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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814130403321

Autore

Green Archie

Titolo

Torching the fink books and other essays on vernacular culture / / Archie Green ; foreword by Robert Cantwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2001

ISBN

979-88-908733-3-0

0-8078-7567-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 242 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

398/.0973

Soggetti

Folklore - United States

United States Social life and customs

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 (p. [217]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dutchman : an on-the-job etymology Hillbilly music : source and symbol Laborlore A folklorist's creed and a folksinger's gift Austin's cosmic cowboys : words in collision Tom Benton's folk depictions The archive's shores Stitching patchwork in public Remembering Jack Fitch, pile butt and artist, on Labor Day 1994 Kelly girl Torching the fink books Peter Tamony (1902-1985) Afterword. Looking back