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Folklore matters : incursions in the field, 1965-2021 / Bruce Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Bruce, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- Folklore--Fieldwork--United States.
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Genre:
- Folk literature
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Getting Here
- Scenes
- Prison Folklore
- In the Valley of the Shadows
- In the Arctic with Malaurie
- Outside the Law
- From In the Life
- From A Thief’s Primer
- The Folksong Revival
- Skip James
- Liner Notes
- Black Studies
- The Glory Songs of the Lord
- The Other Kind of Doctor
- Foreword to Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
- Introduction to The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
- Prison Worksongs
- What Happened to Jody
- The Afro-American Toast and Worksong
- People
- Benjamin A. Botkin (1901–1975)
- Remembering Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915–July 19, 2002)
- Legman
- In Prison with Pete Seeger
- The Folklore Business
- Things That from a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
- Folkloristics
- Arctic Silence
- “Only the Sailor Knows the Archipelago”
- From the Editor
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438496177
- 1438496176
- OCLC:
- 1419062536
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