Wisconsin FolkloreJames P. Leary Univ of Wisconsin Press, 15. 1. 1999 - Počet stran: 560 Highly entertaining and richly informative, Wisconsin Folklore offers the first comprehensive collection of writings about the surprisingly varied folklore of Wisconsin. Beginning with a historical introduction to Wisconsin's folklore and concluding with an up-to-date bibliography, this anthology offers more than fifty annotated and illustrated entries in five sections: "Terms and Talk," "Storytelling," "Music, Song, and Dance," "Beliefs and Customs," and "Material Traditions and Folklife." |
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... Land of Lincoln : Every spring , when the grass was high enough to afford pastures for (heir teams , large num- bers would come and do all the heavy hauling during the summer , over beautiful prairies furnishing all they could desire ...
... land . Curiously , while Rickaby found Wisconsin's " cultural frontier " epitomized in the folk ballads of William N. Allen , Frederick Jackson Turner drew fundamental inspiration from another William Allen — William F. Allen , one of ...
... lands of South Carolina in November 1863 to teach newly freed slaves in a school sponsored by the Educational Commission for Freedmen ( Epstein 1977 : 304-10 ) . There he became fascinated with the songs of former slaves and , in ...
... land County . Professor G. Humphrey ... was often a speaker and cattle judge during the Moquah Guernsey Fair Days , held yearly usually August 15 at Moquah . It was Profesor Humphrey that ac- quainted the Department of Rural Sociology ...
... land . In an era when emergency 911 systems have stimulated the conversion of local road names into numbers , only the elderly and the antiquarian may recall or care that West 18th Street was once the " Swamp Road " —especially since ...
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Part Two Storytelling | 111 |
Part Three Music Song and Dance | 189 |
Part Four Beliefs and Customs | 305 |
Part Five Material Traditions and Folklife | 387 |
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A Selected List | 522 |
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