Noun
folklorist (plural folklorists)
A person who studies or collects folklore
After this incident, his wife Mabel demanded that they leave Washington. citation main During Morton's brief residency at the Music Box, the folklorist Alan Lomax heard the pianist playing in the bar. Source: Internet
By the 1870s, Republican propagandists were attempting to prohibit samba on the pretext that folklorist dances shamed Brazil's national image. Source: Internet
American folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax visited Nevis in 1962 in order to conduct long-term research into the black folk culture of the island. Source: Internet
Eddie Lenihan (b-1950), first author of Meeting the Other Crowd as well as writer of numerous other books, has a growing reputation as a modern Irish folklorist. Source: Internet
His spouse, Virginia Hymes, is also a sociolinguist and folklorist. Source: Internet
It was launched by the Association for Cultural Equity, founded by one of the genuine heroes of American folk music, the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax. Source: Internet