Randolph, Vance
Randolph, Vance (1892–1980),American folklorist and expert on Ozark folklore and culture. Randolph was an accomplished storyteller and self‐trained scholar, who worked outside of the academic setting most of his life. His fieldwork among the Ozark mountain people began in 1919 and spanned more than four decades, yielding publications on numerous folklore topics: Ozark Folksongs (1946–50), Ozark Superstitions (1947), We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks (1951), Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech (1953), Hot Springs and Hell, and Other Folk Jests and Anecdotes from the Ozarks (1965) and Pissing in the Snow, and Other Ozark Folktales (1976). The latter, a collection of bawdy tales omitted from earlier publications at the insistence of his editors, marked an important departure from the practice of censoring folklore's erotic or obscene content. Ironically,...
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