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	The Last Folk Hero book review - The Outsider Art Pages
		He is generous with scorn, whether directed at rich Atlanta art patrons, elite museum curators or the ordinary folk art tourists who flocked to the homes of Mose Tolliver, Jim Suddeth and many others through the 1980s and Ô90s.
		For one thing, by dismissing almost the entire universe of folk art collectors and dealers as self-serving, intellectually lazy exploiters, Dietz creates a seriously misleading context in which to evaluate Arnett's claims for his own ethical exceptionalism.
		Heroes become the less impressive the more they are pitted against mere straw men.
	www.interestingideas.com /out/Arnett.htm (1106 words)

	Hero -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Well-known heroes approach the (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) gods in status in some cultures.
		The Greek heroes were often the mythological characters who were the (A name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great) eponymous founders of Greek cities, states, and territories.
		These mythological heroes were not always role models or possessed of heroic virtue; many were (A person with great powers and abilities) demigods, the offspring of mortals and the (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) gods.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hero.htm (1849 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous (compare villain).
		These mythological heroes were not always role models or possessed of heroic virtue; many were demigods, the offspring of mortals and the gods.
		The age when heroes of this sort were active, and where the stories of Greek mythology were set, is frequently known as the "heroic age"; the heroic age ends shortly after the Trojan War is over and the legendary combatants have returned to home or exile.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hero (8070 words)

	Encyclopedia: Koba (folk hero) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Koba was a Georgian folk hero whose legend bears a resemblance to Robin Hood.
		Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend In many myths and folk tales, a hero is a man or woman (the latter often called a heroine), traditionally the protagonist of a story, legend or saga, who commonly possesses abilities or character far greater than that of a typical person, which...
		Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero, an outlaw who, in modern versions of the legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor (some would say from the tax collector to refund the taxpayer).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Koba-(folk-hero) (325 words)

	ipedia.com: Hero Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Einherjar, heroes chosen by the war god Odin to fight the titans at the end of the world
		Hero is also a Greek name, applying to several characters in mythology and fiction.
		Hero is a motorcycle brand manufactured in India by Hero Honda Motorcycles Ltd. Hero is the largest selling motorcycle in the World.
	www.ipedia.com /hero.html (648 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Folk hero
		In the late 1960s, he introduced folk music to youth culture at a time when it was the reserve of musicologists, and consequently had the wrath of the folk music fraternity visited upon him.
		British folk brought with it associations of Morris dancers and pubs with bread and dripping on the bar.
		Folk ballads provide the history of people traditionally without a voice.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,889914,00.html (856 words)

	portland imc - 2004.03.15 - Tre Arrow: Folk Hero of the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A young man, heroically standing by his morals, sacrificing a life of white male privilege to living in poverty, wearing second hand clothing, eating donated and dumpstered food to protect the heartland of America's forests.
		The folks of Oregon know that it is unabashedly the government who is destroying both the Salmon industry and forest industry with their horrid greed.
		Don't get me wrong, I think any movement needs heros and leaders, but that isn't the same thing as writing what amounts to downright worship of a man you've never met and assuming that all accusations against him are false because you like the stuff he did.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/03/282985.shtml (6327 words)

	Manitoba History: Paulet Paul: Métis or "House Indian" Folk-Hero?
		One perspective through which we may attempt to understand the nature of a society is examining the heroes and heroines whom a particular people would honour and whose feats they would emulate.
		It is particularly useful, in the light of an individual’s heroic achievements, to establish a sense of the more mundane patterns of his or her live.
		The basis of Paulet Paul’s heroic stature amongst the tripmen was his physical prowess.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/09/pauletpaul.shtml (4908 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		Indeed, folk music has traditionally served as an outlet for native discontent, often expressed in coded language (the boll weevil stands in for field hands, the farmer’s son is the government).
		Still, there is a great difference between the folk songs that circulated in Woody Guthrie’s day and the music he wrote; that is, the very fact that he wrote it.
		Folk music (including country, blues, and other vernacular styles) was supposed to be anonymous—a collective art passed along orally from singer to singer, generation to generation, sometimes culture to culture.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?040329crbo_books (1762 words)

	Attacking McDonald’s made French farmer José Bové a folk hero. Now he is taking on other multinationals
		Slightly built and clad in jeans and an old V-neck sweater, the middle-aged sheep farmer hardly cut a dash as we walked into a Chinese eatery in the drab Paris suburb of Bagnolet.
		A quick hush was followed by a buzz as the customers realised that they had a celebrity in their midst: José Bové, the scourge of McDonald’s and national hero in the struggle to save the Gallic soul from fast food and free trade.
		As unlikely as the soft-spoken 47-year-old seems as a glamour figure, it is not hard to see what lies behind his rise to folk hero.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/102500-01.htm (1948 words)

	Gadge Maharaj triggers a revolution in rural Maharashtra.
		A folk hero returns to inspire a rural revolution.
		Actually Maharashtra's beloved folk hero of recent times, Gadge Maharaj had died in 1956.
		Gadge Maharaj used to repeatedly declare, "it is the broom that made Gadge Baba." The millions of simple folk who still revere him, may make Maharashtra a different place yet - with that legendary broom in their hands.
	www.goodnewsindia.com /Pages/content/transitions/gmAbhiyan.html (1727 words)

	Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of a wealthy businessman, Burroughs was educated at private schools in Chicago, at the prestigious Philips Academy, Andover, Mass.
		one of the best-known and most durable figures of popular fiction, the hero of jungle adventures in nearly 30 novels and dozens of motion pictures.
		Hero of novels by U.S. novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan is an English nobleman's son abandoned in an African jungle and raised by a community of apes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9018222&ref=news0105 (707 words)

	CityBeat: Folk Hero (2002-01-03)
		But University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) theater grad Randy Harrison, whose character Justin Taylor was last seen being wheeled into the ER on a gurney, is keeping mum on the fate of his character.
		Justin was outed by his mother, disowned by his father, briefly ran away to New York and faced expulsion for heading a gay/straight alliance at his high school.
		That doesn't include the more gratuitous aspects of Queer as Folk -- such as when Justin had sex with a stranger in a bathroom stall while on a trip to the art museum with his own mother.
	www.citybeat.com /2002-01-03/tvradio.shtml (986 words)

	Folk Hero Sandwich
		Copies of the CD's Folk Hero Sandwich, released in December 2005, and Stonewall's Arm from 2004 can be ordered directly from Lee...
		In Folk Hero Sandwich, the right combination of time, musicianship, and bongwater has reached a perky, comfortable ripeness and comes at you like a streaker in the night.
		What I like about these songs are the scenic qualities that at first blush sound like sentimental folk homilies but then explode on the tongue into little novellas, with real characters doing what they do and singing their stories, and all you have to do is listen, because Nashville won't, but you can.
	www.folkherosandwich.com (414 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Symposium analyzes, celebrates 'thug'
		The occasion was an academic symposium titled "All Eyez on Me: Tupac Shakur and the Search for the Modern Folk Hero." It was co-sponsored by the Hiphop Archive, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the Program of Folklore and Mythology, and IKS University of Oslo, Norway.
		Shakur, a rapper and film actor, died in 1996 at the age of 25, the victim of a drive-by shooting outside a hotel in Las Vegas.
		Hearing Dyson's words, one wondered whether the heroes of Harvard's past whose images adorned the Thompson Room's walls were convinced of the heroism of this thug poet.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/04.24/11-hiphop.html (1173 words)

	The Australian: Fugitive alligator a folk hero (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Australian: Fugitive alligator a folk hero (archived)
		MORE than a week after a man-sized alligator stunned authorities by surfacing in a murky Los Angeles lake, the fugitive reptile has already become a folk hero in the gritty neighborhood where he continues to outwit wranglers and elude capture.
		Dozens of residents gathered on the shore of Lake Machado overnight, sitting in lawn chairs or scanning the water with binoculars as park rangers with nets waited for the 2 metre alligator to rise out of the muck.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,16312926%255E1702,00.html (390 words)

	The Washington Times : Folk hero's efforts still bearing fruit: School to plant Appleseed cuttings.(Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Start / T / The Washington Times / April 15, 1999 / Folk hero's efforts still bearing fruit: School to plant Appleseed cuttings.(Metropolitan Times)(District News)
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	static.highbeam.com /t/thewashingtontimes/april151999/folkheroseffortsstillbearingfruitschooltoplantappl/index.html (281 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Militias 'in retreat'
		To the right-wing movement, Mr Weaver continues to be a folk hero, but to organisations that monitor militia groups, he is a fading figure in a waning movement.
		Despite this, he says there is no evidence that any of his supporters are planning to avenge his death.
		"He will certainly be included in the pantheon of fallen Aryan heroes, but there is not a big hue and cry within the right-wing movements over his impending death," he says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1325330.stm (929 words)

	The Standard - Folk hero's new message is for bully-free schools - Metro Section
		The Standard - Folk hero's new message is for bully-free schools - Metro Section
		Folk hero's new message is for bully-free schools
		Bringing with him echoes of the pacifist movement of the 1960s, veteran American folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary is helping local schools promote playground harmony.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Metro/GD05Ak05.html (487 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - Anti-folk hero
		Turner said he is pleased by being compared to Bragg, whom he lists as his major influence alongside Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Counting Crows, the 1990s American country-tinged rock band whose albums he used to play along to when learning to play guitar.
		“This is the whole point about Billy Bragg and anti-folk, because the original point of folk music was that it was music for everybody, that would tell stories or pass on wisdom from one person to another.
		Pointing to his mix of folk and punk, Turner’s guitar is decorated with the motto “This Machine Kills Hippies,” a play on Woody Guthrie’s famous “This Machine Kills Fascists,” something that he describes as a “little joke.”
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=18318 (1240 words)

	On Grammy Night, an Elegy for A Folk Hero (washingtonpost.com)
		Word had spread quickly throughout the folk music community that Dave was in trouble: no health insurance, no savings.
		At the North East Regional Folk Alliance conference in the Poconos in mid-November, Sonny Ochs, sister of the late songwriter Phil Ochs, passed the hat (well, actually a water pitcher) at each meal, collecting over $2,000 for Dave.
		I know there are folk musicians all over the world -- and one person in particular who lives on Dave Van Ronk Street in Greenwich Village -- hoping this will be the day that Dave's secret wish finally comes true.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17228-2005Feb11.html (2101 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Wiltshire \| Folk hero letter found in archive
		A 40-year-old letter from singer-songwriter Paul Simon asking for work at a folk club in Swindon has been donated to the region's records office.
		The letter, which reveals Simon's fee was seven pounds, was part of the Swindon Folk Singers Club archive.
		Steve Hobbs, archivist for Wiltshire County Council, said: "It is rare to find such a comprehensive archive from a provincial folk club.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4206071.stm (293 words)

	The Evening Standard (London, England) : Well-deserving of the title folk hero; POP. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	static.elibrary.com /t/theeveningstandardlondonengland/march262002/welldeservingofthetitlefolkheropop/index.html (244 words)

	Calgary & Southern Alberta - The Farmer as Folk Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Calgary and Southern Alberta - The Farmer as Folk Hero
		It is, therefore, small wonder that turn-of-the-century Canadians should have accorded the homesteading family of the prairies heroic stature.
		Nor is it surprising that by the early 1900s Alberta's farm-oriented "booster" press should have elevated rural life to near mythical status, depicting the western farm as a self-reliant, family-oriented enterprise pitted against the impersonal evils of climate, the federal government and the CPR.
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/farmerfolk.html (451 words)

	ajc.com \| Opinion \| If guilty, Rudolph is not a folk hero but a terrorist \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If guilty, Rudolph is not a folk hero but a terrorist
		But eluding capture in the wilds of North Carolina doesn't make Rudolph a folk hero.
		If he is guilty, he is simply a coward unwilling to accept the consequences of his actions.
	www.ajc.com /opinion/content/opinion/0603/02eric.html (382 words)

	Guardian \| Not so secret life of a literary folk hero
		Not so secret life of a literary folk hero
		His story is made immortal by its understanding of the obstinate poetry of fantasies, and Mitty's determination to make the humdrum heroic.
		At the end Mitty spirals into a final daydream while waiting in the rain for his wife: "He stood up against the wall of the drugstore, smoking...
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4727207-103685,00.html (355 words)

	The State News - Movie negatively depicts Chicano folk hero - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As daring, acrobatic stunts are choreographed to deft and fanciful sword play, the plot rips open a romantic gusher of love, betrayal and revenge, as an older Zorro, played by the assiduous Anthony Hopkins, passes to a younger, cockier Antonio Banderas, the mark of the rebellious “
		By Chicano hero, I don’t mean that pseudo-Spanish, pulp-fiction character dubbed “Zorro” in 1919 by non-Latino police reporter Johnston McCulley (who wrote paperback novels on the side).
		Thus, for Americans of Mexican descent, 1998 should be a time of introspection, public discussion and spiritual healing, as we (Chicanos and Chicanas) acknowledge that what’s occurred in the past affects the present, and what we believe today eventually shapes our future.
	www.statenews.com /editionsfall98/101498/op_col2.html (814 words)

	FROM COP TO CROOK TO ICONIC FOLK HERO
		At one point, the audacious dude robs a bank, comes back the same day as the cop investigating the crime, is implicated by the teller, and magically manages to convince the teller and his fellow investigators to laugh it off by jokingly confessing.
		For Jane, one of the most frustrating things about making the movie was being a foreigner portraying a fascinating folk hero.
		They were ambivalent to having an American play their South African folk hero.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/22/PKG7S87DDA1.DTL (943 words)

	Queen City Soapbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ethan Hahn wonders how the grand jury could ignore the clear violation of the law in bringing a gun into a bar, while Brian Griffin sees a weak effort by Prosecutor Mike Allen behind the decision.
		Harold McKinney has become a folk hero, something that the Enquirer editorialized against, as if the Enquirer can decide who gets to be a folk hero or not.
		That's up to the folk, and the folks on the grand jury made an exception.
	queencity.blogspot.com /2003_05_18_QueenCity_archive.html (2217 words)

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