Example sentences for: folkways

How can you use “folkways” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If we went off-post to school, we adjusted to Southern folkways, standing at football games for the "national anthem," as "Dixie" was called, even though we knew that our anthem was the one heard at the parade grounds on weekends.

  • His approach to folklore study was that of the established tradition of the times, which examined current customs, traditions, folkways, and folk narratives as survivals of an earlier civilization.

  • Moe Asch created Folkways and ran it for 38 years, until his death in 1986, releasing 2,200 records, including sides by Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie and artists from all over the globe playing everything from children's music to jazz.

  • Few people born after 1950 had heard of it, despite its remaining in print until Folkways Records dissolved when its owner, Moe Asch, died in the mid-1980s.

  • Sure, whiteness studies, which might include everything from the history of Irish laborers to the folkways of suburban mallrats, is open to abuse, and therefore to ridicule.


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