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IV: Accounts of Folk Performances in Specific Places IV: Accounts of Folk Performances in Specific Places Abrahams, Roger. "Charles Walters—West Indian Autolycus." Western Folklore Society 27 (1968): 77-95. ---. "The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization." Old Roots in the New World. Westport: Greenwood, 1977. 173-208. Abrahams, Roger D. "A Performance-Centered Approach to Gossip." Man 5 (1970): 290-301. ---. “A Rhetorical Theory of Folklore.” Journal of American Folklore 81 (1968): 143-156). ---. "British West Indian Drama and the 'Life Cycle' Problem." Folklore 81 (1970): 241-65. ---. "Christmas Mummings on Nevis." North Carolina Folklore Journal 21 (1973): 120-31. ---. "Joking: The Training of the Man of Words in Talking Broad." Rappin' and Stylin' Out: Communication in Urban Black America. Thomas Kochman, ed. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972. 215-40. ---. "Patterns of Performance in the British West Indies." 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