Folklore Matters
Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2024
388 pages
978-1-4384-9617-7 (ISBN)
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Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
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Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at University at Buffalo. He is author or editor of more than forty books, including The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories and Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction: Getting Here
Part I: Scenes
1. Prison Folklore
2. In the Valley of the Shadows
3. In the Arctic with Malaurie
Part II: Outside the Law
4. From In the Life
5. From A Thief 's Primer
Part III: The Folksong Revival
6. The Folksong Revival
7. Skip James: "Skippy been places."
8. Liner Notes: Phil Ochs
Part IV: Black Studies
9. The Glory Songs of the Lord
10. The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine
11. Foreword to Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
12. Introduction to The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
13. Prison Worksongs: The Composer in Negatives
14. What Happened to Jody
15. The Afro-American Toast and Worksong: Two Dead Genres
Part V: People
16. Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975)
17. Remembering Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915-July 19, 2002)
18. Legman: The King of X700
19. In Prison with Pete Seeger
Part VI: The Folklore Business
20. Things That from a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
21. Folkloristics
22. Arctic Silence: Icy Terror in the Heart of the Smithsonian
23. "Only the Sailor Knows the Archipelago"
24. From the Editor: The Humanities at Risk
25. From the Editor: Dead Soldiers and the Arctic Night
Index
Part I: Scenes
1. Prison Folklore
2. In the Valley of the Shadows
3. In the Arctic with Malaurie
Part II: Outside the Law
4. From In the Life
5. From A Thief 's Primer
Part III: The Folksong Revival
6. The Folksong Revival
7. Skip James: "Skippy been places."
8. Liner Notes: Phil Ochs
Part IV: Black Studies
9. The Glory Songs of the Lord
10. The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine
11. Foreword to Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
12. Introduction to The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
13. Prison Worksongs: The Composer in Negatives
14. What Happened to Jody
15. The Afro-American Toast and Worksong: Two Dead Genres
Part V: People
16. Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975)
17. Remembering Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915-July 19, 2002)
18. Legman: The King of X700
19. In Prison with Pete Seeger
Part VI: The Folklore Business
20. Things That from a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
21. Folkloristics
22. Arctic Silence: Icy Terror in the Heart of the Smithsonian
23. "Only the Sailor Knows the Archipelago"
24. From the Editor: The Humanities at Risk
25. From the Editor: Dead Soldiers and the Arctic Night
Index
