Great American Folklore
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780880299022
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780880299022
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135578788
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : Jane Polley
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This illustrated account presents an interesting history of folklore as well as a retelling of famous American legends.
Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253204721
"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1986-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253203731
Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.
Author : Amy L. Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590428682
A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.
Author : Linda Dégh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1994-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253116604
"This book shows how folklore -- magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants -- is still alive and well in the modern mass media.... contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." -- Journal of Communication "Dégh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media.... Highly recommended... " -- Choice "Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad, American Folklore and the Mass Media demonstrates how vital folklore remains, how often it absorbs -- rather than being absorbed by -- the most dramatic technological innovations and social realignments." -- Carl Lindahl "... all six essays are meaty and informative contributions to vital folkloric issues..." -- Contemporary Legend
Author : B. A. Botkin
Publisher : Globe Pequot Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2016-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493025350
Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers...besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders."
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
A survey of the entire field of America folklore-folkways jests, boasts, tall tales, ballads, and legendary heroes-from the era of colonization to the present age of mass culture.
Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610695682
A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.