If you know of any photocopy-lore and fax-lore, that you would like to contribute please contact Paul Smith (email), Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X8.
PHOTOCOPY-LORE AND FAX-LORE: A GUIDE
Paul Smith, Department of Folklore, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St John's,
Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X8.
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INTRODUCTION
The earliest publications incorporating examples of
photocopy-lore appeared in the U.S.A.
in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the first specific study of the
genre was Mac E. Barrick's,
"The Typescript Broadside" (1972). This article was followed by
numerous short essays -
usually focusing on a single or related group of sheets. It was not
until 1975 that the first
book-length study/collection, written by Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter,
was published. This
was shortly followed by a volume of texts from Orr and Preston
(1976) . The next few years
saw a sprinkling of articles from both sides of the Atlantic.
However, since the late 1970s
there appears to have been a decline of interest in photocopy-lore
in North America. This
has been compensated for by an increase in the publication of both
academic studies and
popular collections in Europe and Australia.
Primarily, this Bibliography comprises items which have
identified or discussed Photocopy-
Lore per se - the majority being presented from a folkloristic
perspective. However, also
included are a number of "popular" collections where the author has
presented a large
quantity of material in a form recognisable as Photocopy-Lore (see
for example, Fagan
1985; Norris 1984; Oakes 1985). As a consequence, the countless
singular exemplar texts
which are to be found in magazines, joke books, and the like, have
not been included in this
present bibliography.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Alan Mays of the
Heindel Library at Penn
State University in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who kindly forwarded a
copy of his Xeroxlore
Bibliography. This provided a number of new references and also
reminded me of
several items I was so familiar with that I had "forgotten" that
they discussed photocopylore.
At present I am working on An Annotated Bibliography of
Photocopy-Lore and a collection
of essays on this topic. If, by any chance, you know of other
published items, please let me
know, as I am constantly attempting to revise this listing.