Folklore
The Only True Folksongs in English
The Only True Folksongs in English: American Ballad Scholarship, 1855–1915 uncovers how nineteenth-century American scholars including the children of farmers, sail makers, and ministers set out to prove ...
Narrative Knows No Boundaries
Contributions by Sheila Bock, Olivia Caldeira, Claudia Chiang-Frost, Cynthia Cox, Ann K. Ferrell, Kate Parker Horigan, Stewart Jobrack, Eleanor Paynter, James Phelan, Susan Ritchie, Martha C. Sims, Jasmine ...
A Singing Game
A Singing Game: A Personal History of “When I Was a Baby” examines a series of variants of the classic singing game. “When I Was a Baby,” like other traditional singing games, is based around a verse or ...
The Folklore of Democracy
Contributions by Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Richard Bauman, Norma Cantú, Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Margaret Dorsey, Ehsan Estiri, Gary Alan Fine, Lisa Gilman, Jay Mechling, Whitney Phillips, Afsane Rezaei, Liora S ...
The Sons of Neptune
The Sons of Neptune: Tracing the Archetype of the Erotic Sailor explores the evolving image of the sailor as both cultural icon and erotic figure—one that has remained curiously omnipresent and yet critically u ...
Boys Will See Boys
In Boys Will See Boys: Folklore, Friendships, and Emotions in Boyhood Snapshots, author Jay Mechling examines snapshots—photographs of boys taken by boys—to uncover the private, inner lives of American boy ...
Though Silent They Speak
Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy ...
Regenerating the Feminine
Mythologists work as cultural animateurs, tracking patterns and trends, identifying archetypal and symbolic wounds and remedies. Reading cultural and environmental events via texts and patterns from such ...
Worth a Thousand Words
In 2014, Wolfgang Mieder published Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics with the University Press of Mississippi. The book created an informative entry ...
Fiddling Is My Joy
In Fiddling Is My Joy, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. Although music historians acknowledge a prominent ...