Journal of American Folklore articles from June 2007

Journal of American Folklore archives from June 2007

"Flying Home": Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the black folk during World War II.
June 22, 2007... This article examines the theories of the black folk (those African Americans understood to constitute a folk group) as an economic, cultural, and literary category in the wartime writing of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It rereads this...

Euphemism, parody, insult, and innuendo: rhetoric and ethnic identity at the Mexican periphery.
June 22, 2007... Ethnic identity in Yucatan can best be understood within the context of regional politics and the promulgation of a regional folk culture. While Yucatecan communities contain several named groups--mayero, catrin, blanco, ts'ul--and their...

Performing al-Andalus, remembering al-Andalus: Mediterranean soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib.
June 22, 2007... This article examines how the concepts of "al-Andalus" and "Andalusian music" serve as touchstones for cultural identity in contemporary Syria and Morocco. I investigate how the performance of Andalusian music promotes ideologies of communal,...

What's in a coin? Reading the material culture of legend tripping and other activities.
June 22, 2007... Several people accused of being vampires are buried in southern Rhode Island. Their legends are well known, and as a result some of the places where these people are buried are sites of considerable activity. Drawing primarily on material...

Reimund Kvideland (1935-2006).(Obituary)
June 22, 2007... Reimund Kvideland died suddenly and unexpectedly on June 6, 2006, as he was waiting for his bus to go to his office at the University of Bergen, where he was professor emeritus. He was born in Hoyland in southwest Norway. Following studies...

Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages.(Audiovisual review)
June 22, 2007... Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages, 2004. Produced by Howard Bass and presented by the National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, CD (1), SFW CD 40480. This interesting recorded document...

Carnivals of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico/Trinidad/Martinique.(Audiovisual review)
June 22, 2007... Carnivals of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico/Trinidad/ Martinique. 2004. By Sonia Fritz, director, and Frances Lausell, producer. 60 min. DVD format, color. (Isla Films, San Juan, Puerto Rico.) This vibrant production has something of the...

Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England.(New Directions in Oral Theory)(Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics)(Dynamics of Tradition: Perspectives on Oral Poetry and Folk Belief)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England. By Mark C. Amodio. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. xvii + 298, acknowledgments, abbreviations, preface, notes, bibliography, index.) ...

Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community. By Jason Baird Jackson. Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. xviii +...

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography. By Stephen Knight. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi + 247, index.) In this most readable and thorough work, Stephen Knight, the leading authority on Robin hood, argues that there have...

Groundhog Day.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Groundhog Day. By Don Yoder. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2003. Pp. xv + 144; preface; acknowledgments; 56 photographs, maps, and illustrations; bibliography; index.) In writing Groundhog Day, Don Yoder did not take himself too...

Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. By Carol Burke. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 264, preface, bibliography, acknowledgments, notes, index.) As I write this...

The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town: Folklore and the Performance of Modernity. By Giovanna P. Del Negro. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. Pp. 183, acknowledgments, photographs, map, video stills,...

A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930. By Victor R. Greene. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii + 215, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, selected bibliography,...

Music and the Making of the New South.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Music and the Making of the New South. By Gavin James Campbell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 222, acknowledgments, 29 photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index.) The precipitous speed of...

The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend. By Norm Flayderman. Fwd. By James S. Hutchins. (Lincoln, R.I.: Andrew Mowbrey Inc., 2004. Pp. 512, illustrations, bibliography, index.) Norm Flayderman's vast experience as an antique arms...

Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art. By Raphael James Cristy. Fwd. By B. Byron Price. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 347, forward, preface, notes, bibliography, index, 111 figures, 32 color plates.) ...

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich. Ed. Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, and James R. Giles. (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2004. Pp. 261, prefaces, introduction, works cited, index, appendixes.) ...