![]() ![]() After blatant examples of plagiarism were brought out in the trial of 1971, Haley and Courlander settled out of court to the tune of about $650,000. District Court of the Southern District of New York to be the model for Alex Haley’s Roots. Among his seven published novels is The African (1967), which was proven by the U.S. In addition to his monumental contribution to field recording, he wrote several books that included transcribed stories and analytical studies of particular cultures with focus on religion, folklore, music and dance. ![]() ![]() Courlander charged Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, with plagiarism. He wrote more than 40 books, including studies of Hopi traditions, the Ashanti of Ghana, Yoruba gods, and Haitian voodoo. In that span of time, he produced around fifty albums on Folkways and made the first published recordings of countless musical traditions. Harold Courlander (190896) was a noted novelist, folklorist and journalist, specializing in African and African American cultures. As a tune collector, he was especially active from 1947 to 1960, when he served as editor of the Ethnic Folkways Library. Inspired by his travels and fieldwork, he mostly wrote about African, African-American, Caribbean (especially Haitian), European, Southeast Asian (especially Indonesian), and Native American cultures. After attending the University of Michigan and Columbia and working various jobs that appealed to his interest in writing, travel, and world cultures, he became a world-renown writer of both fiction and non-fiction. At age six, Indianapolis-native Harold Courlander moved with his family to Detroit, where he grew up in a multi-cultural environment. March 15, 1996) – Anthropologist, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, writer, and novelist. ![]()
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