American Folklore Scholarship
Title | American Folklore Scholarship PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Levy Zumwalt |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1988-06-22 |
Genre | 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.
Great American Folklore
Title | Great American Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9780880299022 |
America's Folklorist
Title | America's Folklorist PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence R. Rodgers |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2014-10-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806186291 |
Folklorist, writer, editor, regionalist, cultural activist—Benjamin Albert Botkin (1901–1975) was an American intellectual who made a mark on the twentieth century, even though most people may be unaware of it. This book, the first to reevaluate the legacy of Botkin in the history of American culture, celebrates his centenary through a collection of writings that assess his influence on scholarship and the American scene. Through his work with the Federal Writers' Project during the New Deal, the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project, and the Archive of American Folksong, Botkin did more to collect and disseminate the nation's folk-cultural heritage than any other individual in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on Botkin's eclectic but interrelated concerns, work, and vision and offers a detailed sense of his life, milieu, influences, and long-term contributions. Just as Botkin boldly cut across the boundaries between high and low, popular and folk, this book brings together reflections that range from the historical to the philosophical to the disarmingly personal. One group of articles looks at his career and includes the first extended analysis of Botkin's poetry; another probes the fruitful relationships Botkin had with leading musicologists, composers, poets, and intellectuals of his day. This is also the first book to bring together a collection of Botkin's best-known writings, giving readers an opportunity to appreciate his wide-ranging mind and clear, often memorable prose. For Botkin, the blurring of art and science, literature and folklore was not just a philosophy but a way of life. This book reflects that life and invites fans and those new to Botkin to appraise his lasting contributions.
Handbook of American Folklore
Title | Handbook of American Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1986-02-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780253203731 |
Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.
American Folklore
Title | American Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Harold Brunvand |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 812 |
Release | 2006-05-24 |
Genre | 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
American Folklore and the Mass Media
Title | American Folklore and the Mass Media PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Dégh |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1994-02-22 |
Genre | 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
American Folklore
Title | American Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | 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.