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What's Going On?: (in Modern Texas Folklore)
ISBN: 9781574410587 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays from the 1970s describes the customs, traditions, songs, and stories by which future anthropologists will analyze that decade. The rodeos and chain letters and bumper stickers, Neiman Marcus, and fat stock shows, gospel conventions, and underground newspapers, CB radios and university ghosts, backwoods beer busts and the folklore of marijuana, Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination. This publication also looks at zydeco, Western Swing, gospel music, Texas country music, and the rise of redneck rock by such writers as Joseph Lomax, Guy Logsdon, Bill Malone, and Jan...
This collection of essays from the 1970s describes the customs, traditions, songs, and stories by which future anthropologists will analyze that decad...
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Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore
ISBN: 9781574411003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, consisting of fourteen essays on Texas folklore and folk life. Beliefs and customs, riddles and proverbs, songs and stories: the breadth of Texas folklore is well illustrated by the best of Texas s folklorists.
" A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, consisting of fourteen essays on Texas folklore and folk life. Beliefs and customs, riddles and proverbs,...
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T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore
ISBN: 9781574411034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains a valuable chronological and bibliographical listing of Texas Folklore Society publications. It also includes twenty-five folk tales, including the lore of the armadillo, Texas country schoolteachers; legal lore from the courthouse; persimmon beer; classic honky tonks; Mexican lore on how to have, hold, or free oneself of a lover; Pecos Bill; the vampire; peyote ceremonialism; animal metaphors; Texas prison folklore; oil field jokes; and quilting, among others.
" This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains a valuable chronological and bibliographical listing of Texas Folklore Society publications. I...
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Corners of Texas
ISBN: 9780929398570 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three yearsfrom lynchings to "el ""pato" boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; from jokes about droughts and lawyers to tales of folk, gospel and blues music; from gravemarkers to bottle trees, and more."
This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three yearsfrom lynchings to "el ""pato" boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; ...
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2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey
ISBN: 9781574411409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey is a journey -- or odyssey -- through the Texas Folklore Society as of the year 2001 A.D. Contemporary topics include grandparenting, uppity women, and Spam. Historical topics include the Model T, the Yellow Rose of Texas, and hunting horns. Also included is a discussion of recipes from Austin's famed Green Pastures restaurant and The Texas Cookbook (reissued by the University of North Texas Press in August 2001).
2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey is a journey -- or odyssey -- through the Texas Folklore Society as of the year 2001 A.D. Contemporary topics include g...
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131,39 |
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Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore
ISBN: 9781574411843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Texas has a large population who has lived on both sides of the border and created a folkloric mix that makes Texas unique. "Both Sides of the Border" gets its name from its emphasis on recently researched Tex-Mex folklore. But we recognize that Texas has other borders besides the Rio Grande. We use that title with the folklorist s knowledge that all of this state s songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers and became ours.
Chapters are organized thematically, and include favorite... Texas has a large population who has lived on both sides of the border and created a folkloric mix that makes Texas unique. "Both Sides of the Border"...
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Texas Folklore Society, 1943-1971: Volume II
ISBN: 9780929398785 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society (including Hermes Nye starting the tradition of the hootenanny at Texas Folklore Society meetings in 1956), and the emphasis on singing beginning at Society gatherings.
The Texas Folklore Society was thirty-five years old in 1944, having come into existence under the hands of John Avery Lomax and Leonidas Warren Payne in 1909. J. Frank Dobie held the reins of the... The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishin...
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Texas Toys and Games
ISBN: 9781574410372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. You won t find molded plastic, mass-produced items in this Texas Folklore Society Publication. These are folk toys, made from natural or available materials, whatever is handy or can be scrounged. The folks who make them are amateurs of varying degrees, from the ten-year-old hammering together a skate scooter or box kite to the doting grandparent sewing doll clothes or whittling paired giraffes for a Noah s Ark. "Texas Toys and Games" combines both how-to descriptions and reminiscences.
Folk games encompass guessing, gambling, and counting games; physically competitive games of chase,... You won t find molded plastic, mass-produced items in this Texas Folklore Society Publication. These are folk toys, made from natural or available mat...
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Some Still Do: Essays on Texas Customs
ISBN: 9781574411027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching water the same way their fathers and grandfathers did a hundred years ago. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a collection of essays on some of the olds waysthe customsstill practiced in Texas. It is not an exercise in nostalgia, but a look at practical ways of dealing with problems of survival and coping with nature and people.
" Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching water the same way their fathers and grandfathers did...
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Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943: Volume I
ISBN: 9780929398426 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Society had its beginnings at the A&M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&M English teacher from Harvard and Leonidas Warren Payne, a thirty-six year old UT English professor and linguist, met to discuss establishing a folklore society, as had been suggested by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard. The announced purpose of the society was to collect and make known to the public songs and ballads, superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs, legends, dialects, games, plays, and dances, and riddles and proverbs.
The Society had its beginnings at the A&M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&M English teacher from Harvard and Leo...
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Texas Folklore Society, 1971-2000: Volume III
ISBN: 9781574411225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Texas Folklore Society has collected, presented, and preserved more folklore than any other similar society in the United States. It has brought to Texas and sent out from Texas some of the leading folklorists of the nation. The third volume of the Society s history begins with the move from Wilson Hudson s editorship at the University of Texas to F. E. Abernethy s editorship at Stephen F. Austin State University.
The three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society s history were the result of Jack Duncan and John West requesting that all the Society s programs be published in a volume.... The Texas Folklore Society has collected, presented, and preserved more folklore than any other similar society in the United States. It has brought t...
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Legendary Ladies of Texas
ISBN: 9780929398754 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is an exploration of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them. The Texas Folklore Society offers these accounts, written by a variety of authors, about the women who have shaped Texas history with their accomplishments and character. Included are Emily Morgan, Belle Starr, Elizabet Ney, and Miriam Ferguson, among others.
This is an exploration of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them. The Texas Folklore Society offers these acco...
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68,10 |
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The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends
ISBN: 9781574411683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The title and the idea for this book began in 1958, when Mody Boatright first published his essay, "The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore." What Mody identified was a long established form of folklore that was firmly entrenched among people everywhere. The family saga--as Mody and this collection defines it--is made up of an accumulation of separate family legends. These are the stories of the old folks and the old times that are told among the family when they gather for funerals or Thanksgiving dinner. These are the "remember-when" stories the family tells about the time when the...
The title and the idea for this book began in 1958, when Mody Boatright first published his essay, "The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore." What Mody ...
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Hoein the Short Rows
ISBN: 9780870742569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If there was any pleasure at all in hoeing, it was in the short row soon hoed rather than the one that in the day s high heat seemed to stretch to shimmering eternity. And that s what this collection of Texas folklore is, a series of short rows, easily and pleasantly hoed, promising a great crop as a reward for the reader s labors.
Here are high toned women and hayburners, loud pipes and calaveras, brown derbies and battles royal. And, oh yes, Welsh mains. And if these seem like unfamiliar rows, they are nonetheless pleasantly hoed, and in the process much will be learned about railway... If there was any pleasure at all in hoeing, it was in the short row soon hoed rather than the one that in the day s high heat seemed to stretch to shi...
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The Folklore of Texan Cultures
ISBN: 9781574411010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A lot of different kinds of people have come to Texas since the Spanish first met the Indians within its borders. And that is what this book is aboutall the Cajuns and Mexicans and Czechs, all the colors and breeds and bones that have come to Texas and mixed their blood and their ways of life with the land they settled and the people they neighbored with. The main body of the book consists of writings about the customs and cures and the songs and stories and tales that twenty-four different ethnic groups brought with them when they came to stay in Texas.
" A lot of different kinds of people have come to Texas since the Spanish first met the Indians within its borders. And that is what this book is abouta...
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Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany
ISBN: 9781574411058 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a traditional Texas literary sonovagun. Cowboy ballads, bateaus, gaucho songs, mineral wells, corridos, Aggie war stories, songs of Bob Wills, Baptist kids, coyotes, and old-time cowboys are all simmered together and spiced with discussions of folklore, heaven, neighborhood gatherings, cotton growing, and family characters.
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a traditional Texas literary sonovagun. Cowboy ballads, bateaus, gaucho songs, mineral wells, corrid...
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Bounty of Texas
ISBN: 9780929398143 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J. Frank Dobie on deer hunting and a piece by Bertha McKee Dobie on Frank s interest in grasses. Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach, and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, and Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. There are essays on the bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the state s ethnic heritages through the German Volksfest in...
In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication...
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Singin' Texas
ISBN: 9780929398716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework.
This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework. <...
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Tales from the Big Thicket, 1
ISBN: 9781574411423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with untamed nature. The secretive beauty and mystery of this pocket of wilderness lying between the sandy East Texas forests and the prairies of the Gulf Coastal region would inevitably inspire tales-and the pioneers who came to terms with this land were an individualistic and legend-creating lot. In Tales from the Big Thicket, Francis E. Abernethy presents a collection of stories about the Big Thicket and its people. He begins with a background...
The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with un...
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Paisanos
ISBN: 9781574410594 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The paisano, or roadrunner, is the emblem of the Texas Folklore Society. However, "Paisanos" is not a bird bookit is a folklore miscellany, a collection of essays on folklore generally, but mainly on Texas folklore. "Paisanos" covers a wide field of folklore, from the academic to the popular, from the scientific to the mystical, and from studies of uses of the past to practices in folklore that are still very much a part of our lives.
" The paisano, or roadrunner, is the emblem of the Texas Folklore Society. However, "Paisanos" is not a bird bookit is a folklore miscellany, a collecti...
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