Journal of American Folklore articles from January 2007

Journal of American Folklore archives from January 2007

Americo Paredes: ballad scholar (Phillips Barry Lecture, 2004).("With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and its Hero)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... The ballad scholarship of Americo Paredes (1915-1999), principally his book "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and its Hero, has been overlooked as a creative synthesis and expansion of the extant folklore theories and...

Whiteness and the performance of race in American ballroom dance.
January 1, 2007... Based on ethnographic fieldwork with predominantly white, middle-class, American ballroom dancers, this article discusses the ballroom as a site where problematic constructions of whiteness and otherness are embodied in performance. Through...

Respectable ladies and uncouth men: the performative politics of class and gender in the public realm of an Italian city.
January 1, 2007... According to the Webster's dictionary, being respectable means being "decent or correct in character or behavior" or being "fit to be seen." In this article, I approach "decent behavior" and "fitness to be seen" as the staple factor in the...

William N. Fenton (1908-2005).(Obituary)
January 1, 2007... William Nelson Fenton, a fellow of the American Folklore Society and long acknowledged as the dean of Iroquoian studies, died June 17, 2005, at Cooperstown, New York, at the age of 96. Except for brief visits to the Klamath Reservation and...

Folk Music from Wisconsin.(Sound recording review)
January 1, 2007... Folk Music from Wisconsin. [1960] 2001. Compiled and annotated by Helene Stratman-Thomas; reissue produced by Bob Carlin. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, in cooperation with Rounder Records, CD (1), Rounder 1521. Folk...

Comanche Flute Music played by Doc Tate Nevaquaya.(Sound recording review)
January 1, 2007... Comanche Flute Music played by Doc Tate Nevaquaya. 2004. Annotated by R. Carlos Nakai, Edward Wapp, and Verna Gillis. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, CD (1), SFW CD 50403. Originally released as Comanche Flute Music played by Doc Tate...

Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook.(Sound recording review)
January 1, 2007... Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook. 2005. By U. Utah Phillips; produced by Erica J. Haskell and John Smith. AK Press/daemon Records, CDs (4), AKA041Cd/dAM 19047. Bruce "U. Utah" Phillips is one of a kind--a storyteller, union organizer,...

Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers.(Sound recording review)
January 1, 2007... Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers. 2005. Produced by Erica Heilman and Gregory L. Sharrow. The Vermont Folklife Center, CD (1). The year 2005 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second world war. In...

American Pimp.(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... American Pimp. 1999. By Albert and Allen Hughes. 87 min. DVD format, color. (MGM, Underworld entertainment.) American Pimp: Raw Outtakes and the Hard Truth. 2004. By Albert and Allen Hughes. 70 min. DVD format, color. (Sony, Underworld...

Catching Out.(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Catching Out. 2003. By Sarah George. 79 min. video format, color. (worthy entertainment, Los Angeles.) Over the past century, the hobo has been the focus of countless works of fiction, songs, motion pictures, and academic research. In...

Native American Stories: New Video Releases.(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Native American Stories: New Video Releases. 2001. Produced and directed by Pat Ferrero. Five videos, 9 to 13 min. video format, color. (Hearts and Hands media Arts.) Director Pat Ferrero is familiar to folklorists through films such as...

Mysterious Object at Noon.(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Mysterious Object at Noon. 2000. By Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 85 min. DVD, black and white. (Plexifilm, Brooklyn, New York.) Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film Mysterious Object at Noon has prompted a wide range of responses. On the...

The Quilts of Gee's Bend.
January 1, 2007... The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta. Traveling exhibition, September 2002-November 2006; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-August 21, 2005. The Museum of Fine Arts,...

El Rio: Culture and Environment in the Rio Grande/rio Bravo Basin.
January 1, 2007... El Rio: Culture and Environment in the Rio Grande/rio Bravo Basin. Traveling exhibition and catalogue, curated and written by Olivia Cadaval and Cynthia Vidaurri, and produced by the Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural...

Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum.
January 1, 2007... Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum. Curated by Liz Bauer. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Open daily 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Entering Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum one reads the words written by Lucy Peabody in 1916: "By the creation of...

South Asian Folklore: An Encylopedia.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... South Asian Folklore: An Encylopedia. eds. Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus, and sarah Diamond. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. vii + 710, list of contributors, list of articles, maps, entries A to Z, index.) South Asian Folklore: An...

Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. By Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 430, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, index.)...

African Voices in the African American Heritage.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... African Voices in the African American Heritage. By Betty M. kuyk. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii + 201, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Until the mid-twentieth century, most scholars contended that,...

Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender. By Jeannie Banks Thomas. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. x + 216, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations.) In Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, &...

Experiences of Place.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Experiences of Place. Ed. Mary N. MacDonald. (Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the study of world Religions, Harvard Divinity school, 2003. Pp. 189, 16 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing.) How...

Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942. By Tony Russell, with editorial research by Bob Pinson, assisted by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. (New York: oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 1183,...

Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology. By Vincent Crapanzano. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 260, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references, index.) I do not envy young people who...

Le Carnaval de Quebec: La Grande Fete de L'hiver (The Carnival of Quebec: The Great Winter Festival).
January 1, 2007... Le Carnaval de Quebec: La Grande Fete de L'hiver (The Carnival of Quebec: The Great Winter Festival). By Jean Provencher. (Quebec: Editions MultiMondes and Commission de la Capitale Nationale, 2003. Pp. 127.) Every winter for half a...

In a Hungry Country: Essays by Simon Paneak.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... In a Hungry Country: Essays by Simon Paneak. ed., intro., and epi. by John Martin Campbell. Fwd. by Grant spealman. App. by Robert L. Rausch and stephen C. Porter. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii + 125, forward,...

The Ancient Fable: An Introduction.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Ancient Fable: An Introduction. By Niklas Holzberg. Trans. by Christine Jackson-Holzberg. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 128, bibliography, indexes.) Niklas Holzberg's Ancient Fable: An Introduction provides a...

Rap Music and Street Consciousness.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Rap Music and Street Consciousness. By Cheryl L. keyes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 304, bibliography, photographs, transcriptions, index, glossary.) Rap Music and Street Consciousness is a comprehensive history of...

Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. By Holly Tucker. (Detroit: wayne state University Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 213, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) In eighteenth-century France, it was not a...

Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project. By Jerrold Hirsch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 293, preface, introduction, epilogue, notes, index.) The Federal writers'...

Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village. By Robert Mellin. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Pp. 256, acknowledgments, introduction, 90 black-&-white...

Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. ed. Burt Feintuch. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. x + 237 pages, acknowledgments, contributor biographies, index.) "Spun by the rapid changes necessary to capitalism," as...

Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic. By Mary-Ann Constantine and Gerald Porter. Fwd. by Barre Toelken. (oxford: oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2003. Pp. xiii + 261, preface, index.) ...

Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory. By David Howes. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. xvi + 283, illustrations, maps, bibliography, references, index.) David Howes's study of sensuality...