Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters delve into significant themes and methods of folklore and folklife study; established expressions and activities; spheres and locations of folkloric action; and shared cultures and common identities. Beyond the longstanding arenas of academic focus developed throughout the 350-year legacy of folklore and folklife study, contributors at the forefront of the field also explore exciting new areas of attention that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. Encompassing a wide range of cultural traditions in the United States, from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to group festivals, these chapters consider the meanings in oral, social, and material genres of dance, ritual, drama, play, speech, song, and story while drawing attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Weaving together such varied and manifest traditions, this handbook pays significant attention to the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries that have always been distinctive in the American experience, reflecting on the relative youth of the nation; global connections of customs brought by immigrants; mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous, urbanized, and racialized population; and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. Edited by leading folklore scholar Simon J. Bronner, this handbook celebrates the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.

Download or read book American Folk Poetry written by Duncan Emrich and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1974 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of American songs, poems, and ballads, grouped under such headings as "Children's Songs", "Love", "Wars and Other Disasters", and "Work Chants."

Download or read book The Folk Roots of Contemporary Afro American Poetry written by Bernard W. Bell and published by Detroit : Broadside Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treasury of American Folk Poetry written by Joseph C. Pagan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury is a collection of lyric poems and some of my college poetry, which I have written and put together in this simple book. The lyric poems are "songs," which discuss all aspects of the American lifestyle. I have composed music for most of them even though all of it may not be written down. I start with ordinary social gatherings and expand into the joys and lulls of love and romance. I sing to the people of America and anyone else who will listen. I write about some different types of music that personify our culture. I try to give some cheer to the depressed and sing about growing up in Southern California. Sometimes it is just a song in passing about someone I have known or simply care about. This is my contribution to the American heritage. There is much more, and it would please me if you read on and learn about a softer side of life.

Download or read book American Poetry written by John Hollander and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of poetry that spans two centuries and provides a diverse point of view of American life. American Poetry offers a collection of 26 verses by our finest poets, all with their unique perspective on the land they loved and accompanied by remarkable paintings that enhance the meaning of the words. Here, beautifully illustrated, are such unforgettable works.

Download or read book American Poetry The Nineteenth Century Vol 2 LOA 67 written by Various and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War—reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation—ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America’s newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children’s verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available—some for the first time since their initial publication—an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America’s rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Download or read book Energies American Folk Poetry written by Carolyn M. Burke and published by Heirloom Books, a Small Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Folk Poetry written by Roger deV. Renwick and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the long tradition of folklore study, Roger deV. Renwick examines three genres: traditional English folksongs, local songs of regional interest, and working-class poetry. In the span of time that extends from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, he finds govern world views underlying a large sampling of poems related by common language, imagery, or topic, and then shows how these world views relate to the everyday lives and beliefs of the poetry's makers and users. There is, in addition, a pattern of historical continuity that links the rural folksongs of the eighteenth century with the part-rural, part-urban local songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and with the fully urban working-class poetry of the present day. English Folk Poetry is an immensely important contribution to folklore scholarship in its examination of contemporary working-class poetry, in its approach to questions of tacit meaning, and in its exploration of the relationship of inferential meanings to real, everyday lives.

Download or read book Vietnamese Folk Poetry written by John Balaban and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.

Download or read book Studies in Folk song and Popular Poetry written by Alfred Mason Williams and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book New American Folk Lore written by Ygor Noblott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New American Folk Lore offers a uniquely optimistic perspective on what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. -- to gain and lose, forget and remember. Through the timeless and imaginative style of folklore and fairytales, Ygor Noblott blends poetry and flash fiction and manages to capture a profound array of immigrant conditions: a leaf leaves his home to go on adventures; a young boy who processes the world through scary movies finds that the most terrifying monsters live in his neighborhood; it has rained for fifteen years in the town of Dolores until a stranger decides to help by going "to the place where the rain was born;" in a trailer park, a wife tells her husband that the Virgin Mary appeared to her in a cup of coffee. Fables. Myths. Legends. Fairy tales. This little chapbook contains the depth of an entire collection and yet remains humble and clear in its depictions of the human condition. In very few words, this collection of poems will make you smile, cry, and reminisce -- reminding us all that in one way or another, we are all pilgrims in this world.

Download or read book I Hear America Singing written by Ruth A. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of the original manuscript of "I hear America singing : an anthology of folk poetry", by Ruth A. Barnes.

Download or read book American Cycle written by Larry Beckett and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over forty-seven years. Its themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time. "The books are extraordinary, sustained explosions of authentic American language and energy. Each is entirely different from the others in style, voice, form and narrative content; each so rich in imagery and nuance and texture and event and so finely crafted. . . " —Paul Williams, author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist.American Cycle holds Spanish words loaned from Old California, rough colloquialisms in Paul Bunyan, the power of African-American vernacular English in John Henry, bare oratory in Chief Joseph, old west phrases in Wyatt Earp, circus ballyhoo in P. T. Barnum, aviation jargon in Amelia Earhart, backwoods dialect in Blue Ridge. As Walt Whitman says, "I hear America singing, the varied carols. . .”

Download or read book Anthology of Modern American Poetry written by Cary Nelson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

Download or read book From Sea to Shining Sea written by Amy L. Cohn and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.

Download or read book American Poetry The Nineteenth Century Vol 1 LOA 66 written by John Hollander and published by Library of America: The Americ. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freneau to Whitman.