Brunvand American Folklore

An Encyclopedia
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-135-57878-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 812 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunvand, Jan Harold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Selected Entries:
*Contemporary lore
*Bigfoot
*Gulf War
*Nuclear lore
*Rap
*Gay and lesbian lore
*Talking trash
*Truckers' folklore
*UFO lore
*Semiotic approach

Traditional areas
*Johnny Appleseed
*Monsters
*Friday the 13th
*Jersey Devil
*Tooth fairy
*Vampires
*World War I and II
*Witchcraft

Ethnic
*Baltic people in U.S.
*Basque Americans
*Corridos
*Coyote
*Dutch Americans
*Gypsies
*Korean Americans
*Kwanzaa
*Polish Americans

Performers
*Burl Ives
*Blind Lemon Jefferson
*Hudie Leadbelly Ledbetter
*Memphis Minnie
*Ma Rainey
*Pete Seeger
*Muddy Waters

Scholars
*Franz Boas
*Joseph Campbell
*Mary O. Eddy
*Aurelio Macedonia Espinosa
*Zora Neale Hurston
*George Lyman Kittredge
*Albert Bates Lord
*Milman Parry
*Charles M. Kinner

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Harold Brunvand, author of the standard text-book he Study of American Folklore, Third Edition (1986), is best known for his collections of urban legends, among them The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981), he Choking Doberman (1984), and Curses' Broiled Again!(1989). He has been a syndicated columnist and has appeared on national television.