Quotes About Folklorist

Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

Pitrè did in folklore what Verga had done in literature; he was the first folklorist to transcribe not only traditional motifs or linguistic usages, but the inner poetry of the stories.