When Grandpa Delivered Babies And Other Ozarks Vignettes

Author : Benjamin G. Rader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780252056604

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When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes by Benjamin G. Rader Pdf

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader’s memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather midwifed babies and his great uncle Jerry Rader laughed so hard at one of his own stories that he choked to death on a pork chop. As he reveals the Ozarks of the 1930s through 1950s, Rader dispels the myths of the region’s people as isolated and sharing a single set of values and behaviors. He also takes readers inside the life of the extended Rader family and its neighborhoods, each of which drew on storytelling to strengthen resolve in lives roiled by change, economic depression, and the shift of daily life from the country to the city. An alluring blend of remembering and reflection, When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes provides a vivid portrait of a fading time.

Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780252094118

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Ghost of the Ozarks by Brooks Blevins Pdf

In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancée captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful "Barons of the Hills," and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety. Closely examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the murder investigation and trial, where a man claiming to be the murder victim--the "Ghost" of the Ozarks--appeared to testify. Local conditions in Stone County, which had no electricity and only one long-distance telephone line, frustrated the dozen or more reporters who found their way to the rural Ozarks, and the developments following the arrests often prompted reporters' caricatures of the region: accusations of imposture and insanity, revelations of hidden pasts and assumed names, and threats of widespread violence. Locating the past squarely within the major currents of American history, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South paints a convincing backdrop to a story that, more than 80 years later, remains riddled with mystery.

Author : James M. McGlathery
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 0252061918

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The Brothers Grimm and Folktale by James M. McGlathery Pdf

"Some of the best folklore and Grimm scholars from Europe and the U.S. combined to give an excellent overview of the scholarly research and current critical thought regarding Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and their hugely popular Grimm's Fairy Tales. . . . The book is directed to the general educated public and is very readable." -- Choice

Author : William John Mahar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066960

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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask by William John Mahar Pdf

The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.

Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252065484

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A Socialist Utopia in the New South by William Fitzhugh Brundage Pdf

"A definitive account of the Ruskin colonies and of their place in the larger social radical strivings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . Well written and solidly researched, it gives us an understanding of an important quest for heaven on earth." -- Edward K. Spann, author of Brotherly Tomorrows: Movements for a Cooperative Society in America, 1820-1920 This first book-length study of the Ruskin colonies shows how several hundred utopian socialists gathered as a cooperative community in Tennessee and Georgia in the late nineteenth century. The communitarians' noble but fatally flawed act of social endeavor revealed the courage and desperation they felt as they searched for alternatives to the chaotic and competitive individualism of the age of robber barons and for a viable model for a just and humane society at a time of profound uncertainty about public life in the United States.

Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0252013727

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Fieldwork by Bruce Jackson Pdf

Fieldwork deals with the practical, mechanical, ethical, and theoretical aspects of collecting data. Jackson discusses how fieldworkers define their role, how they relate to others in the field, and how they go about recording for later use what occurred in their presence. This treatment offers an abundance of useful information to those who do folklore fieldwork as well as those who work in any of the other social sciences or humanities. An appendix relates the author's own experiences while documenting Texas's death row.

Author : Beverly Bush Patterson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252070038

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The Sound of the Dove by Beverly Bush Patterson Pdf

In The Sound of the Dove, Beverly Bush Patterson explores one of the oldest traditions of American religious folksong, a national heritage of great beauty and dignity that remains vital in the lives and worship of predestinarian Primitive Baptists in the southern mountains. This unaccompanied and frequently unharmonized congregational singing challenges our assumptions about creativity, aesthetics, meaning, and identity. Patterson's revealing study incorporates interviews, field observations, historical research, song transcriptions, and musical analysis. She uses seventeenth-century English documents to trace historical antecedents of Primitive Baptist singing and to frame her discussion of religious belief and gender roles as they intersect with singing. One chapter is devoted to the role of women in this church.

Author : Jason G. Strange
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051890

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Shelter from the Machine by Jason G. Strange Pdf

”You’re either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.” That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today. Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society—only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.

Author : Erik S. Gellman,Jarod Roll
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252093333

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The Gospel of the Working Class by Erik S. Gellman,Jarod Roll Pdf

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.

Author : Michael Uzendoski,Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252093609

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The Ecology of the Spoken Word by Michael Uzendoski,Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy Pdf

This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and appreciate Quichua aesthetic expression. Guiding readers into Quichua ways of thinking and being--in which language itself is only a part of a communicative world that includes plants, animals, and the landscape--Uzendoski and Calapucha-Tapuy weave exacting translations into an interpretive argument with theoretical implications for understanding oral traditions, literacy, new technologies, and language. A companion websiteoffers photos, audio files, and videos of original performances illustrates the beauty and complexity of Amazonian Quichua poetic expressions.

Author : Regina Bendix,Kilian Bizer,Dorothy Noyes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0252082370

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Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration by Regina Bendix,Kilian Bizer,Dorothy Noyes Pdf

At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This new book shows newcomers and veteran researchers how to craft associations that will lead to rich mutual learning under inevitably tricky conditions. Strikingly candid and always grounded, the authors draw a wealth of profound, practical lessons from an in-depth case study of a multiyear funded project on cultural property. Examining the social dynamics of collaboration, they show readers how to anticipate sources of conflict, nurture trust, and jump-start thinking across disciplines. Researchers and institutions alike will learn to plan for each phase of a project life cycle, capturing insights and shepherding involvement along the way.

Author : Charles B. Gatewood,Louis Kraft
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803227729

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Lt. Charles Gatewood and His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood,Louis Kraft Pdf

"Realizing that he had more experience dealing with Native peoples than other lieutenants serving on the frontier, Gatewood decided to record his experiences. Although he died before he completed his project, the work he left behind remains an important firsthand account of his life as a commander of Apache scouts and as a military commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Betsy Gould Hearne,Roberta Seelinger Trites
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780252076114

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A Narrative Compass by Betsy Gould Hearne,Roberta Seelinger Trites Pdf

Exploring the narratives that orient the lives of women scholars

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678192

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

Author : Gila Flam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : OCLC:233924995

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Singing for Survival by Gila Flam Pdf