Selected Bibliography

Aguila, Richard. ed. Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Bascom, William R. ed. Frontiers of folklore. Westview P, 1977. GR40 .F76

Bluestein, Gene. The voice of the folk; folklore and American literary theory. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1972. GR105 .B485

Boatright, Mody C. Folk laughter on the American frontier. NY: Collier Books 1961. PN6161 .B663

Botkin, Benjamin A. ed. The American people in their stories, legends, tall tales, traditions, ballads and songs. London: Pilot P, 1946. GR105 .B56

- - -. Sidewalks of America; folklore, legends, sagas, traditions, customs, songs, stories, and sayings of city folk. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1954. GR105 .B57

Brunvand, Jan H. The study of American folklore. NY: Norton, 1986. GR105 .B7

- - -. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. NY: Garland, 1996.

Carney, George O. ed. Baseball, barns, and bluegrass: a geography of American folklife. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. GR105 .B375

Coffin, Tristram, and Hennig Cohen. eds. Folklore from the working folk of America. Garden City, NY: Anchor P, 1973. GR105 .C59

| Top | Dorson, Richard M. ed. Folklore and folklife, an introduction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1972. Res GR65 .D57

- - -. America in legend: folklore from the colonial period to the present. NY: Pantheon Books 1973. GR105 .D64

- - -. ed. Handbook of American folklore. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1983. GR105 .H36

Dundes, Alan. Interpreting folklore. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1980. GR66 .D87

- - -. Mother wit from the laughing barrel; readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1972, 1973. GR103 .D86

Dundes, Alan, and Carl R. Pagter. Work hard and you shall be rewarded: urban folklore from the paperwork empire. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1978, 1975. GR105 .D86

Emrich, Duncan. Folklore on the American land. Boston: Little, Brown 1972. GR105 .E47

Flanagan, John T., and Arthur P. Hudson. eds. Folklore in American literature. Evanston, Ill: Row, Peterson, 1958. GR105 .F55

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey." Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. Eds. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996. 301-25.

Georges, Robert A. ed. "Taking Stock: Current Problems and Future Prospects in American Folklore Studies." Western Folklore 50.1 (Jan 1991).

Gordon, Susan. "The Powers of the Handless Maiden." Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture. Ed. Joan N Radner. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. 252-88.

| Top | Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps. eds. The book of Negro folklore. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1958. GR103 .H74

Hyde, Lewis. Trickster makes this world: mischief, myth, and art. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. GR524 .H93

Jackson, Bruce. ed. The Negro and his folklore in nineteenth-century periodicals. Austin: U of Texas P, 1967. GR103 .J3

Jones, Gayl. Liberating voices: oral tradition in African American literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991. PS153 .N5 J66

Jones, Michael O. ed. Putting Folklore to Use. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1994.

| Top | Jones, Steven S. Folklore and literature in the United States: an annotated bibliography of studies of folklore in American literature. NY: Garland Pub., 1984. Z1225 .J66

Larsen, Stephen. The shaman's doorway: opening the mythic imagination to contemporary consciousness. NY: Harper & Row, 1976. BL304 .L37

Levine, Lawrence W. Black culture and black consciousness: Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom. NY: Oxford U P, 1977. GR103 .L48

Lopez, Barry H. Giving birth to Thunder, sleeping with his daughter: Coyote builds North America. Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977. E98 .F6 L825

Mieder, Wolfgang. "'The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian': History and Meaning of a Proverbial Stereotype." Journal of American Folklore 106.419 (Wint 1993): 38-60.

Oring, Elliott. Folk groups and folklore genres: an introduction. Logan: Utah State U P, 1986. Res GR66 .F65

Ortiz, Alfonso, and Alfonso Ortiz. ed. American Indian trickster tales. NY: Viking, 1998. E98 .F6 A48

Paredes, Americo, and Richard Bauman. eds. Toward new perspectives in folklore. Austin: U of Texas P, 1972. GR71 .P3

Prahlad, Sw. Anand. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism." African American Review 33.4 (Wint 1999): 565-75.

Radner, Joan N. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.

Rosenberg, Neil V. ed. Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.  

Sarris, Greg. Keeping Slug Woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian texts. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. E99 .P65 S27

Yoder, Don. ed. American folklife. Austin: U of Texas P, 1976. GR105 .A6

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