- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Folklife: Overview
- Creator:
- Burrison, John A., 1942-
- Date of Original:
- 2005-04-06
- Subject:
- Folklore--Georgia
Material culture--Georgia
Oral tradition--Georgia
Manners and customs
Georgia--Social life and customs
Pottery--Georgia
Folk music--Georgia
Shape note singing--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article providing an overview of folklife in Georgia. Georgia folklife includes a wide range of community-shared, informally learned traditions, from the African American folktales popularized in the Uncle Remus books of Joel Chandler Harris to the mountain lore presented in the Foxfire publications and the celebrations and foods of recent immigrants. The ethnic, occupational, and locale-based diversity of Georgia folklife can be compared to a multipatterned patchwork quilt, with fishing and Geechee traditions on the coast, swamp lore in the Okefenokee, a rich pottery and blues heritage in the Piedmont, and ballad singing, fiddling, and banjo-picking in the mountains.
GSE identifier: SS2H2 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/folklife-overview/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Folklife: Overview," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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