Person Detail: Roger D. Abrahams

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Full Name: Roger D. Abrahams | ||
Biography: (1933-2017) Folklorist. Roger D. Abrahams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Sunnyvale, California. |
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1933 |
(Unknown) County Roger David Abrahams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 12, 1933. |
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2017 |
(Unknown) County Roger D. Abrahams died in Sunnyvale, California, on June 20, 2017. |
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1964 |
(Unknown) County Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia (Pub: Folklore Associates ISBN: ) Nonfiction. |
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1992 |
(Unknown) County Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South (Pub: New York: Pantheon Books ISBN: ) Nonfiction. |
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1975 |
(Unknown) County Discovering Afro-America (Pub: Brill ISBN: 9004042644 / 978-9004042643) Nonfiction edited with John F. Szwed. |
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2006 |
(Unknown) County Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul (Pub: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812239598 / 978-0812239591) Collection of essays written with John F. Szwed, Nick Spitzer, and Robert Farris Thompson. |
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1959 |
New York County Professor Abrahams received a master's degree in literature and folklore from Columbia University in 1959. |
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1977 |
(Unknown) County Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America, and the West Indies (Pub: Institute for the Study of Human Issues (June 1978) ISBN: 0915980800 / 978-0915980802) Nonfiction. |
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1983 |
(Unknown) County The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture (Pub: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 0801828384 / 978-0801828386) Nonfiction. |
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1970 |
(Unknown) County Positively Black (Pub: Prentice Hall ISBN: 0136860974 / 978-0136860976) Nonfiction. |
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1970 |
(Unknown) County Positively Black (Pub: Prentice Hall ISBN: 0136860974 / 978-0136860976) Nonfiction. |
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1976 |
(Unknown) County Talking Black (Pub: Newbury House Publishers ISBN: 0883770393 / 978-0883770399) Nonfiction. |
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1969 |
(Unknown) County Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (Pub: University of Texas Press (February 15, 2014). Originally published in 1969 ISBN: 0292712162 / 978-0292712164) Nonfiction edited with Lois Rankin. |
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1980 |
(Unknown) County Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary (Pub: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292710577 / 978-0292710573) Nonfiction edited with Lois Rankin. |
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1980 |
(Unknown) County Between the Living and the Dead: Riddles Which Tell Stories (Pub: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia ISBN: 9514103688 / 978-9514103681) Nonfiction. |
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2005 |
(Unknown) County Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices (Pub: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812238419 / 978-0812238419) Nonfiction. |
