Lore Of An Adirondack County

Author : Edith E. Cutting
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501723650

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Lore of an Adirondack County by Edith E. Cutting Pdf

"My family lives in the Adirondacks, a section of New York State that has been favorable to the preservation of folklore. With a common background in England and America for life in a small community, we have kept alive many old tales, songs, sayings, and superstitions, which have always had a sort of fascination for us even though, when quoting some belief, we often qualified it with the remark, 'Of course, I don't believe that sort of thing.'"—from Lore of an Adirondack County Collecting songs, stories, and sayings passed down in her family—and in those of their friends and neighbors in Essex County, New York—Edith E. Cutting provides an invaluable compilation of Adirondack folklore, from lumberjack songs to tall tales about drinking, hunting, and French Canadians. Also included are legends about hidden treasure, weather lore, stories about ghosts and witches, recollections of folk medicines and children's games, and popular songs and ballads. Originally published by Cornell University Press in 1944, Lore of an Adirondack County remains a fresh and charming account of the folkways of New York State, showing how a single Adirondack family, aided by willing neighbors, 'yarned' and sang in the hills above Lake Champlain.

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578787

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American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf

Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

Author : Terry Ann Mood-Leopold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576076217

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American Regional Folklore by Terry Ann Mood-Leopold Pdf

An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.

Author : Robert D. Bethke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051182338

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Adirondack Voices by Robert D. Bethke Pdf

Reprint of the work originally published by the University of Illinois Press in 1981. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James K. Kirkland,Holly F. Matthews,Charles W. Sullivan III,Karen Baldwin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822382584

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Herbal and Magical Medicine by James K. Kirkland,Holly F. Matthews,Charles W. Sullivan III,Karen Baldwin Pdf

Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Folk music
ISBN : IND:30000082153838

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A Brief List of Material Relating to New York State Folk Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Bergmann
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815623313

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Upstate Literature by Frank Bergmann Pdf

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin
Publisher : Philadelphia : American Folklore Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IND:39000005937417

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin Pdf

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292744813

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick Pdf

Tristram Potter Coffin's The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick's supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad's story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000108628946

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New York Folklore Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold W. Thompson,Edith E. Cutting
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501717543

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A Pioneer Songster by Harold W. Thompson,Edith E. Cutting Pdf

Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. The manuscript on which this book is based is the most important collection of traditional song-texts, British and American in origin, to survive from its period. Discovered in the 1930s in the attic of Harry S. Douglass in Arcade, New York, it was written by Julia S. and Volney O. Stevens, who transcribed nearly ninety of the songs with which their father, Artemas Stevens, so often entertained them. The Stevens family had come to Wyoming County, New York, from New England in 1836, bringing with them traditional songs and ballads. The Stevens-Douglass manuscript contains the texts of 89 songs. In A Pioneer Songster, these are organized first by their origins (36 are from the British Isles; 53 were composed in America) and then according to themes and subjects, including love, history, politics, the pioneering life, politics, murder and shipwrecks, minstrel songs, spirituals, Indian legends, temperance, and satire. The book features a general introduction and shorter introductions to each themed section. In addition, each song is accompanied by an informative headnote detailing its history, meaning, and significance. A Pioneer Songster has been edited for the enjoyment of the general reader, but in their annotation, the editors have aimed at assisting students and scholars of folklore, musicology, and American history. While preserving the manuscript's original punctuation and spelling, they have succeeded in creating a resource that will be of interest to all who care for the American folk tradition and the history of New York State.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497621

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Folk songs, American
ISBN : IND:30000077200669

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A List of Printed Sources for "Little Brown Dog" and Similar Songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edith Fowke,Jay Rahn,LaRena LeBarr Clark
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781895176360

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A Family Heritage by Edith Fowke,Jay Rahn,LaRena LeBarr Clark Pdf

New folk music and folk-song materials in this comprehensive study are particularly important for singers, folk music enthusiasts, ethnomusicologists, comparative and cultural studies scholars, and those interested in Canadian culture. LaRena Clark was a great singer and knew many fine songs. Her wide repertoire covers almost the complete range of types and topics of traditional Anglo-Canadian songs. Comparison with other collections in Canada, the United States, the British Isles, and Australia indicate just how unique and far-reaching it was. Clark's background and her varied ancestry shaped her repertoire. The account of her parents' activities gives a vivid picture of folk life in rural Ontario during the early years of this century. She knew some Canadian songs previously unreported, and she wrote songs with a strong Canadian flavour. Musically, Clark's songs are a microcosm of practices characteristic of British folk music throughout the English-speaking world. Particularly noteworthy is her constant reworking of traditional materials, procedures, forms, and individual tunes.

Author : Norman Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313088100

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American Folk Songs [2 volumes] by Norman Cohen Pdf

This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state. The topics range from the major historical events, such as the Boston Tea Party, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the California Gold Rush, to regionally important events such as disasters and murders, labor problems, occupational songs, ethnic conflicts. Some of the songs will be widely recognized, such as Casey Jones, Marching Through Georgia, or Sweet Betsy from Pike. Others, less familiar, have not been reprinted since their original publication, but deserve to be studied because of what they tell about the people of these United States, their loves, labors, and losses, and their responses to events. The collection is organized by regions, starting with New England and ending with the states bordering the Pacific Ocean, and by states within each region. For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context. References to available recordings and other versions are given. Folksongs, such as those discussed here, are an important tool for historians and cultural historians because they sample experiences of the past at a different level from that of contemporary newspaper accounts and academic histories. These songs, in a sense, are history writ small. Includes: Away Down East, The Old Granite State, Connecticut, The Virginian Maid's Lament, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, I'm Going Back to North Carolina, Shut up in Cold Creek Mine, Ain't God Good to Iowa?, Dakota Land, Dear Prairie Home, Cheyenne Boys, I'm off for California, and others.