Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880299022
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Great American Folklore
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880299022
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Great American Folklore
Author: Kemp P. BattlePublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385185554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Great American Folklore gathers together nearly three hundred of the most entertaining legends, tall tales, and ballads from America's distinctive oral heritage.
Great American Folklore
Author: Kemp P. BattlePublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Great American Folklore gathers together nearly three hundred of the most entertaining legends, tall tales, and ballads from America's distinctive oral heritage.
American Folklore and Legend
Author: Jane PolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This illustrated account presents an interesting history of folklore as well as a retelling of famous American legends.
Great American Folklore
Author: OutletFrom Sea to Shining Sea
Author: Amy L. CohnPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590428682
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.
Readings in American Folklore
Author: Jan Harold BrunvandPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393950298
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This book fills the long-felt need for an organized collection of scholarly studies in American folklore.
A Treasury of American Folklore
Author: B. A. BotkinPublisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 9781493025350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers...besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders."
The Great American Outlaw
Author: Frank Richard PrasselPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128429
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."
American Folk Tales and Songs
Author: Richard ChasePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486172880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Full of lively stories, jokes, and games for performance, the book also includes 40 songs with melody and guitar chords. Written by outstanding practicing folk performer. Includes 44 illustrations.