Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574410369 ISBN 13: 9781574410365

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this Texas Folklore Society publication there are essays on teaching folklore for students—“How I Define Folklore for My Students,” “Toward a Definition of Folk Culture,” “Beginning Within: Teaching Folklore the Easy Way,” “Folklore Fieldwork on the Internet,” and others. Essays illustrating folklore are also included, such as “The Honored Dead: The Ritual of Police Burial,” “Gang Graffiti,” “Rail Tales: Some Are True,” “Dance Halls of East Texas,” “The Oil Field Camp,” “Tex-Mex Dialect or Gidget Goes to Acuna,” and more.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"This program on folklore pedagogy comes to you by popular demand. In an effort to define folklore at a meeting twenty-five years ago, after all the academic verbiage that generation of pedants flung about, Martha Emmons rose up in her tutorial majesty. She disgustedly looked at the members and the complicated mountain we had made out of a simple mole hill and said, 'Foldlore is what the word says it is! Folk is the people and lore is the learning. It is the learning of the people.' And that is pretty close." - Francis Edward Abernethy. Essays on teaching and defining folklore for students: "Class-room Definitions of Folklore," "How I Define Folklore for My Students," "Toward a Definition of Folk Culture," "Beginning Within: Teaching Folklore the Easy Way," "Folklore Fieldwork on the Internet," "Folklore and Cinema." Essays illustrating folklore: "The Honored Dead: The Ritual of Police Burial," "Meaner Than Hell!," "Gang Graffiti," "Gideon Lincecum, 'Killie Krankie,' and Fiddling in Early Texas," "The Bluebird Mare from Sterling City," "The Night the Stars Fell," "Rail Tales:Some are True," "Dance Halls of East Texas," "The Oil Field Camp," "Noises in the Attic: Adventures of Some Texas Ghosts," "Repo Man," "Tex-Mex Dialect or Gidget Goes to Acuna," "Punching Sticks, Flannel Wrapped Bricks, and Pink Powder Purgatives: Spring Rituals," "When Harley Sadler's Tent Show Came to Town," "Eating Over the Sink and Other Marital Strategies."

About the Author:

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas’ Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1574410369
• ISBN 13: 9781574410365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Abernethy Francis Edward
• Illustrator: Fisher Cynthia