Download or read book Treasury of Southern Folklore written by B. A. Botkin and published by Outlet. This book was released on 1987-08-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of anecdotes, tall tales, yarns, legends, stories, ballads and folksongs of the Great Plains and Far West, drawn from oral and printed sources and arranged chronologically and geographically

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treasury of American Folklore written by B. A. Botkin and published by Globe Pequot Press. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers...besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders."

Download or read book Treasury of Folklore Woodlands and Forests written by Dee Dee Chainey and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world. From the dark, gnarled woodlands of the north, to the humid jungles of the southern lands, trees have captured humanity's imagination for millennia. Filled with primal gods and goddesses, dryads and the fairy tales of old, the forests still beckon to us, offering sanctuary, mystery and more than a little mischievous trickery. From insatiable cannibalistic children hewn from logs, to lumberjack lore, and the spine-chilling legend of Bloody Mary, there is much to be found between the branches. Come into the trees; witches, seductive spirits and big, bad wolves await you. With this book, Folklore Thursday aim to encourage a sense of belonging across all cultures by showing how much we all have in common.

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by Crown. This book was released on 1949 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 500 stories and more than 75 folk-songs, presenting the full cast of characters of the varied South-heroes like Patrick Henry, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Stonewall Jackson and the almost godlike Robert E. Lee; outlaws and pirates; poor whites, slaves, Cajuns, Gullahs, etc.

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore Stories Ballads Traditions and Folkways of the People of the South written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasury of Western Folklore written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasury of Folklore Seas and Rivers written by Dee Dee Chainey and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthralling tales of the sea, rivers and lakes from around the globe. Folklore of the seas and rivers has a resonance in cultures all over the world. Watery hopes, fears and dreams are shared by all peoples where rivers flow and waves crash. This fascinating book covers English sailor superstitions and shape-shifting pink dolphins of the Amazon, Scylla and Charybdis, the many guises of Mami Wata, the tale of the Yoruba River spirit, the water horses of the Scottish lochs, the infamous mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, and much more. Accompanied by stunning woodcut illustrations, popular authors Dee Dee Chainey and Willow Winsham explore the deep history and enduring significance of water folklore the world over, from mermaids, selkies and sirens to ghostly ships and the fountains of youth. With this book, Folklore Thursday aims to encourage a sense of belonging across all cultures by showing how much we all have in common.

Download or read book A Treasury of Railroad Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Douglas Southall Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Civil War Treasury of Tales Legends and Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by Promontory. This book was released on 1981 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types, personal narratives, anecdotes, hero tales, etc. culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources of Civil War.

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore Stories Ballads Traditions and Folkways of the People of the South Ed with an Introduction by B A Botkin with a Foreword by Douglas Southall Freeman written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beautiful Music All Around Us written by Stephen Wade and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by. Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on "the Library's recording machine" in a rendering of "Rock Island Line"; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme "Pullin' the Skiff"; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into "Glory in the Meetinghouse." Alongside loving and expert profiles of these performers and their locales and communities, Wade also untangles the histories of these iconic songs and tunes, tracing them through slave songs and spirituals, British and homegrown ballads, fiddle contests, gospel quartets, and labor laments. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy. Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in The Beautiful Music All Around Us bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The hardcover edition also includes an accompanying CD that presents these thirteen performances, songs and sounds of America in the 1930s and '40s.

Download or read book Treasury of Norse Mythology written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated stories of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters come to life in this collection of Norse myths, including those of the thunder god Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki.