LEADER 02628nam 2200469 450 001 9910793889303321 005 20191026112017.0 010 $a0-252-05145-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000009375166 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5906774 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002140491 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009375166 100 $a20200511e20202019 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDirty jokes and bawdy songs $ethe uncensored life of Gershon Legman /$fSusan G. Davis$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aUrbana :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) 225 1 $aFolklore studies in a multicultural world 225 1 $aIllinois scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a0-252-04261-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe stranger -- Sex researcher -- Kinsey's bibliographer -- Love & death -- Neurotica -- Advanced studies in folklore -- "The ballad" and The horn book -- The key to the fields -- The hell drawer -- Under Mt. Cheiron. 330 8 $aCollector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman's prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden. Susan G. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share what he found in civilization's secret libraries. Self-taught and fiercely unaffiliated, Legman collected the risque on street corners and in theaters and dug it out of little-known archives. If the sexual humour he uncovered often used laughter to disguise hostility and fear, he still believed it indispensable to the human experience. Davis reveals Legman in all his prickly, provocative complexity as an outrageous nonconformist thundering at a wrong-headed world. 410 0$aFolklore studies in a multicultural world. 410 0$aIllinois scholarship online. 606 $aFolklorists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aSex$xFolklore$xResearch$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aFolklorists 615 0$aSex$xFolklore$xResearch$xHistory 676 $a398.2092 700 $aDavis$b Susan G.$f1953-$0273923 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793889303321 996 $aDirty jokes and bawdy songs$93753840 997 $aUNINA