| Series |
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; LV |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
no. 55.
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| Subject |
Folklore -- Texas.
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Folklore.
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Folklore -- Study and teaching.
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| Alt Name |
Abernethy, Francis Edward,
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Satterwhite, Carolyn Fiedler,
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Texas Folklore Society,
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| Add Title |
Essays on teaching and illustrating folklore |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Between the cracks of history -- Classroom definitions of folklore / F.E. Abernethy -- Defining folklore for my students / Joyce Roach -- Folklore and cinema / Jim Harris -- Toward a definition of folk culture / Joe S. Graham -- Folklore fieldwork on the Internet : some ethical and practical considerations / Jan Roush -- Beginning within : teaching folklore the easy way / Rhett Rushing -- The honored dead : the ritual of police burial / Phyllis Bridges -- Meaner than Hell! / Kenneth W. Davis -- Gang graffiti / Ken Untiedt -- Gideon Lincecum, "Killie Krankie," and fiddling in early Texas / Chris Goertzen -- The bluebird mare from Sterling City / Patrick Dearen -- The night the stars fell / Robert J. Duncan -- Rail tales : some are true / Charlie Oden -- Dance halls of East Texas : from oral history / Dennis Read and Bobby Nieman -- The oil field camp / James Winfrey -- Noises in the attic : adventures of some Texas ghosts / Allan Turner and Richard Stewart -- Repo man / John Lightfoot -- Tex-Mex dialect, or, Gidget goes to Acuna / Rebecca Cornell -- Punching sticks, flannel wrapped bricks, and pink powder purgatives : spring rituals / Ernestine Sewell Linck -- When Harley Sadler's tent show came to town / J.G. Pinkerton -- Eating over the sink and other marital strategies / James Ward Lee. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Note |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 24, 2017). |
| Summary |
Annotation. Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
| Note |
English. |
| ISBN |
0585292140 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585292144 (electronic bk.) |
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1574410369 |
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9781574410365 |
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1574410369 (alk. paper) |
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9781574410365 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9781574410365 |
| OCLC # |
45732527 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Between the cracks of history. 1st ed. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1997 1574410369 (DLC) 97017598 (OCoLC)36994272 |
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