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American folklorist Not to be confused with the contemporary professor of literature Richard Volney Chase (1914–1962).
Richard Chase
BornRichard Thomas Chase
February 15 1904
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
DiedFebruary 2 1988 (aged 83)
EducationAntioch College
OccupationFolklorist
Known forAuthority on English-American literature, compiling of folk tales and game, primarily Appalachian

Richard Thomas Chase (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.

Biography

Career

Chase compiled and edited several books of folktales and folk games (especially Appalachian), including:

  • Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales (1948), ISBN 9780618346912
  • Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games (1949) and The Jack Tales
  • The Jack Tales: told by RM Ward and his kindred in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in the southern mountains; with three tales from Wise County, Virginia. ISBN 0395066948
  • "American Folk Tales and Songs: with Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie singing and Richard Chase Telling Tales" September 4, 1956
  • Old Songs and Singing Games ISBN 0486228797
  • The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus ISBN 0618154299
  • American Folktales and Songs and other examples of English-American traditions as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere in the United States. ISBN 0486226921
  • various spoken word recordings including Richard Chase Tells Three Grandfather Tales.

Personal life

Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama and graduated Antioch College in 1929. He lived in California from 1964 to 1975 and was a regular at the Southern Renaissance Pleasure Faire, created by Ron and Phyllis Patterson, in Ventura, California where is remembered for holding court under a large oak tree. He introduced English Country Dancing to the faire, bringing a group of his students from Claremont College. Chase had one daughter, Ann Gay Chase Applegate.

References

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  1. http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org
  2. Patricia Averill, Camp Songs, Folk Songs, 2014, p. 529, identifies the Appalachian folklorist by full name "Richard Thomas Chase" – from snippet view at Google Books, 2016-09-10.
  3. "Richard Thomas Chase (1904-1988) - Find a Grave". Find a Grave.
  4. Heiman, Ben. "Ben Heiman Folklore Collection". community.berea.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
     http://community.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/saa62.asp ?
  5. Harlson, Tina L. "Bibliography of Works by and about Richard Chase". AppLit: Bibliographies. Ferrum College (ferrum.edu). Retrieved 2014-06-25.

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