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<p>The pioneer collector of the songs and stories of the coal miners, George Korson (1899â1967) was also a leader-many say the leader-in correcting the onetime rural and Anglo-American bias in U.S. folklore studies. Korson won the highest honors in the scholarly world, despite his humble origin as a poor Jewish immigrant boy from the Ukraine, his self-training as a folklorist while working as a newspaperman, and his quiet challenge to the folklore establishment. Among the first biographies of American folklorists, this book recounts a colorful life story, a heroic personal achievement, and a significant contribution to the recognition of industrial folklore.</p><p>During forty-three years of full-time journalistic employment, Korson wrote five definitive books on coal mining folklore-as well as many articles; started the Library of Congress archive of miners' songs and ballads-with his wife, a musicologist; founded and directed the Pennsylvania Folk Festival; and helped launch the National Folk Festival. He was awarded a University of Pennsylvania Citation in 1949, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957, a University of Chicago Folklore Prize in 1961, and an Israeli Service Ribbon in Am

Author

Angus K. Gillespie

Publisher

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271002552

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Memoir