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Poplore is wonderful. A very sensible new word; Bluestein's analysis makes sense. Two centuries ago the word 'folklore' made sense, describing the traditional culture of the peasant class, 90% of the population. In these industrial-technology ridden times, it's better to use a new word that to try to make an old one fit.--Pete Seeger The book's thesis and presentation are strong. Its important argument augments the push on the New Historicists and corrects a log of nonsense about the purity of the folk.--W. T. Lhamon, author of Deliberate Speed: The Origins of Style in the American 1950s

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Gene Bluestein is a folk performer and professor emeritus of English and American studies, California State University at Fresno. His books include The Voice of the Folk: Folklore and American Literary Theory, published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

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