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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163546303321

Autore

Abernethy Francis E

Titolo

Between the cracks of history / Francis Edward Abernethy, editor ; Carolyn Fiedler Satterwhite, assistant editor ; illustrations by Cynthia Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of North Texas Press, 1997

Denton, Tex. : , : University of North Texas Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-585-29214-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 284 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; ; 55

Altri autori (Persone)

SatterwhiteCarolyn Fiedler

AbernethyFrancis Edward

Disciplina

398/.09764

Soggetti

Folklore - Study and teaching

Folklore

Folklore - Étude et enseignement

Folklore - Texas

Folk literature

Folklore

Texas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between the cracks of history -- Classroom definitions of folklore / F.E. Abernethy -- Defining folklore for my students / Joyce Roach -- Folklore and cinema / Jim Harris -- Toward a definition of folk culture / Joe S. Graham -- Folklore fieldwork on the Internet : some ethical and practical considerations / Jan Roush -- Beginning within : teaching folklore the easy way / Rhett Rushing -- The honored dead : the ritual of police burial / Phyllis Bridges -- Meaner than Hell! / Kenneth W. Davis -- Gang graffiti / Ken Untiedt -- Gideon Lincecum, "Killie Krankie," and fiddling in early Texas / Chris Goertzen -- The bluebird mare from Sterling City / Patrick Dearen -- The night the stars fell / Robert J. Duncan -- Rail tales : some are true / Charlie Oden -- Dance halls of East Texas : from oral history / Dennis Read and Bobby Nieman



-- The oil field camp / James Winfrey -- Noises in the attic : adventures of some Texas ghosts / Allan Turner and Richard Stewart -- Repo man / John Lightfoot -- Tex-Mex dialect, or, Gidget goes to Acuna / Rebecca Cornell -- Punching sticks, flannel wrapped bricks, and pink powder purgatives : spring rituals / Ernestine Sewell Linck -- When Harley Sadler's tent show came to town / J.G. Pinkerton -- Eating over the sink and other marital strategies / James Ward Lee.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation