Alan Lomax's Journey to The Land Where the Blues Began
Patrick B. Mullen
Sunday, 10 Nov 2002 at 2:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Patrick B. Mullen is a folklorist in the English Department at Ohio State University. He is the former Director of the Center for Folklore Studies at OSU and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. He is the author of I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast, Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories and the Elderly, co-author of Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition, and co-editor of Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African American Folklore. He is currently finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled "The Man Who Adores the Negro": Race and American Folklore, a study of white folklorists' representations of African Americans as folk.
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