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Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780874830835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of jokes and stories from Appalachia dealing with such topics as animals, city folks, politicians, religion, and old age.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 2006-01-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780874835328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are 300 jokes and stories heard on porch swings, in barber shops, corner cafes, and beauty parlors, told by famous and common alike, with chapters on marriage, aging, work, education, politics, and sports. Celebrities, everyday folks, and students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky serve up a feast of jokes and stories from oral traditions.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-08-25
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0252099699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house. “What’s the matter, son?” “Why, Maw and Paw are up there fightin’.” “Who is your Paw, son?” “Well, that’s what they are fightin’ over.” Brimming with ballads, stories, riddles, tall tales, and great good humor, My Curious and Jocular Heroes pays homage to four people who guided and inspired Loyal Jones’s own study of Appalachian culture. His sharp-eyed portraits introduce a new generation to Bascom Lunsford, the pioneer behind the “memory collections” of song and story at Columbia University and the Library of Congress; the Sorbonne-educated collector and performer Josiah H. Combs; Cratis D. Williams, the legendary father of Appalachian studies; and the folklorist and master storyteller Leonard W. Roberts. Throughout, Jones highlights the tales, songs, jokes, and other collected nuggets that define the breadth of each man’s research and repertoire.
Author: Carl Lindahl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1317477227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material drawn from the September 11 Project. Included in this varied collection are over 200 tales organized in chapters by storyteller, tale type or region, and representing diverse American cultures, from Appalachia and the Midwest to Native American and Latino traditions. Each chapter begins by discussing the storytellers and their oral traditions before presenting and introducing each tale, making this collection accessible to high school students, general readers or scholars.
Author: Charles W. Allbright
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780874831597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChurch can be a puzzle for children, what with grandfathers up in the choir wearing dresses, and "the consecrated Cross I'd bear" sounding like a big animalwith bad vision. Jack Butler says that Allbright "can hit your funny bone at fifty paces. . .and he can do a little bit more".
Author: James P. Leary
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780299173746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are brought to life in this casebook.
Author: Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-08-17
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 0307757307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChock full of the wit and wisdom that has become the Foxfire trademark, this entirely new volume in the acclaimed, 6-million-copy best-selling Foxfire series is on oral history of Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts, and folk arts. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780874830873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor clean enough to be used in the pulpit. St. Peter jokes, mock sermons, church bulletin misprints and age-old denominational rivalries are all here. Illustrated.
Author: Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 025305236X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does sound ecology—an acoustic connective tissue among communities—also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon—a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology—a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship.
Author: S. E. Schlosser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1493044907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spirit of a railroad flagman shines his lantern along the tracks near Maco, where he lost his head in a train accident. The ghost of a girl haunts the grave robbers who stole her corpse to use in a college medical department. And in a swamp outside Smithfield, a grisly mass hanging is re-created on dark nights. All this and much more!
