Access is granted in accordance with the
Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.
Gift of David Azzolina, August, 1991.
The Henry H. Glassie Papers consist almost solely of manuscripts.
They have been arranged in the order of handwritten drafts, typescript,
galley proof, and page proof.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Henry H. Glassie was born in Washington, D. C., in 1941. He earned
his Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. He
began his career at the Pennsylvania State University, where he taught
from 1969 to 1970. For the following six years he taught at Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana, before coming back to the University
of Pennsylvania as a faculty member of the Department of Folklore and
Folklife. He served as department chairman from 1976 to 1980, as graduate
chair from 1985 to 1987, and finally, as undergraduate chair from 1987
to 1988. In 1988 he returned to Indiana University, where he has remained
since.
From 1968 to 1991, Glassie published over a dozen of books, mostly
studies on American folklore and Irish folklore, and one on contemporary
Turkish traditional art. In addition, he wrote numerous articles, pamphlets
and book reviews. His academic interests have also included serving
on the editorial boards of many folklore journals and publishing houses.
He has been associated with a large number of folklore or other academic
societies, among them the American Folklore Society, for which he served
as president from 1988 to 1990. Active in public speaking, Glassie averages
some ten speaking engagements each year, both nationally and internationally.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection consists of manuscripts of two works, Passing
the Time in Ballymenone (1982) and Irish Folk History
(1982). Passing the Time in Ballymenone is composed of
ten parts which total thirty-three chapters, in addition to front material,
end notes, and information sources. The manuscripts comprise material
in handwritten form, typed form, galley proof, and page proof. There
are two versions each of typescripts, galley proofs, and page proofs,
which may provide insight on changes in the development of the author's
conceptualization. For Irish Folk History, there are handwritten
drafts, one typescript, and galley proofs; the handwritten manuscript,
however, contains only the front material, one chapter-"The Flag
that Floats Above Us", and the end notes.
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