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Books on: american folklore

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American Folklore and the Mass Media

Book by Linda Dégh; Indiana University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Folklore--United States, Mass Media--United States, Popular Culture--United States

Collections: Entire Library

American Folklore and the Mass Media F O L K L O R E T O D A Y Linda Degh, General Editor AMERICAN FOLKLORE AND THE MASS MEDIA Linda Degh...Publication Data Degh, Linda. American folklore and the mass media / Linda Degh...
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Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

Book by William M. Clements; Swallow Press, 1986

Subjects:

Folklore--North America, Indians Of North America--Folklore

Collections: History, Entire Library

Native American Folklore -ii- Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals William M. Clements...of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Native American folklore in nineteenth-century periodicals. Includes bibliographies...
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Our Living Traditions: An Introduction to American Folklore

Book by Tristram Potter Coffin; Basic Books, 1968

Subjects:

Folklore--United States, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...TRADITIONS An Introduction to American Folklore Edited by TRISTRAM POTTER...me to coordinate a series on American folklore, I was delighted. I saw a...reviewing Dick Dorsons American Folklore called the field "the most...
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Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

Book by Francis Edward Abernethy; University of North Texas Press, 1996

Subjects:

African Americans--Texas--Folklore, African Americans--Texas--Social Life And Customs, Folklore--Texas

Collections: Entire Library

Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in ...
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Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore, such as J. Mason Brewer; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.
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Studies in Italian American Folklore

Book by Luisa Del Giudice; Utah State University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Italian Americans--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

STUDIES IN ITALIAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE STUDIES IN ITALIAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE Edited by LUISA DEL GIUDICE Utah...rights reserved A Publication of the American Folklore Society, New Series Patrick B. Mullen...

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Journal Articles on: american folklore

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The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West

Journal article by J.V. Powell; Folklore, Vol. 116, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West. by J.V...The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West. By Barre Toelken...served as president of the American Folklore Society (1977-8) and on the...
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Folklore in the Making B. A. Botkin

Journal article by Jerrold Hirsch; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 100, 1987

Subjects:

Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...an approach to the study of American folklore that took into account the...important part of the history of American folklore studies and still speaks to...significant discussions about American folklore, literature, and culture...
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Folklore in the Making B. A. Botkin

Journal article by Jerrold Hirsch; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 100, 1987

Subjects:

Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...an approach to the study of American folklore that took into account the...important part of the history of American folklore studies and still speaks to...significant discussions about American folklore, literature, and culture...
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The Arts, Artifacts, and Artifices of Identity

Journal article by Elliott Oring; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 107, 1994

Subjects:

Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...an essay in the Journal of American Folklore , Richard Baumans "Differential...1993 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, seven sessions employed...Los Angeles Journal of American Folklore 107(424):211-247. Copyright...
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Erotic Folksongs and Ballads An International Bibliography

Journal article by G. Legman; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 103, 1990

Subjects:

Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...Pisspot Pete. Journal of American Folklore 100: 191-199. Compare: LEGMAN...BARRICK, Mac E. 1987 . German-American Folklore. Little Rock, Ark.: August...Marching to Vietnam. Journal of American Folklore 102:424-441. Outstand ingly...

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Magazine Articles on: american folklore

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Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music

Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Nation, Vol. 253, October 21, 1991

Subjects:

Sound recordings, Sound recordings--Sound recording reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music. by Gene Santoro...own right; his five-album series Roots and Folklore. Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music (Black Saint/ Gramavision) was...
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The Food and Folklore of a Mexican State

Magazine article by Habeeb Salloum; Contemporary Review, Vol. 270, June 1997

Subjects:

Cookery, Mexican--Appreciation, Oaxaca, Mexico--Food and nutrition

Collections: Entire Library

...in its food, Oaxaca reflects Mexican folklore at its best. For years, I had been enthralled...audience - mostly to tourists. Emilio, an American visitor sitting beside me, caught a hand-carved...stone structure, situated near the Pan-American Highway on the exact spot, overlooking...
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Defiant Folklorist of the Forgotten: Bolivia's Rebellious Antonio Paredes-Candia Has Devoted His Entire Life to Recording and Sharing His Country's Popular Culture

Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, November 2001

Subjects:

Bolivia--Social aspects, Folklore--Publishing, Popular culture--Portrayals, depictions, etc., South American native peoples--Bolivia

Collections: Entire Library

...Paredes Candia lists some of the Latin American authors he admires: Gabriel Garcia...working on a book about the tradition and folklore of banquets in Bolivia and another about animals in Bolivian folklore. Will he ever exhaust the possible...
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Celtic Myths: Celtic History? Simon Young Reveals the Limitations of Oral Legends as Historical Sources

Magazine article by Simon Young; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002

Subjects:

Celtic literature--Analysis, Celts--History, Folklore and history--Analysis, History--Sources, Legends--Analysis, Literature and history--Analysis, Medievalism--Study and teaching, Oral history--Analysis

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...to the west in subsequent centuries. They eventually arrived in Britain with their legends and these legends survived in the folklore of Wales where Greece became Ireland. When Koch first published his article in 1990, Celticists were accustomed to looking...
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Santa Fe Report: The Pulse of Nature

Magazine article by Janet Eigner; Dance Magazine, Vol. 79, May 2005

Subjects:

Dance companies--Speeches, lectures and essays, Ethnic folklore--Performances, Ethnic folklore--Study and teaching

Collections: Entire Library

...from its tricultural traditions--Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo. In addition, the...different aspect of Spanish and Central American dance. Benitezs work is mainly dark...life itself. Tangen blends her Native American heritage with ballet, modern, and hip...

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Newspaper Articles on: american folklore

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Blue as the Grass; BILLY KENNEDY Reports on the Rich Musical Traditions Transported across the Atlantic by 18th Century Ulster-Scots Immigrants - Music That Has Now Become Part of American Folklore

Newspaper article by Billy Kennedy; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), May 5, 1999

Subjects:

Kentucky

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Music That Has Now Become Part of American Folklore. by Billy Kennedy...became established with the wider American public in the 1940s when the late...become a national celebrity in American country music. He was of Scots-Irish...
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Did the Underground Railroad Stop Here? Folklore Suggests So, but Historians Struggle to Prove It

Newspaper article by Tara Malone; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...author of the book "Elgins Black History." And facts, not folklore, experts say, must drive efforts to preserve the Underground...schools social studies department. "Its had a huge impact on American history." "Certainly now its part of the curriculum," said...
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FACT OR FICTION? Folklore: (From Left) Braddock, Foot, Mandelson, Prescott, Hague and Tebbit

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...metropolitan tastes and ignoranceof working-class life. But he never said it. The mistake seems to have been made by a young American woman student who washelping Labour at a by-election. She, of course, had never seen mushy peas.Neil Kinnock claims to have...
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Scots-Irish Heroes of the Wild West; Indian Fighters Enjoy a Celebrated Place in the Folklore of the American Frontier. BILLY KENNEDY Looks Back on the Daring Exploits of Three Such Heroes - "KIT" CARSON, ROBERT CAMPBELL and "BIG FOOT" WALLACE

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 22, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Enjoy a Celebrated Place in the Folklore of the American Frontier. BILLY KENNEDY Looks...legendary in the rapid expansion of American interests in the southern and...lived to fight in the Mexican-American War, and later joined the Texas...
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For the Love of George; Mike Love Helped Establish a New Wave of Music with the Beach Boys in the Sixties and Confides in Lew Baxter That the Surf's Still Runningfast

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 13, 2003

Subjects:

Harrison, George, Lennon, John, McCartney, Paul, Wilson, Brian (American musician)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...by giving them a wee telephone tinkle of welcome. There are folklore tidings that Paul McCartney either produced or sang on one...Up there high in the clear mountain air - he likens it to an American Switzerland - Mike is busy working on a new collection of songs...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american folklore

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Folklore

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...material (e.g., in the United States the American Folklore Society publishes the Journal of American Folklore ). For further information, see...of the World (1971); D. Emrich, Folklore on the American Land (1972); R. M. Dorson, ed...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...anthologies in translation, see H. de Onis, ed., The Golden Land: An Anthology of Latin American Folklore in Literature (1961); W. K. Jones, ed., Spanish American Literature in Translation: A Selection of Poetry, Fiction and Drama Since 1888 (1963...
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Native American Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...See F. Densmore, The American Indians and Their Music (rev. ed. 1936); C. Kaywood, A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong (1951); C. Hofman, American Indians Sing (1967); and many books by F. Densmore on music of individual...
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Astor, William Backhouse , 1829–92, American Financier and Sportsman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1829 92, American financier and sportsman 1829 92, American financier and sportsman, b. New York City. The son of William...Ward McAlister, she became famous as the Mrs. Astor of modern folklore, queen of New York City societys legendary Four Hundred. Their...
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Gremlin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

GREMLIN in American folklore, malicious, airborne supernatural being. Gremlins were first heard of during World War II as creatures responsible for unexplainable...

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