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Title	Richard Reuss interview;
Access	Not available online - held remotely at Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory;
Source URL	Original interview: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=ohrc070&chunk.id=d1e3760&startDoc=1 . This item is only available in a cassette audio format or a paper transcript. It is currently not available in digital format.
What is in this collection?	Transcripts Sound recordings Interviews Oral histories
Description	This interview is included in the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. In this interview, Richard Reuss discusses his involvement with the Indiana University Folklore Institute. He originally became interested in folklore through the folksong revival and decided to attend IU in the mid nineteen-sixties to earn a PhD. Reuss discusses the solidarity of the student body. He talks about various graduate assistantships that were available to students at the time. Reuss spends most of the interview discussing his interactions with and impressions of Stith Thompson and Richard Dorson. Reuss feels that Thompson left a "long shadow" for Dorson to come out of. He cites Dorson's motivation as one of the reasons that the Folklore Institute is well-known. Reuss discusses the "four Ps" of promoting a new academic discipline: performance, publish, propaganda and power. He then relates the four Ps to the steps Dorson took to promote the study of folklore. Finally Reuss reflects on Dorson's influence on his own studies in folklore and tells a few anecdotes that characterize Dorson's personality. This collection is part of the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 collection which is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. It consists of: 55 pages, 2 cassettes (1 7/8 ips, 1 hour 44 minutes), and an index. This collection is closed until 2015 except to authorized project personnel. The IU Folklore Institute, 1987 collection deals with the beginning, the building, and the growth of the Indiana University (IU) Folklore Institute into an internationally recognized program. The interviewees are mostly students and/or faculty of the folklore program from the 1940s to the 1980s. They discuss those who most influenced and impacted the institute, namely Stith Thompson and Richard M. Dorson. They share their memories and experiences of the time they spent, or continue to spend, in the IU Folklore Institute.
Where can I find the original?	This collection is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory under the call number 87-007. Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. ;
Original Date	October 18-19, 1985
Interviewee	Reuss, Richard A.;
Interviewer	Harrah-Conforth, Jeanne, 1954-
Other Contributors	Harrah-Johnson, Jeanne, 1954-;
Place	Indiana University
This collection is part of the	Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection, available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
Subject-LCSH	Dégh, Linda Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981 Dundes, Alan Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 Richmond, W. Edson (Winthrop Edson), 1916-1994 Roberts, Warren E. (Warren Everett), 1924- Stekert, Ellen Jane, 1935- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975 Green, Archie Greenway, John Hickerson, Joseph Charles, 1935- Seeger, Charles Travers, Mary Wigginton, Elliot Presidents--Assassination--United States Kennedy, John F.
Subject-Keyword	Fakelore Folksong revival Graduate assistantships Urban folklore
Geographic Locations discussed	Bloomington (Ind.) Indiana University
Time periods covered	1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989
Language	eng
Publisher	Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory;
Rights	Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift signed by the interviewee. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of an interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not yet exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Tapes may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it. Because our interviewees edit their transcripts, the transcript (if one exists) is the only version of the interview that may be quoted for publication. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as scholars fully cite any Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's names, and page(s). Please see http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/copycost.html for more details.
Digital Collection	Collecting Memories - Oral Histories of American Folklorists
Type	Sound Text
Search Date	1985-10-18; 1985-10-19
Identifier	CM-IU033

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