Kenneth Goldstein (decd)

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:16:28 +0000

Those interested in British folklore and folksong studies will be saddened to
learn of the death of Professor Kenneth S. Goldstein, who served as chair of
the Folklore Department at University of Pennsylvania and at Memorial
University of Newfoundland. In the 1950s, prior to becoming an academic
folklorist, he produced records of British, Irish, and American traditional
singers for Riverside and for Prestige-Scottish ballad-singer Jeanie Robertson
and Irish piper Seamus Ennis to name but two. Books include _A Guide for
Fieldworkers in Folklore_ (1964) and _Folklore Performance and Communication_
(1975), and many articles on the topics of ballad and folksong and British
folklore studies. Upon my return from the anthropology meetings, I will put
together a bibliography to post to Ballad-L and to this list, if members would
be interested.

Kenny is certainly one of the reasons that I got into folklore, and he
will be sorely missed.

Marge Steiner
msteiner@ucs.indiana.edu

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