| Description |
xiv, 673 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Race pride & folklore / Newbell Niles Puckett -- As crinkly as yours / Eldridge Cleaver -- My people! my people! / Zora Neale Hurston -- Negro folk cult / Harold Preece -- Backgrounds of folklore in Negro literature / Sterling A. Brown -- Negro writer in America : an exchange : Folk tradition / Stanley Edgar Hyman ; Change the joke & slip the yoke / Ralph Ellison -- Negro-white spiritual / D.K. Wilgus -- African influence on the music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- Residual African elements in the blues / Janheinz Jahn -- Jazz choreology / Gertude P. Kurath & Nadia Chilkovsky -- African tales amoung the North American Indians / Alan Dundes -- |
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Problems confronting the investigator of Gullah / Lorenzo D. Turner -- Americanisms that may once have been africanisms / David Dalby -- Designations for colored folk / H.L. Mencken -- Names of American Negro slaves -- On the grammer of Afro-American naming practices / J.L. Dillard -- Black ulysses in camp / Howard W. Odum -- Dialogues of the old & the new porter / A. Philip Randolph -- Technique of jive / Dan Burley -- Story in Harlem slang / Zora Neale Hurston -- Language of soul / Claude Brown -- Hidden language : ghetto children know what they're talking about / John M. Brewer -- Old-time Negro proverbs / J. Mason Brewer -- Old-time courtship conversation / Frank D. Banks & Portia Smiley -- Double meaning in the popular Negro blues / Guy B. Johnson -- |
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I can peep through muddy water & spy dry land : boasts in the blues / Mimi Clar Melnick -- The dozens : dialectic of insult / J. Dollard -- Playing the dozens / R.D. Abrahams -- Signifying / C. Mitchell-Kernan -- Toasts / W. Labov, P. Cohen, C. Robins, & J. Lewis -- Meet "Mr. Franklin" : an example of usage / Nathan & Joanne Kantrowitz -- Street Smarts / H. Rap Brown -- Conjuring & conjure-doctors / L. Herron & A.M. Bacon -- Superstitions & folklore of the south / C.W. Chesnutt -- Braziel Robinson possessed of two spirits / R. Steiner -- Mojo / Ruth Bass -- Little man / R. Bass -- Human hand threat / A.P. Randolph -- Contemporary patterns of malign occultism among Negroes in North Carolina / Norman E. Witten -- Symbiosis : case of Hoodoo & the numbers racket / G.J. McCall -- Romance of the Negro folk cry in America / W.L. James -- Negro "Shouts" from Georgia / R.W. Gordon -- Social implications of the Negro spiritual / J. Lovell -- Follow the drinking gourd / H.B. Parks -- I got the blues / A. Lomax -- Protest & irony in Negro folksong / R. Ames -- Social influences on jazz style : Chicago, 1920-30 / C. Hansen -- Acculturation of the delta Negro / S.C. Adams --Uncle Remus & the malevolent rabbit / B. Wolfe -- |
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High John de conquer / Z.N. Hurston -- Negro humor : John & Old Master / H. Oster -- Steel drivin' man / L.R. Harris -- Career of "John Henry" / R.M. Dorson -- Ba-ad Nigger / H.C. Brearley -- Ghostly legend of the Ku-Klux Klan / H.G. McWhiney & F.B. Simkins -- Caddy Buffers : legends of a middle-class Negro family in Philadelphia / K.L. Morgan -- Frontiers of humor : American vernacular dance / Marshall & Jean Stearns -- Humor as a technique in race conflict / J.H. Burma -- Jokes among southern Negroes : the revelation of conflict / A.J. Prange, Jr. & M.M. Vitols -- Jokes Negroes tell on themselves / L. Hughes -- Genital superiority in Oakland Negro folklore a theme / N.A. Eddington -- Jokes & black consciousness : a collections with interviews / P. Cross -- Suggestions for further reading in American Negro folklore. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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United States. |
| ISBN |
013603019X |
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9780136030195 |
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0136030017 paperback |
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9780136030010 paperback |
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