A PREFATORY NOTE
This volume is essentially, of course, a reissue of the special issue, number 328, of the Journal of American Folklore.
[by William Hugh Jansen, series editor]

FOREWORD
The articles in this issue of the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE are the result of a symposium on "The Urban Experience and Folk Tradition" held at Wayne State University, May 20-21, 1968, attended by a number of scholars interested in the ways the urban experience affects folk tradition and in avenues through which folklore studies might contribute to the understanding and solution of urban problems.