Jackson Folklore Matters

Incursions in the Field, 1965–2021
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9617-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.