Richard Chase (folklorist)
Richard Chase | |
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| Born | Richard Thomas Chase February 15 1904 Huntsville, Alabama, United States |
| Died | February 2 1988 (aged 83) |
| Education | Antioch College |
| Occupation | Folklorist |
| Known for | Authority on English-American literature, compiling of folk tales and game, primarily Appalachian |
Richard Thomas Chase[1][2] (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988)[3] was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.
Biography
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[edit | edit source]Chase compiled and edited several books of folktales and folk games (especially Appalachian), including:
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- The Jack Tales: told by RM Ward and his kindred in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in the southern mountains; with three tales from Wise County, Virginia (1943) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales (1948), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games (1949)
- The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (1955) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- American Folk Tales and Songs and other examples of English-American traditions as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere in the United States. (1956) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- "American Folk Tales and Songs: with Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie singing and Richard Chase Telling Tales" September 4, 1956
- various spoken word recordings including Richard Chase Tells Three Grandfather Tales.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama and graduated Antioch College in 1929. He lived in California from 1964 to 1975 and was a regular at the Southern Renaissance Pleasure Faire, created by Ron and Phyllis Patterson, in Ventura County, California, where he is remembered for holding court under a large oak tree. He introduced English Country Dancing to the faire, bringing a group of his students from Claremont College. Chase had one daughter, Ann Gay Chase Applegate.[4][5]
References
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- ^ http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org [full citation needed]
- ^ Patricia Averill, Camp Songs, Folk Songs, 2014, p. 529, identifies the Appalachian folklorist by full name "Richard Thomas Chase" – from snippet view at Google Books, 2016-09-10.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Richard Chase at Library of Congress, with 23 library catalog records
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