas Press P. 0. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203 (940) 565-2142 FAX (940) 565-4590
ISBN 1-57441-102-0
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Amateur and Professional Folklorists
By Wilson M. Hudson
When I chose to talk about amateur and professional folklorists, I felt sure that I should not be raising an issue that would split the Society into two factions. Within our ranks these distinguishable kinds of folklorists have existed very happily together, without being uncomfortably aware that there might be differences to fall out about. The last thing I should want to do is to create a division amongst us.
How are amateurs and professionals in folklore to be distinguished from one another? Let us leave out of consideration the question of how one makes one's living, which doesn't go to the heart of the matter. In general an amateur is someone who takes an interest and participates in a certain activity without observing a set of established principles and procedures. The professional, on the other hand, commits himself to the principles and procedures which have gained acceptance as producing the best results in his field of activity. He plays the game by the rules and in the prescribed manner.
Amateurs and professionals often think and sometimes say harsh things about each other. When the amateur is in a critical mood it seems to him that the professional's work is unoriginal, cut-and-dried, and lifeless. For his part the professional may wish that the amateur would not dabble in a field where he has no competence and can only spoil whatever he lays his hand to. When feeling more charitable, the professional can appreciate the amateur's enthusiasm and verve though he must deplore his lack of direction and discipline. And the amateur occasionally has to admit that the professional possesses a
Read on the evening of April 20, 1973, at the dinner of the Texas Folklore Society given in connection with its annual meeting. The speaker, who was made a Fellow of the Society at its previous meeting, served as Associate Editor from 1951 to 1964 and as Secretary-Editor from 1964 to 1971.
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range of knowledge and a sureness of purpose which are impressive in spite of his unemotional presentation.
There is one kind of amateur whom the professional can look upon with tolerance and even pridethat is, the forerunner who takes part in defining a new subject matter and in formulating an appropriate method of studying it. Since this man does his work before the rules have been established, he is necessarily an amateur; but since he helps establish the rules, he can be looked upon as preprofessional. That is to say, he is not yet a professional but he is on the road to becoming one. His role is that of a gifted beginner or a revered pioneer.
In the development of all the separate branches of the humanities, new fields have come into existence through the efforts of amateurs whose inclinations and enthusiasms led them to concentrate upon some phase or aspect of human activity, so that in time it could be seen as meriting and demanding special study in a particular manner.
This was the process which gave rise to the large and inclusive field now denominated "folklore studies." To take only one subject forming a part of these studies, let me review how the ballad passed from the stage of amateur interest to the stage of professional study. You will recall that Sir Philip Sidney said that the old song of Percy and Douglas could move his heart more than the blowing of a trumpet, and that Addison devoted a paper in the Spectator to "Chevy Chase" as an heroic poem. It was not until 1765 that a considerable collection of popular songs in English was published. Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is a landmark. The good Bishop loved the songs or he would not have busied himself with them, but he did not feel obliged to print the texts just as they appeared in the MS which had fallen into his hands. Comparison with the versions in his folio MS shows that he made changes for the sake of literary improvement. From the professional's point of view today, this was reprehensible, but Bishop Percy can be forgiven because he gave an impetus to further collection and study simply by printing ballads in a book. Besides, he did leave the original MS versions behind. It can be said that Bishop Percy was preprofessional.
Let us now take a big skip to F. J. Child's five-volume collection of English and Scottish Popular Ballads (188298). Child was professional in that he undertook to bring together all the known variants of popular ballads and to give information about the dating and provenience of each item. He used numbers as headings so that related
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