Folklife & Fieldwork
Title | Folklife & Fieldwork PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bartis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Folklore |
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Pinelands Folklife
Title | Pinelands Folklife PDF eBook |
Author | Rita Zorn Moonsammy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
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Looks at the Pinelands region of New Jersey, describes farming, glassmaking, charcoal burning, trapping, oystering, and clamming in the region, and discusses the local ecology.
Folklife Center News
Title | Folklife Center News PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN |
Remembering Slavery
Title | Remembering Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Favreau |
Publisher | New Press, The |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1620970449 |
The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America
Title | Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Bradunas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
The Music Division
Title | The Music Division PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress
Title | American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Lindahl |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 793 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317477235 |
This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material drawn from the September 11 Project. Included in this varied collection are over 200 tales organized in chapters by storyteller, tale type or region, and representing diverse American cultures, from Appalachia and the Midwest to Native American and Latino traditions. Each chapter begins by discussing the storytellers and their oral traditions before presenting and introducing each tale, making this collection accessible to high school students, general readers or scholars.