Journal of American Folklore articles from September 2008

Journal of American Folklore archives from September 2008

Hair: From the West to the Middle East through the Mediterranean (The 2007 AFS Mediterranean Studies Section Address).(Essay)
September 22, 2008... From shaving to curling, from the concealment of hair to its ostentatious display, hair lends itself to a wide assortment of arrangements. It is uniquely suited for expressing status difference, relations among kin, group membership, and both...

Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... In this paper, we consider how the folk are produced and consumed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest). Founded in the aftermath of the civil rights movement as a cosmopolitan gathering of music, food, and art lovers,...

Running again, roasting again, touching again: on repetition, heightened affective expressivity, and the utility of the notion of linguaculture in Navajo and beyond.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... This article analyzes a Coyote narrative told by John Watchman to Edward Sapir in Navajo. While it has been widely documented that Navajo curing ways are tightly organized by the use of repetition, there has been far less investigation of...

"A famous and most miraculous prophecy": an annotated translation of a middle Dutch trickster poem.(Notes)(Een schoone ende wonderlijcke prognosticatie)(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Een schoone ende wonderlijcke prognosticatie (1560) is one of many Dutch texts dealing with the trickster Till Eulenspiegel, known as "Tijl Uilenspiegel" in the Low Countries and "Owlglass" in England. The poem differs from most Eulenspiegel...

Karen Baldwin (1943-2007).(Obituary)
September 22, 2008... The American Folklore Society has lost a member of long standing, a woman of high intelligence, perspicacity, and wit who devoted her life to teaching in all its forms and who three decades ago, at the start of her career, gave our discipline...

The Wind in the Reeds: The Northumbrian Smallpipes.(Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England, 1999)(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2008... The Wind in the Reeds: The Northumbrian Smallpipes, 2001. Production for CD by Tony Engle. Original recordings by Tony Engle and Alistair Anderson. Original production by Alistair Anderson, Colin Ross, and Tony Engle. Topic Records, CD (1),...

Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement, 2005.(Sound recording review)
September 22, 2008... Rolas de Aztlan: Songs of the Chicano Movement, 2005. Produced, compiled, and annotated by Estevan Cesar Azcona and Russell Rodriguez. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, CD (1), SFW CD 40516. The Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was...

The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte.(Video recording review)
September 22, 2008... The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte. 2007. By Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson. 53 min. DVD format, color. (Filmakers Library. New York.) Employing documentary techniques and fieldwork strategies, The Guestworker tells the...

Rhythm and Roots: Southern Music Traditions.
September 22, 2008... Rhythm and Roots: Southern Music Traditions. Organized by the Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Laurie Kay Sommers. The exhibition premiered at the Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, TN,...

"Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!": The Writings of Lee Hays.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... "Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!": The Writings of Lee Hays. Ed. and intro. by Robert Koppelman. Fwd. by Pete Seeger. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 225, preface, acknowledgments, chronology, 14...

Tin Men.(Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Tin Men. By Archie Green. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 202, appendix, inventory, 101 illustrations, references, index.) Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture. By Archie Green. Fwd. by...

Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor.(The Mirth of Nations)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor. By Mikita Brottman. (Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii + 174, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index.) The Mirth of...

Myth: A Very Short Introduction.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Myth: A Very Short Introduction. By Robert A. Segal. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 163, list of illustrations, introduction, references, index.) Robert A. Segal states his intention up front: "This book is an...

Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.(Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls: The Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. By Timothy Rice. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii + 119, glossaries, references, 26 black-and-white photographs, 2 maps, music CD.) Embroidered with Gold,...