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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bruce JacksonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438496160ISBN 10: 1438496168 Pages: 388 Publication Date: 01 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction: Getting Here Part I: Scenes 1. Prison Folklore 2. In the Valley of the Shadows 3. In the Arctic with Malaurie Part II: Outside the Law 4. From In the Life 5. From A Thief 's Primer Part III: The Folksong Revival 6. The Folksong Revival 7. Skip James: ""Skippy been places . . ."" 8. Liner Notes: Phil Ochs Part IV: Black Studies 9. The Glory Songs of the Lord 10. The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine 11. Foreword to Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands 12. Introduction to The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 13. Prison Worksongs: The Composer in Negatives 14. What Happened to Jody 15. The Afro-American Toast and Worksong: Two Dead Genres Part V: People 16. Benjamin A. Botkin (1901–1975) 17. Remembering Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915–July 19, 2002) 18. Legman: The King of X700 19. In Prison with Pete Seeger Part VI: The Folklore Business 20. Things That from a Long Way Off Look Like Flies 21. Folkloristics 22. Arctic Silence: Icy Terror in the Heart of the Smithsonian 23. ""Only the Sailor Knows the Archipelago"" 24. From the Editor: The Humanities at Risk 25. From the Editor: Dead Soldiers and the Arctic Night Index"Reviews"""Folklore Matters is a richly deserved salute to Bruce Jackson's unswerving commitment to document and preserve American voices and a challenge to future generations to carry his torch forward."" — William Ferris, former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities ""Bruce Jackson is as comfortable with the blues of traditionalist Skip James and the folk revival passions of Pete Seeger as with the theoretical concerns of Michel Foucault."" — Nick Spitzer, Producer of American Routes" Author InformationBruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at University at Buffalo. He is author or editor of more than forty books, including The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories and Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir, both published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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