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Mother wit from the laughing barrel : readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore / [edited by] Alan Dundes.
Van Pelt Library GR111.A47 M68 1990
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LIBRA GR111.A47 M68 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 680 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1990]
- Summary:
- Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black folk culture, here are more than sixty entertaining and informative articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience -- Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, and many others.
- Drawn out of the deep, rich well of Afro-American culture, these essays convey the import of the black folk experience for all Americans.
- Contents:
- Folk & Lore 1
- Race Pride & Folklore / Newbell Niles Puckett 3
- As Crinkly as Yours / Eldridge Cleaver 9
- My People! My People! / Zora Neale Hurston 22
- The Negro Folk Cult / Harold Preece 34
- Backgrounds of Folklore in Negro Literature / Sterling A. Brown 39
- The Negro Writer in America: An Exchange 45
- I. The Folk Tradition / Stanley Edgar Hyman 46
- II. Change The Joke And Slip The Yoke / Ralph Ellison 56
- On Origins 65
- The Negro-White Spiritual / D. K. Wilgus 67
- African Influence on the Music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman 81
- Residual African Elements in the Blues / Janheinz Jahn 95
- Jazz Choreology / Gertude P. Kurath, Nadia Chilkovsky 104
- African Tales Among the North American Indians / Alan Dundes 114
- Problems Confronting the Investigator of Gullah / Lorenzo D. Turner 126
- Americanisms That May Once Have Been Africanisms / David Dalby 136
- Folk Speech 141
- Designations for Colored Folk / H. L. Mencken 142
- Names of American Negro Slaves / Newbell Niles Puckett 156
- On the Grammar of Afro-American Naming Practices / J. L. Dillard 175
- Black Ulysses in Camp / Howard W. Odum 182
- Dialogues of the Old & the New Porter / A. Philip Randolph 199
- The Technique of Jive / Dan Burley 206
- Story in Harlem Slang / Zora Neale Hurston 222
- The Language of Soul / Claude Brown 230
- Hidden Language: Ghetto Children Know What They're Talking About / John M. Brewer 238
- Verbal Art 245
- Old-Time Negro Proverbs / J. Mason Brewer 246
- Old-Time Courtship Conversation / Frank D. Banks, Portia Smiley 251
- Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues / Guy B. Johnson 258
- I Can Peep Through Muddy Water & Spy Dry Land: Boasts in the Blues / Mimi Clar Melnick 267
- The Dozens: Dialectic of Insult / John Dollard 277
- Playing the Dozens / Roger D. Abrahams 295
- Signifying / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan 310
- Toasts / William Labov, Paul Cohen, Clarence Robins, John Lewis 329
- Meet "Mr. Franklin": An Example of Usage / Nathan, Joanne Kantrowitz 348
- Street Smarts / H. Rap Brown 353
- Folk Belief 357
- Conjuring & Conjure-Doctors / Leonora Herron, Alice M. Bacon 359
- Superstitions & Folklore of the South / Charles W. Chesnutt 369
- Braziel Robinson Possessed of Two Spirits / Roland Steiner 377
- Mojo / Ruth Bass 380
- The Little Man / Ruth Bass 388
- The Human Hand Threat / A. Philip Randolph 397
- Contemporary Patterns of Malign Occultism Among Negroes in North Carolina / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. 402
- Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo & the Numbers Racket / George J. McCall 419
- Folk Music 429
- The Romance of the Negro Folk Cry in America / Willis Laurence James 430
- Negro "Shouts" from Georgia / Robert Winslow Gordon 445
- The Social Implications of the Negro Spiritual / John Lovell, Jr. 452
- Follow the Drinking Gourd / H. B. Parks 465
- I Got the Blues / Alan Lomax 469
- Protest and Irony in Negro Folksong / Russel Ames 487
- Social Influences on Jazz Style: Chicago, 1920-30 / Chadwick Hansen 501
- The Acculturation of the Delta Negro / Samuel C. Adams, Jr. 515
- Folk Narrative 523
- Uncle Remus & the Malevolent Rabbit / Bernard Wolfe 524
- High John de Conquer / Zora Neale Hurston 541
- Negro Humor: John & Old Marster / Harry Oster 549
- The Steel Drivin' Man / Leon R. Harris 561
- The Career of "John Henry" / Richard M. Dorson 568
- Ba-ad Nigger / H. C. Brearley 578
- The Ghostly Legend of the Ku-Klux Klan / H. Grady McWhiney, Francis B. Simkins 586
- Caddy Buffers: Legends of a Middle-Class Negro Family in Philadelphia / Kathryn L. Morgan 595
- Folk Humor 611
- Frontiers of Humor: American Vernacular Dance / Marshall Stearns, Jean Stearns 613
- Humor as a Technique in Race Conflict / John H. Burma 620
- Jokes Among Southern Negroes: The Revelation of Conflict / Arthur J. Prange, Jr., M. M. Vitols 628
- Jokes Negroes Tell on Themselves / Langston Hughes 637
- Genital Superiority in Oakland Negro Folklore: A Theme / Neil A. Eddington 642
- Jokes and Black Consciousness: A Collection with Interviews / Paulette Cross 649.
- Notes:
- A collection of essays reprinted from 1973 to 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0878054782
- OCLC:
- 21972061
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