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D. K. Wilgus was born on 1 December, 1918. Discover D. K. Wilgus's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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D. K. Wilgus Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Between 1971 and 1972, Wilgus served as President of the American Folklore Society (AFS). His Presidential lecture was titled 'The Text is the Thing' and has been described as "a lively response to the [then] current fashion in the field for performance studies".
Wilgus also served as Vice-President of the AFS, Secretary-Treasurer of the Kentucky Folklore Society and President of the California Folklore Society. He also edited the journal of the California Folklore Society, Western Folklore, from 1970 to 1975.
Wilgus moved to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963. At UCLA he was Professor of Music and English at from 1963 until his death in 1989. At the University, together with his colleague Wayland D. Hand, Wilgus established the discipline of Folklore Studies. Wilgus was the first Chair of the Folklore & Mythology Program at UCLA, a post he held from the its founding in 1965 until 1982.
In 1955 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and popular culture.
Wilgus's M.A. thesis has been cited as "the first academic study of commercially recorded country music". His doctoral dissertation, given in 1954 was awarded the 1956 Chicago Folklore Prize. It formed the basis for his Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898 (1959), which was described in the 1990s as "still the definitive work on the subject".
Wilgus worked as an administrator at Purdue University (1941–1942) and served in the U.S. Army 1942–1945. From 1950 to 1963 he taught at Western Kentucky State College, as Associate Professor and, from 1961, full professor. In 1955, Wilgus founded the Kentucky Folklore Record, which he edited until 1961.
Donald Knight Wilgus (1 December 1918 – 25 December 1989) was an American folksong scholar and academic, most recognised for chronicling 'Hillbilly', Blues Music and Irish-American song and his contribution to Ballad scholarship.
Wilgus was born on 1 December 1918 at West Mansfield, Logan County, Ohio and attended East High School (Columbus, Ohio) and obtained his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio State University.
